Amahi 7 installation

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Amahi 7 (Express-Disc)

  • The express-disc installation method is the primary installation method for Amahi 7 with Fedora 19 and as such, upgrades from prior versions of Fedora are not advised, since very much has changed since older versions of Fedora.
  • This installation method works with both physical and virtual machine systems.
  • Separate wiki articles are in the works for transitioning old storage/ shares to new installations.
  • Note that this installation is for x64 (64-bit) systems only.
  • also see Amahi 7 release notes

Installation Guide Video!

Please see the video tutorial for installation

Installation Guide

Please reference the Amahi Documentation

x86 / 32-Bit installations

Note that the Express disc is a x64 (64-bit) installation only.

For x86/32-bit installation intructions, see the Amahi 7 full DVD page.

GUI Installation

As a desktop environment is not installed. Please take a look at our GUI install wiki page for this.

Web App Feature Work Around

Currently there is no option for Adding a web share / app manually like in Amahi 6. Until the feature is available, those who need the feature can follow the guidance here.

Manual Greyhole Setup

Currently there is no Dashboard add-on to setup and configure Greyhole for Amahi 7. This must be done manually using the following guidance as root user:

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​yum -y install hda-greyhole​
  • Set up a mysql database and user to access it:
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​hda-create-db-and-user greyhole​
  • Load the database schema:
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​mysql -u greyhole -pgreyhole greyhole < /usr/share/greyhole/schema-mysql.sql​

Initialize the basic settings for Greyhole, configure /etc/greyhole.conf:

  • Change db_user and db_password to greyhole.
  • Add a line for each drive (go here for adding new hard drives) in the storage pool at the end of the file. The example below is for two drives:
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​storage_pool_directory = /var/hda/files/drives/drive2/gh, min_free: 10gb storage_pool_directory = /var/hda/files/drives/drive3/gh, min_free: 10gb​

NOTE: Although the /etc/greyhole.conf contents indicate storage_pool_drive, it should be storage_pool_directory. If you don't set it correctly, Greyhole will not work.

  • Now configure the number of copies per share. The example below sets the shares as follows:
    • Books for max copies (which is 1 for 2 drives)
    • Pictures for 1 copy (which is the same as max)
    • Movies for no copies
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​num_copies[Books] = 999 num_copies[Pictures] = 2 num_copies[Movies] = 1​

NOTE: For a system with 2 Greyhole drives, 1 copy is the max. The first Greyhole drive holds the master copy and the second a copy. The share will contain a symbolic link to the master.

  • In the Dashboard, Shares tab add the following to Extra Parameters for each share you will be configuring to use Greyhole:
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​dfree command = /usr/bin/greyhole-dfree vfs objects = greyhole​
  • Finally, enable greyhole permanently and start the service:
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​systemctl enable greyhole.service systemctl start greyhole.service​
  • You can monitor activity by watching /var/log/greyhole.log file:
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​tail -f /var/log/greyhole.log​