<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/7/5 Iain Bullard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iain.bullard@gmail.com" target="_blank">iain.bullard@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 5 July 2012 10:33, Frans Meulenbroeks <<a href="mailto:fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com">fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 2012/7/5 cnxsoft <<a href="mailto:cnxsoft@cnx-software.com">cnxsoft@cnx-software.com</a>><br>
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>> Ah, that explains the problem.<br>
>> You should not run the graphical installer. This is not supported yet as<br>
>> there are still some issues with it.<br>
>> After running<br>
>> sh install-amahi<br>
>> it will ask you to reboot. At that point all is installed and you should<br>
>> be able to browse to <a href="http://hda" target="_blank">http://hda</a> (or if that is not properly working you<br>
>> could try <a href="http://localhost" target="_blank">http://localhost</a> )<br>
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>> You still might be able to give it a try with the current install, but as<br>
>> I am not sure what changes the graphical installer made, so I would suggest<br>
>> a reinstall to be safe.<br>
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>> BTW feel free to ping me on irc in #amahi or #arm-netbook (but when at<br>
>> work I have limited time),<br>
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>> Frans<br>
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>> I went to <a href="http://localhost:2000" target="_blank">http://localhost:2000</a>, right after both <a href="http://hda" target="_blank">http://hda</a> and<br>
>> <a href="http://localhost" target="_blank">http://localhost</a> failed, as I could see that address in the log.<br>
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> Ah ok.<br>
> Do you by any chance have the install log handy. If so I'd appreciate a<br>
> copy.<br>
> I've seen <a href="http://hda" target="_blank">http://hda</a> not working. If that happens typicall DNS points to<br>
> your ISP or router or so and not to the box itself (it runs a dns server so<br>
> you can go to <a href="http://hda" target="_blank">http://hda</a> etc)<br>
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</div>Why not create an entry in /etc/hosts for hda during your install<br>
process? Then even if the user is using DNS from their ISP or router<br>
(both of which are very common) the name resolver will use /etc/hosts<br>
first.<br>
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In fact, if the systems' hostname is 'hda' then the entry should<br>
already be configured on most linux distributions.<br>
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Installing a DNS server just for a single local alias seems like<br>
overkill, though maybe you've got other uses for it.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div>Rationale for using DNS is that you can also use it from other systems (very nice in the server case; aim is that this could be a server in your utility closet without even having a local screen on it).<br>
Also amahi has several hosts running. E.g. if you install bittorrent you could browse to <a href="http://bttorrent">http://bttorrent</a> or so to go to the web mgmt interface of your bittorrent client.<br>Similar for <a href="http://cups">http://cups</a>, <a href="http://blog">http://blog</a> etc etc. <br>
Virtually every server running on the hda has its own web interface running as a virtual host in apache and exposes its name through dns. <br></div></div><br>Frans<br>