Things are in place, and so it's now time to send out the official 'this is the step by step way to do it' notes of how to install openafs on a 7x release. I am saying 7x, and not Fermi Linux 7x because these instructions will work for all of the RedHat 7x releases, and all of the Fermi Linux 7x releases. This also works on the Mandrake 8x releases. If you already have some form of AFS installed and it's working properly for you, then you have no need to upgrade. These instructions are for those who do not have AFS currently installed, and would like it installed. 1 - Find out what kernel you are currently using. /bin/uname -r Use just the number part (if you have something like 2.4.9-31smp, don't worry about the smp). Also, for step 3, to get the kernel name, drop the periods, and change the - to a period. So 2.4.9-31 would be 249.31 2 - FTP to fermi's openafs area, for 7x releases ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/contrib/openafs/7x/ 3 - Get the following rpm's. openafs-1.2.3-FL711..i386.rpm openafs-client-1.2.3-FL711..i386.rpm openafs-kernel-1.2.3-..i386.rpm Substitute with the highest number you see there. Substitue with results from step 1. Substitute with what distribution you got your kernel from - FL=Fermi Linux, RH=RedHat MD=Mandrake. So for the vast majority of people running Fermi Linux, you would get openafs-1.2.3-FL711.2.i386.rpm openafs-client-1.2.3-FL711.2.i386.rpm openafs-kernel-1.2.3-FL249.31.2.i386.rpm 4 - End FTP session *Do the following steps as root* 5 - Make sure you don't have afs-fermi installed rpm -q afs-fermi 5a - If you do have afs-fermi installed, remove it. rpm -e afs-fermi 6 - Install the openafs rpm's rpm -Uvh openafs* 7 - Start service. 7a - If you are sure you didn't have AFS running when you started /etc/init.d/afs start 7b - If you had to remove afs-fermi, or might have had openafs-fermi installed /sbin/reboot