	WARNING
	Recommended only for Advanced users, proceed with caution. Amahi 8 IS NOT PRODUCTION ready (ALPHA release ONLY)! Welcome help with testing and request feedback in bug #1661.

This page is about the ALPHA release of Amahi 8 (Fedora 21).

Prerequisites

Ensure your system meets the minimum requirements for Amahi before proceeding (NOTE: 64-bits ONLY)

Server Network Install and LIVE Workstation DVD may work, but ONLY full Server DVD with minimal install is officially supported

Install Fedora

Install Fedora 21 minimal ... NOT the Desktop:
- Boot, choose Install Fedora, choose language; then in software selection choose minimal install
- This is NOT the default and is at the bottom of the list. Don't forget to remove the DVD after installing and before rebooting.
Choose a proper hard drive partitioning scheme: THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. Avoid LVM and set extra disks separatly
DON'T change the hostname (it may create issues)
Click on Begin Installation and the installer will proceed
Create a user with a password. Make sure it's an admin user. Recommend creating a root password.
After a minimal install one needs to login as root first (in a text console)
Login with the user and become root for the rest of the installation

 sudo su -

  rpm -Uvh http://f21.amahi.org/noarch/hda-release-6.9.0-1.noarch.rpm

  yum -y install mariadb-libs mariadb-server

Try installing both hda-ctl and hda-platform. This should install a lot of dependencies with them

   yum -y install hda-ctl hda-platform

If that works, and only if that works, do the Amahi install (also as root; replace YOUR-INSTALL-CODE with the code you set up in Amahi.org):

  hda-install YOUR-INSTALL-CODE

If that fails, check the Express Disc troubleshooting page. For help, please fpaste the log (you may have to yum -y install fpaste). The log should be in

 /root/hda-install-*.log

It will boot with the static IP you preconfigured in the Amahi control panel
You can verify if the dashboard is available by accessing from any client using the IP address.
It's strongly recommended that you turn off the previous DHCP server and let Amahi handle DHCP so that DNS falls into place
Reboot all the clients to get them to use your Amahi server
Your Amahi dashboard should be available at http://hda
The first time it will initialize and will ask you to login to create a dashboard password for the admin user you created

Server Full DVD Headless (2.1GB download)
- Installed Amahi 8 without issues
Workstation Live DVD Desktop (1.5GB)
- Not configurable for minimal install
- Install and start OpenSSH server
  - yum -y install openssh-server
  - systemctl enable sshd.service
  - systemctl start sshd.service
- SSH into OS to complete install steps
- Installed Amahi 8 without issues
Server Netinstall CD Headless (440MB)
- May take longer to install depending on internet connection speed as packages are downloaded from Fedora repositories
- Installed Amahi 8 without issues

NOTE: USB install using the above methods has not been tested.

There are several ways to help:

If you are a contributor, make sure you get a machine running with Amahi 8 and get your apps to run on it
If you want to test the install, get a VM and an ISO file of the base OS and let's test! This is probably the best way to help without deep technical knowledge.
If you want to help with the platform, get in the Amahi Mailing list and get some patches going. Ruby and RoR can help here.
Testing and porting themes will also help
Want to develop a new theme? Check the How to Create a new Theme page
Stop by and hang out on our IRC Channel #Amahi on irc.freenode.net