[OpenAFS] afs server from scratch on linux

Paul Blackburn mpb@est.ibm.com
Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:54:11 +0000


If you want to know about the first-time configuration of a new AFS cell,
then the following logfile shows the sequence of events.
(This example is Transarc AFS on AIX.)

http://www.angelfire.com/hi/plutonic/logs/mk_afs_srv

I hope this helps.
--
cheers
paul                      http://acm.org/~mpb

Walters Justin Peter wrote:

>Would anyone who has installed OpenAFS (server) onto linux (preferrably
>slackware) be willing to give me some hints?
>
>One problem I'm having is with the lack of consistency between the
>documentation and the actual current source code.  I'm to the point where
>it pretty much looks like I have to line-by-line go through
>afsinstall/bin/AFSinstall and figure out what the hell is going on.  I've
>read through the documentation.  It simply doesn't work...  I know this is
>vague, but the point is I don't know where to start.  I have all the
>partitions and stuff setup.. a machine completely dedicated to this.. but
>now that it comes to running the install scripts, they don't really work,
>and I'm not even sure which ones to run because the documentation isn't
>very up-to-date.
>
>So would any veteran of a linux install be able to point me in the right
>direction?  Perhaps a little story about how you got it running, little
>nuances that set you apart from the more common non-linux install?
>
>thanks in advance for any attention.  also I'm curious as to whether the
>documentation is ever going to receive as much attention as the code is.
>
>Justin
>
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