Openfiler v1.1pre7-beta2 installation instructions

Openfiler v1.1pre7-beta2 requires Fedora Core 3 test 3. Other releases are incompatible. You may find this release's ISO images on various mirrors.

1. Fedora Core 3 test 3 installation (other releases are incompatible)

Select the expert type install
Select custom install
When you reach the Disk Druid, select manual partitioning mode
Create /boot filesystem of size 128MB; it should be a primary partition, and the filesystem should be of type Ext3
Create swap partition of size equal to the amount of physical memory in the system
Create / (root) filesystem of size 16384MB minimum; it should be a primary partition, and the filesystem should be of type Ext3
Create LVM physical volume(s) of the rest of the free disk space. Then create a new LVM volume group called `openfiler' (without the quotes), and add the LVM physical volumes to it.
Select Grub (the default) as boot loader
Configure networking; do not use DHCP, but manually configure an IP address; set the hostname
Set firewall to lowest security level (no firewall); Turn off SELinux completely if you are asked to configure it.
Configure system clock to your desired setting (system clock should use UTC)
Do not configure any network user directories (go with default setting)
Install all packages (Everything)
After the package installation is complete, you can create a boot disk if you want to
Optionally setup X configuration
Select text type login
Exit from the installer; the machine will reboot

2. Openfiler software installation

Please note that the following steps will install various RPMs which will change the system configuration significantly from a default Fedora Core install configuration. Especially the openfiler RPM will modify many global system configuration files.

When the Fedora Core 3 test 3 system has booted after install, login as root and check to see if the dm_mod (LVM2 disk mapper) module has loaded by using the lsmod command. This module would have loaded if you had created the openfiler volume group properly during installation of Fedora Core 3 test 3.

# lsmod | grep "dm_mod"
dm_mod                 46677  0
#

Synchronize system date/time to an internet timeserver using the following command:
```
ntpdate time.nist.gov
```
Sync hardware clock using the following command:
```
hwclock -w
```
Untar the Openfiler distribution tarball in /root/ using the following commands; su - runs a login shell as the super-user (root):
```
su -
cd /root/
gzip -dc /path/to/openfiler-release-1.1pre7-beta2.tar.gz | tar xvf -
```

Next install/update the patched binary RPMs in the packages/ directory using the following command:

cd /root/openfiler-release-1.1pre7-beta2/packages/FC3test3/RPMS/i386/
rpm -Uvh --oldpackage *.rpm

Execute the following command:
```
authconfig --kickstart --openfiler
```
If you get a bad argument error, retract your steps.
Now reboot the machine. This will allow it to start some necessary system services and turn off any conflicting system services.

Now visit https://ip.address.of.server:446/ (port 446 on the server using the Secure HTTP protocol). Login with 'openfiler' as the username and 'password' as the password (without the quotes). You can change the password in the 'Accounts' section.

You can then read the administration guide to learn about setting up your storage.

Support resources

We want to hear bug reports, if any of you get this working with the installation instructions. There is a mailing list for bug reports and support: https://lists.xinitsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users

We welcome developers to participate in development too. The associated list is: https://lists.xinitsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-devel

You may contact us for commercial purposes if you are:

A customer requiring commercial pay-support
A hardware vendor interested in selling Openfiler on your hardware
A probable sponsor interested in investing in or acquiring the project