[OpenAFS] Install help

Harri Haataja harri.haataja@cs.Helsinki.FI
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:41:29 +0200


On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:29:34PM -0500, John Davin wrote:
> I'm trying to install OpenAFS on my Red Hat 7.2 system so that I can
> access the AFS system at Carnegie Mellon.
> However, I'm confused about what I have to do - the documentation on
> openafs.org refers to an AFS CD-ROM (which I don't have) and doesn't at
> all mention the openafs rpm's that are on the site.
> I don't need to recompile my kernel do I?  I hope not, because then I'm
> not going to bother with it.
> 
> Can I just use the rpm's listed under Red Hat 7.2 in downloads?  Which
> ones do I need?  I already installed openafs-1.2.2-rh7.2.1.i386.rpm but
> that didn't seem to do much, I assume I need openafs-client too.  Where
> are afs directories mounted on my computer (ie. how will I know when it's
> working)?

BTW last I looked The important one, *source* rpm was missing from that
dir.

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