[Asterisk-Users] Need basic help getting started

[Chip G]

I have followed the instructions on the asterisk web
site to checkout the three files using CVS. I then
followed the instructions for make <filename> ; make
install in each directory. There seemed to be a lot of
error info flashing across the screen during each of
the processes. 

I have verified that I meet the basic requirements
linux kernel, openssl, readline with the appropriate
devel packages installed. Is there someplace to find
better documentation to get started. My objective is
to try asterisk out using nothing more that my Red Hat
8.0 Linux machine and a couple of Windows 2000 PCs
running Netmeeting. Is this possible? Is there decent
documentation someplace to get me started?

Thanks!
Chip

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