[Asterisk-Users] Best platform

[Mike M]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:06:52PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 08:19:58AM -0400, Mike M wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 02:03:59PM +0200, Michiel van Baak wrote:
> > > On 13:22, Sat 11 Jun 05, Serge Schumacher wrote:
> > > > What platform should you suggest to use asterisk ?
> > > 
> > > I love the way the Debian updates work.
> > 
> > Me too, but has the installation improved with the latest Sarge release?
> 
> It sure has. The installer generally automates most of the necessary
> tasks.

I'll definitely try it out soon.
> 
> > The announcement claims there are improvements.  Debian has been
> > extremely slow to improve it installer.
> 
> Not improvements. A total rewrite, and a very good one. The new
> installer is much better. Not to mention much more modular. It does
> increase the memory requirements to 24MB, but I hope most folks here can
> live with that.

Nuts! My CPU with 16Mb is obsolete now.
> 
> Memory requrements for an installer are usually for a large enough
> ramdisk that is extracted before a swap partition on the disk is
> availble. Naturally you can always "manually" install a system using a
> chroot from another system.
> 
> > 
> > I used CentOS 3.4 on two recent Asterisk installs with no problems.
> 
> But why would an asterisk installation require so many manual steps?
> (if there are manbual steps, you will get some of them wrong).

The difficulty is self-inflicted: using GRUB instead of LILO and
a desire to have a minimal load.  Building Asterisk from a minimal load
let me get a first hand look at all the dependencies.  It boosted my
understanding of the system.  I can't say I recommend the procedure to
anyone needing to build more than one or two systems.

Thanks,
-- 
Mike