[OpenAFS] afs server from scratch on linux

[Marc Schmitt]

Hi Justin,

The AFS docs on Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openafs.xml) was 
what I used to set up my first cell.

Greetz
     Marc

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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