On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:46 AM, JJ <jjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am trying to follow the direction at > http://ceph.newdream.net/wiki/Installing_on_RedHat_or_CentOS > > This is my 3rd or 4th attempt trying to install ceph on 2 different OSs, > (CentOS 5.[57] and Ubuntu 11.10 > > Lately, on CentOS 5.5, the boost-devel 1.33.1 comes installed. > I found a repo that has boost-devel* 1.39 and upgraded my system to that > release. > > the part that fails at > http://ceph.newdream.net/wiki/Installing_on_RedHat_or_CentOS is the > instruction titled ""Building ceph itself" / "git checkout -b rc origin/rc" > complains with > "fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching > branches. > "Did you intend to checkout 'origin/rc' which can not be resolved as > commit?" Ah; those instructions are out of date. I've updated them to point at the "stable" branch. Try: git checkout -b stable origin/stable :) > I don't know git or it's particulars. > > Is 64bit architecture a requirement? Nope! > Is fuse* a requirement? (modprobe fuse doesn't issue any warnings) Nope! Although you will have an easier time with the FUSE client than the kernel client on a CentOS machine. > Where can I find a more detailed list of requirements? I don't know that there are any; generally we expect people to use the packages if they want the dependencies to auto-resolve. :) There are packages for Ceph but I'm not sure what state they're in; somebody else will have a better idea! -Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
