Amahi on Fedora 14 Alpha Testing!

Fedora 14

Fedora 14 was released a few hours ago and we got a small flood of requests asking if it’s working. It’s getting there! 🙂

We found an issue in Fedora 14 upstream that caused the Amahi installer to crash. We’re working around it and we’d like to release it for your testing.

Please see this thread on how to start testing Amahi on Fedora 14!

Many thanks go to bigfoot65 for the quick turn-around in isolating critical issues!

A few things will change, so we ask that you do not put this in a “production” system.

Cheers and happy hacking!

Carlos

17 comments

  1. LGSONE Nov 6

    Sign me up. The day fedora 14 came out I upgrade my machine from 13. Amahi had issues with 13 as it does with 14. I had to do quite a bit with ruby to get it to install with out errors that yum would find. Ruby-docs was an issue. The problem I had with Amahi on 13 and now 14 was the apps page from the hda control panel and webapps not showing up properly. I have it on a Dell Poweredge 700 2.8Ghz, 2 gig ram, 1 160gb OS drive and 1 2TB storage drive. System is now had all the packages upgraded to 14 and yum doesn’t have any issues with upgrades and the installed packages. I am in the home automation business and this has some VERY cool features that I have begun to work on integrating into my home and into several systems for testing on production homes. So, let me know what is required and I’ll do my best to contribute.

    LGSONE
    Lance G. Stafford

  2. Chris Guay Nov 6

    Sign me up! been through WHS, FREENAS,the AMAHI, then back to freenas, now back on AMAHI. I’d love to try the new version…

  3. ScubaDOg Nov 6

    Sweet! I will dev this appliance. I have a few issues with it though, the main one being that I already have a DNS server in my network. This appliance does not really play well in a already setup environment as it wants to be the ns1. Also IMO with it trying to do so much to be a dhcp/dns it really makes it hard to integrate in a Corp style setup. Lastly it really needs iscsi, sshfs &/or NFS support to make it play well with a NAS/SAN as allot of people will hve already set this up for other storage needs and will want to play media on already existing infostructure. All that being said you have space on my ESX server for dev.

    :0)

  4. Ray Nov 6

    If I can run a stable Amahi server on Fedora 12 I have a seperate box I can run Fedora 14 with Amahi beta. I’d prefer not run DHCP server in beta

  5. Raymond Nov 6

    Well… will give it a try on the HP Microserver

  6. cpg Nov 8

    Hi, we updated the deps the f14 repo, to hopefully bring in all the passenger deps.

    If you guys can install from scratch, I think we’re down to pressing “continue” in the big “dependency missing” screen. Next step is to take care of the that dependency page!

    Please report back 🙂

  7. cpg Nov 8

    Hey, we updated the repo further to hopefully take care of all the dependencies. Let us know how it goes now!

  8. LGSONE Nov 10

    Fresh install last night of fc 14 and Amahi and NO problems, not a one with the new repo’s, keep em coming, great guys, fun stuff..

    LGSONE

  9. jpgus Nov 10

    Same here, fresh install yesterday with no problems at all!
    Nice work!

  10. cpg Nov 10

    Awesome! Thanks for the reports!

    Now that things are fairly stable, we will introduce a major change to the platform to “future proof” it and see how it plays with the existing code.

    This is updating to the latest Ruby on Rails in the series (2.3.8) so that our transition into the latest (RoR 3.0.x) is smoother.

  11. Hunglikeaton Nov 18

    I was able to install Fedora 14 and Amahi without a hitch. Any guess when applications might be made available?

  12. Rolf Dec 8

    I am at rookie level with linux, but was looking for Home Server software.Found of course no open source and free software for windows, so kept looking and found out about amahi via google. And because I only like newest distros I did a fresh install of f14 with amahi six days ago. Untill now not many problems, system seem to work fine. Only thing is that I cannot install any apps and I have some issues with vista backup tool and amahi/hda path were I want to save backup. I hope official amahi on fedora will soon come, but for now I will use cuurent setup. Great program and nice features and easy to use GUI via browser.

  13. phils Jan 2

    I have two Amahi servers running one on Fedora-12 and the other Fedora-14 is running on ubuntu 10.10 as a KVM virtual machine with bridged networking. It took me three times to get it right with a static IP address.

    I can access both servers from any PC on my network
    On the Fedora14 server:
    1 – I can add users
    2 – I can add shares
    3 – No Apps available
    4 – Since this is a virtual machine I turned off grayload
    5 – DHCP did not start which is good otherwise I would have disabled it.

    FYI: If your motherborad and CPU can support Virtualization
    then I recommend KMV/QEMU rather than VMWARE or Virtualbox.
    This is a great tool for testing and production.

    I spent a few days trying to get KVM/QEMU working on Fedora14 with no luck. After reading many articles on line I switched to Ubuntu 10.10 and was able to get KVM working. I installed the server first then added the gnome desk top.

    I also have Linux Mint 10 running as a virtual machine as well.

    I have installed and reinstalled Fedora14 three times without affecting my base server.

  14. Matt Wu Jan 4

    Hi, I’m new to Amahi, so I might as well start with Fedora 14, but the live CD install doesn’t give me the option to configure additional repository, and after install, I can’t add repository in the add/remove software tool. Any idea how to add the Amahi repository after Fedora live cd install?

  15. cpg Jan 4

    @MattWu … The Live CD is not supported. Install from the full DVD.

  16. cpg Jan 4

    @phils Nice setup. I probaly should get me one setup just like that for testing!

  17. Tim Jan 14

    Installed without issue on 01/09/2011. Everything works as expected (adding users, shares, etc.) and I am looking forward to the release of some apps.
    Thanks.

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