[asterisk-doc] I am new to asterisk..Please help me..

[Peter Beckman]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Hameed, Mian F wrote:

> On July 13, 2006 Peter Beckman wrote:
>> Then install asterisk.
>>    http://mph.gotdns.com:82/manual/en/install.unix.redhat.php
>> And then have two soft phones communicate.
>>  Could be here, eventually:
>>     http://mph.gotdns.com:82/manual/en/tutorial.php
>> Basic trouble shoot
>>  Could go here, or create a new "Troubleshooting" faq:
>>      http://mph.gotdns.com:82/manual/en/faq.using.php
>
> On July 13, 2006 Randolph Resnick wrote:
>> There are two or three sites that do exactly that.....
>> 1) http://automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm
> 2>) http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/07/03/asterisk.html
> 3)> http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/
>
> Here is my question. If all is there then how come a new person can't
> run asterisk w/o a pain; at a minimum? May be all of the above was not
> read????
>
> On July 12, 2006 Mian Hameed Wrote:
>> There is not a single startup document that I was aware of when I was
>> setting up asterisk that will help you set up asterisk on the fly.
>
> This is exactly my point. You have to go four different places to get
> things done, only if you get lucky and I did go on a search pilgrimage
> when I was doing mine.... what an unpleasant experience it was. (Great,
> at least it is there NOW or did I miss it. I see progress). I proposed
> before that it should be one document and make it a lab exercise w/o
> mistakes and make asterisk a pleasurable learning experience. I agree
> with Ira, I cannot get quality help from most of these docs, so I read
> it twice that made me dangerous enough and my life went on. This is from
> an IT guy who has also taught calc in a University for 7 years as a
> passion and not as a career. I exactly knew where my students would get
> lost. I see what Ira is saying.

  Since Asterisk can do sooo many things, I think it might make more sense
  to build a dialplan respository where people can post working dialplans
  and other configs as an example.  That's not so much a documentation
  issue.

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