Explain to me like a 5 year old.

[tomtheappraiser]

OK, I got Amahi 7.1 setup on a new 240 GB SSD. I have a number of problems:
1) On the server I have a motherboard that setup up a RAID 5 via bios consisting of 3 2 TB HD.
The start screen of Bios shows the healthy RAID 5 array, but when I go to the dashboard it shows it as 3 drives. Now, I've been looking for help on this and everyone is talking about software RAIDS and how to add them to Amahi. ???? What about hardware arrays?
2) I'm running Windows 8.1 on my desktop. I originally had my computers networked through Windows Homegroups (HATED THAT SYSTEM!).
So, when I go to windows explorer, it doesn't even show the 240 SSD for the server, only my desktop. How do I get it to recognize the server?

Thanks for your help and patience in advance.

[bigfoot65]

This RAID 5 wiki article might help. Most users don't use RAID since Greyhole can be easily integrated with Amahi.

[tomtheappraiser]

I read that...I have no idea where to type any of the stuff. When I go to the physical server screen and login and try typing that I get a password query when I enter su-
I get bash - fdisk-1: command not found when I type in fdisk-1
I get -bash - unmount/dev/sdb: No such file or directory when I type in the same.
My dashboard shows my 3 drives in my RAID exactly how the example on the tutorial shows.

[bigfoot65]

I get a password query when I enter su-

This would be the password you created for root on Amahi install.

I get bash - fdisk-1: command not found when I type in fdisk-1

This command should work. Try

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fdisk --help

and see if it works.

I get -bash - unmount /dev/sdb: No such file or directory when I type in the same.

If you enter

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ls -al /dev/sd*

you should see where your drives are mounted. Did you mount your drives, following adding a second hard drive to your HDA?
With Windows Explorer, you can only see shares on your HDA. That can be done as documented in the storage and file sharing wiki article.

Hope this helps.

[tomtheappraiser]

OK, I'm going to try this in the morning (US Central). I'll get back to you if I get confused and mark solved if I figure it out.
Thanks again for your help.

[bigfoot65]

No problem. Good luck!

[tomtheappraiser]

OK, I finally had some time to try and tackle this.
I got through step 6 of the RAID 5 wiki. It's the first thing I tackled since I figured I couldn't add the raid drive until it was configured.
When I got to step 7, the wiki said that it will take a while to format but, it only took a minute. This is what it said:

mke2fs 1.42.7 (21-Jan-2013)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=128 blocks, Stripe width=256 blocks
244178944 inodes, 976690944 blocks
48834547 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296
29807 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

Then when I entered this: mdadm --detail --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf
Nothing happened, just another command line.
Then I entered this : mv /var/hda/files/* /dev/md0
mv: target ‘/dev/md0’ is not a directory

So, I'm kinda stuck.

Also I noticed the next couple of steps involve editing a file. I'm wondering if that's going to be possible for my skill level. If not, could you point me top any sites I could get caught up on it?

Here is the wiki I am using for the RAID 5:
https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/RAID_5

[bigfoot65]

Not sure how up-to-date the wiki guidance is for RAID. Recommend you do some searching on the internet. This is not an area we have much experience. We encourage these types of tutorials only for advanced users.

[jkbuckethead]

I get a password query when I enter su-

This would be the password you created for root on Amahi install.

I am also having trouble logging into root to add drives. The official Amahi installation youtube video says you don't need to create a root password if you set the user as an administrator. I did this, and when I type "su -" for root, the system does not accept my user password. I get "su: Authentication failure" even though I typed the same password I just used to login.

Is there a way to add a root password, or do I need to redo the install?

[bigfoot65]

You can do the following to access root user:

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sudo su -

If you want to set a root password, you can do it after that step by doing:

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passwd