Michael, Xorcom can allow ssh. You didn't read the instructions properly (lord knows I didn't the first few dozen times).
When you insert the disk for the first time instead of typing linux or pressing enter to start the install type "expert"
This will halt the installation at each section to ask you various questions (most of which you can ignore) but it will allow you to install ssh and then you can continue the rest of the installation remotely.
And the other option is to let it install as it would standard, Go into the Menu and under Maintaince I think from mem and then install packages then you find ssh down under net and install it.
Done.
With regards to being out of date on * I can understand that but I would say that if it was a normal install it should be fairly simple to upgrade to current version. This is what I am going to try today. Hopefully they have not stripped out all the compile stuff from the install cause that will make it pointless.
Anyway if anyone is intrested I will let them know how I go.
David
Cheers, Dean (yeh one question I was able to answer).
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Graves Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 10:17 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] OS Choice ?
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:09:26 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Alex Brecher wrote:
Which Distro is the most commonly used distro with Asterisk please ?
I don't know which is most commonly used, but I can tell you which is the easiest to install if you're going to install the OS from scratch anyway and plan to use it with Asterisk:
"Xorcom Rapid is a Debian/Asterisk distribution program that includes
an
auto-install and special auto-configuration features. It quickly and effortlessly converts any PC to a functioning Asterisk PBX..."
Since I had to rebuild my * server over the weekend I had a go with this Xorcom thingy. It pretty much did as it promised, with minimal user interaction it created a working * installation with a handy text mode shell. However, being a Linux newbie I found that it lacked a few basic things that I needed to make it work for me...most significantly the ability to use SSH to connect from my desktop transfer config files and otherwise and administer *. Had I been able to do that I would probably have tried it out for a while.
Oh, also the version of * it installed was quite old...CVS 5/11/04 if I recall. That was also a major concern.
If I have to build a new server for my home office some time in the future I'll try the AstLinux ISO which is an embedded version of Gentoo with Asterisk 1.0. Runs on PC Engines WRAP boards.
Michael
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