[Asterisk-Users] OS Choice ?

[David Uzzell]

dean collins wrote:
> Michael,
> Xorcom can allow ssh. You didn't read the instructions properly (lord
> knows I didn't the first few dozen times).
> 
> When you insert the disk for the first time instead of typing linux or
> pressing enter to start the install type "expert"
> 
> This will halt the installation at each section to ask you various
> questions (most of which you can ignore) but it will allow you to
> install ssh and then you can continue the rest of the installation
> remotely.


And the other option is to let it install as it would standard, Go into 
the Menu and under Maintaince I think from mem and then install packages 
then you find ssh down under net and install it.

Done.

With regards to being out of date on * I can understand that but I would 
say that if it was a normal install it should be fairly simple to 
upgrade to current version. This is what I am going to try today. 
Hopefully they have not stripped out all the compile stuff from the 
install cause that will make it pointless.

Anyway if anyone is intrested I will let them know how I go.

David



> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Dean
> (yeh one question I was able to answer).
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michael
> Graves
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 10:17 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] OS Choice ?
> 
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:09:26 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> 
> 
>>Alex Brecher wrote:
>>
>>>Which Distro is the most commonly used distro with Asterisk please ?
>>
>>I don't know which is most commonly used, but I can tell you which is 
>>the easiest to install if you're going to install the OS from scratch 
>>anyway and plan to use it with Asterisk:
>>
>>"Xorcom Rapid is a Debian/Asterisk distribution program that includes
> 
> an 
> 
>>auto-install and special auto-configuration features. It quickly and 
>>effortlessly converts any PC to a functioning Asterisk PBX..."
> 
> 
> Since I had to rebuild my * server over the weekend I had a go with
> this Xorcom thingy. It pretty much did as it promised, with minimal
> user interaction it created a working * installation with a handy text
> mode shell. However, being a Linux newbie I found that it lacked a few
> basic things that I needed to make it work for me...most significantly
> the ability to use SSH to connect from my desktop transfer config files
> and otherwise and administer *. Had I been able to do that I would
> probably have tried it out for a while.
> 
> Oh, also the version of * it installed was quite old...CVS 5/11/04 if I
> recall. That was also a major concern.
> 
> If I have to build a new server for my home office some time in the
> future I'll try the AstLinux  ISO which is an embedded version of
> Gentoo with Asterisk 1.0. Runs on PC Engines WRAP boards.
> 
> Michael
> 
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