[Asterisk-Users] debian install zaptel

[Duane]

Steven Critchfield wrote:

> The distro itself doesn't stop you from running asterisk, or really make
> it that much harder to install. 

I'd been to the redhat world tour night in Sydney the night before and a 
friend wanted help setting up a server to run asterisk on, I'd picked up 
a fedora cd that night with the intension of trying it some time and 
kind of worked out well in that respect. Needless to say given a chance 
not to use fedora/redhat I'll take it every time.

Anyways I start to install Fedora, and told it to install the kernel etc 
during install, which it thought it had, but it hadn't and there was no 
way in hell I could get it to install it or uninstall it and dumped it 
for debian and literally had it up and running within minutes. I also 
asked for the shell browser etc to be installed but it wasn't till well 
after I found out redhat had no symlink to links from lynx (I've used 
lynx since as long as I've been using linux) so I guess they dumbed it 
down too much for users of other distro's to jump off the deep end with 
it, and force you to install a gui to get anywhere with it...

For those people wanting step by step instructions on a debian box with 
asterisk...

http://www.asterisk.net.au

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  Duane

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