Amahi 8 Install

NOTE: Ensure your system meets the minimum requirements for Amahi before proceeding. Currently there is NO Express CD/DVD available.

Download the Fedora DVD

NOTES:

• 32-bits IS NOT available nor supported in Amahi 8
• You need to install Fedora 21 first (minimal, if headless is desired, which is what we recommend) before installing Amahi 8 on it

First, download the Fedora 21 Server DVD for 64 bit (1.91GB), preferably using torrents

• Torrents:
  • Primary: Fedora 21 Server 64-bit (torrent)
  • Alternate: Fedora 21 Server 64-bit (torrent)

• Direct http download:
  • Primary: Fedora 21 Server 64-bit (http)
  • Alternate: Fedora 21 Server 64-bit (http)

Install

Fedora

• Boot, choose Install Fedora, choose language
• Choose the hard drive partitioning scheme

* This is important. ONLY select one drive, and avoid LVM

• 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.
• Once install completes, don't forget to remove the DVD after installing and before rebooting.
• Upon reboot, login with the user and become root for the Amahi installation

 sudo su -

Amahi

• Install Amahi repo:

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

• Get the mariadb base packages (this is to avoid dependency conflicts)

  yum -y install mariadb-libs mariadb-server

• Install Amahi platform (NOTE: Should install several packages)

   yum -y install hda-ctl hda-platform

• If there are no errors, install Amahi (Replace YOUR-INSTALL-CODE with install code from the Amahi web site):

  hda-install YOUR-INSTALL-CODE

• If all goes well, it should tell you to reboot

Expectations

• It will boot with the static IP you pre-configured 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, ask you to login, and enter a dashboard password for the admin user created earlier
• Optional refer to Greyhole to install/configure storage pooling.