[Asterisk-Users] Difference between Asterisk and Asterisk@home

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:40:40AM -0500, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:

> >I tried astlinux 0.2.6 as well, however as a "live CD" it wasn't useful,
> >because I could not write any modified configuration on the live /etc .
> >Thus I could not run asterisk with the modified configuration without a
> >proper installation. 
> 
> 	Not quite...  By default, AstLinux (and the live cd) will copy a 
> default Asterisk configuration to a tmpfs filesystem where you can edit 
> it, you just can't save it anywhere (persistent across reboot) unless 
> you use a key disk.  /etc/asterisk is in fact just a link to 
> /tmp/etc/asterisk.  Did you actually try to write a file in 
> /etc/asterisk, or did you see that / was read-only and give up?  Did you 
> read the user guide?

Hmm, I remember I did. But it was a while ago...

> 
> 	However, the main changes with the 0.2.7 and later ISO image are 
> 	that the CD device is auto detected and the entire contents of the CD are 
> copied to RAM so that the configuration files can be edited and the CD 
> can be removed, that should make it more of a familiar "live cd" 
> environment.

That's even better. I'll try it next time. Thanks

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