[asterisk-users] Upgrade Procedure

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Noah Miller wrote:
>> You have to first uninstall your Asterisk1.2 like this--
>>
>> First you have to stop your asterisk...using--
>>
>> 1. killall -9 asterisk or killall -9 safe_asterisk, whichever you are using.
> 
> In my experience, you don't need to do this step.  In fact, you can
> keep the old asterisk running, compile and install asterisk 1.4 on top
> of it.  Then issue a "restart when convenient" command from the
> asterisk 1.2 prompt, and Asterisk 1.4 will come up after the restart.

The problem with this is that the upgraded Zaptel will not be active. 
Compile and install Zaptel, LibPRI and Asterisk (in the order), then 
stop asterisk, unload the zaptel drivers, then load everything.