Hi, Welcome to the linux-ha project source tree. There is a little documentation on setting things up for a HA failover system in the doc directory. The following things are among the more interesting docs: GettingStarted.html HardwareGuide.html Requirements.html faqntips.html nice_failback.txt rsync.html For building the system: If you have no idea what to do, then you should probably use the ConfigureMe to configure (and make, install, package, etc.) the software. ConfigureMe makes some educated guesses on how linux-ha ought to be installed by default on the current system type. If you have played with autoconf/automake packages before, then you can use the autogen.sh bootstrap script, or configure, etc. like normal. Due to the way that init directories are handled by heartbeat, make distcheck can be problematic. The following should allow this to run successfully, noting that gmake is often available as make: gmake DESTDIR="$PWD/heartbeat-@VERSION@/=inst" distcheck For more information on the project, see the web site at linux-ha.org. Information on joining mailing lists can be found at http://linux-ha.org/contact/ Enjoy! -- The Linux-Ha development team