[OpenAFS] Newbie, installation help needed.

[Matt Chipman]

AFS is called openafs-fileserver on Ubuntu 6.06 and debian etch so it 
definitely should be there.
apt-cache search openafs

 /usr/share/doc/openafs-server/readme.servers.gz is an excellent start 
giving you a step by step guide to installation.  Including the kernel 
modules problem below.

-Matt

Neil Woolstencroft wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a total newbie to AFS and I am completely stuck on the install.
>
> I need to familiarize myself with AFS and the client requires that 
> runs on
> Ubuntu 6.0.6, this is a two part question.
>
> I have read the documentation and it says that I have to create a 
> partition
> on / called /vicepXX, the XX will be replaced by AFS with letters. My 
> first
> question is:
>
> When i create the partition do i call it "/vicep" or do i literally 
> call it
> "/vicepXX" ?
>
> Second: I downloaded the latest source from openafs.org (the source code)
> since there is no distribution for Ubuntu, untared and did a 
> ./configure and
> I got these two errors:
>
>
> checking your OS... configure: WARNING: No usable linux headers found at
> /usr/src/linux so disabling kernel module linux checking your AFS 
> sysname...
> configure: error: Couldn't guess your Linux version. Please use the
> --with-afs-sysname option to configure an AFS sysname.
>
>
>
> I did a uname -a and this is what i get:
>
>
>
>
>
> root@ubuntu:/usr/sources/openafs-1.4.4# uname -a Linux ubuntu
> 2.6.15-26-server #1 SMP Thu Aug 3 04:09:15 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
>
>
>
> So, how should I proceed on the installation, if I use the switch
> --with-afs-sysname, what sysname should I use?
>
>
>
> Once the configure is done, what are the next steps to get it up and
> running? the documentation for linux assumes I am using the linux dist 
> not
> the source so I'm a little lost, if anyone can help me with a step by 
> step
> configuration it would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Neil W.
>