[Asterisk-Users] Newbie

[Steven P. Donegan]

Hmmm :-)

OK - grab a current RedHat Fedora Core 3 set of ISO's, install - about 2 
hours... Do the up2date gig - time depends on your network connection. 
Do a cvs based asterisk install - about 30 minutes (more than happy to 
share the scripts to do this). Total elapsed time <24 hours max. This 
doesn't mean you'll understand what you did - but it isn't rocket 
science....

If RedHat isn't interesting then go to the local store and buy 
Slackware, Debian (Novell?), etc - lots of choices....

The 'hard' part will be understanding the configuration of asterisk 
itself - and that is covered by masses of info on the wiki, folks here 
who will share, etc.

Email me directly - I'll be happy to try and assist...


Steven Critchfield wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 19:06 -0500, Doug Lytle wrote:
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>>Jeff Konrade-Helm wrote:
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>>>I'm hoping I can get the initial installation and configuration done in
>>>30-40 hours over two weekends and a few evenings. Does this sound
>>>reasonable? 
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>>Jeff,
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>>To tell the truth, this project is difficult enough for a Linux old 
>>timer to grasp, let alone someone that has no experience with the OS 
>>whatsoever.  30-40 hours to get basics running for Asterisk at your 
>>current level of experience is not really a good estimate.
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>>I would suggest picking a distro, getting at least comfortable on it's 
>>install before even considering this project.
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>Unless you are in the middle of the sticks, you should have a users
>group near by that will probably lend you a hand in getting the OS up
>and running. Then the fun with asterisk will begin. You may be able to
>call on the same people to help you out again.
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>If you can get help, you might pull off the 30-40 hours mark, but I
>would suspect quite a bit longer. Also you should become better
>acquainted with asterisk before you actually purchase your equipment.
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