[asterisk-users] Complete OS/Asterisk disk

[Steve Totaro]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Tzafrir Cohen
<tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:50:05PM +0000, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:
>> What options are available for installing an asterisk system onto a
>> bare-metal system ?
>>
>> Ones that I have seen:
>>
>> pbx-in-a-flash
>
> Builds from osurce but hides its build scripts. Good luck with fixing
> bugs there.
>
>> trixbox
>
> A binary distriubtion.
>
>> astlinux
>
> Builds everything from scratch. If you want to control everything (e.g.
> the kernel and libc), it might be the ideal solution.
>
>>
>> What I am trying to achieve is to be able to shove a cd / usb into a
>> machine and have it install asterisk, complete with my .conf files.
>>
>> I also need Cepstral installing.
>>
>
> The proecss is trivial to automate on just about anywhere. For
> instance, you can find my version of the bristuff build tarball at
>
>  http://updates.xorcom.com/astribank/bristuff/1.4/
>  http://updates.xorcom.com/astribank/bristuff/1.4/bristuff-0.4.0-RC4-xr5.tar.gz
>
> Check INSTALL.html / INSTALL for instructions.
>
> To fit your model, run:
>
>  ./download.sh
>
> copy the resulting directory to a CD / USB key, install the system, and
> on the target system run from that same tarball:
>
>  ./prereq.sh
>  ./compile.sh # also installs everything
>
> With a bit of work it would work well on your favourite distribution
> (and make it run automatically at the end of the installer)
>
>> Ideally, I would like to be able to mount an .iso file, chroot into it,
>> and update / compile / build whatever I need before burning the iso
>> file. This would allow me (for example) to update the asterisk 1.4
>> source as and when i desire.
>>
>> Does anyone know of anything that comes close to this ? I have tried
>> astlinux, but cannot seem to get curl and jabber working properly, and
>> haven't even tried to get Cepstral working :)
>>
>> Alternatively, is there any software that can turn an existing system
>> into a package / .iso that can then be installed on another machine ?
>
> If you package it into packages: yes. If not: yes, but you don't really
> want it. You should be able to adapt your installation to different
> environments, and not only to the specific partition size and colletion
> of devices that happened to be used where you installed.
>
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Easy Vox Box is the best CentOS 5.2/FreePBX ISO in my opinion.  It
installs webin, Samba, MyPHP, and other (possibly depending on your
preferences) very useful packages.

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