No Amahi installer after Fedora 14 full DVD install

[peaeater]

I installed Fedora 14 from a full DVD, following the instructions on the wiki at http://www.amahi.org/support/instructions to the letter. I added the http://f14.amahi.org Amahi repo where instructed, though it took 3 attempts. Once the install was complete, I booted into Fedora and no Amahi installer. The list of software sources did not list Amahi either (obviously).

Should I reinstall from the DVD or follow the instrxns to add Amahi to an existing Fedora install?

[bigfoot65]

That is odd. We have seen very little problems with the DVD install. You could try the existing Fedora 14 install guidance or start over.

Not sure what could be the problem. Might consider starting over from scratch versus the existing install. Also, if you could provide more detail, i.e. log files, that might help.

[slarty101]

I've got the same problem. When you follow the instructions posted above selecting the advised options (e,g. no GUI) on rebooting you just end up at the command prompt in a bash shell. ls gives 3 files;
anaconda-ks.cfg
install.log
install.log.syslog
and 1 directory (Desktop).

The Desktop directory contains 4 files;
AmahiInstaller.desktop
AmahiIRC.desktop
HDADasboard.desktop
HDASetup.desktop

Where do I go from here? Also during the Fedora install, it only asks you to create a root account not an additional user account. Have I done something wrong?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Sam.

[bigfoot65]

If you are doing a headless install with the DVD, then Amahi has no easy way of installing. The best avenue for headless is to use the Express CD.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Express_CD

The install instructions are for Desktop and not headless.

[slarty101]

I tried using the Express CD but it failed when trying to install the pcmia package IIRC. It was asking for a post installation code to be entered into a pop-up window. I tried a couple of obvious examples with no joy and then gave up. I'll try again tomorrow and see how I get on but failing that I'll try Fedora14 again but with the GUI.

Cheers,
Sam.

[dsyskowski]

I am having the same issue as Sam. I think the problem occurs right when we "unselect" the GUI desktop. The problem is that the instructions don't exactly correspond to what I see on the screen. There are four radio button choices. The default is GUI desktop but you can't unselect it without selecting something else. I forget what the other two choices are, but one mentioned web server. The last was minimal install. Not knowing what else to choose, I selected that one. I'm not interested in a headless operation but of course don't need all the usual things that accompany a Linux desktop install. I think I'll try one of the other options.

[bigfoot65]

If you want the GUI Desktop, best to follow the instructions. If you want to remove the other items you don't need after Amahi is installed and running, you can.

The full install does not take up that much hard drive space, maybe 4GB max at the most.

[dsyskowski]

Well, we were following the instructions which state not to install the GUI desktop. If I don't install the GUI my Fedora choices are web server, software development, and minimal. When I select minimal the system boots up into a terminal window and allows me to log in as root. And this is where the process deviates from the instructions. No prompt to create a new user.

I will be trying a full GUI install tonight so let's see if that yields any different result.

Is there any possibility that the particular DVD ISO I downloaded influences this process in any way? (I realize that these are Fedora issues but I have installed Fedora before without problem.) I picked the first US mirror site to get the full DVD install.

[bigfoot65]

I see where you got that now. I am thinking that may be an error. That should be optional, but best to install with desktop unless you want it headless.

[xerai]

Same problem for me: followed instructions very carefully and ended up at a command prompt and could not continue install by following the guide.

What do I do now, wipe the disks and start again? Would be nice of someone changed the guide so this doesnt happen to people following it in good faith