Hi everyone! I am not new to asterisk, but am new astlinux. Here is my story on getting started with astlinux...
I have been running asterisk on debian with my old Pentium 133 laptop. A hard drive failure convinced me I should start trying to move to astlinux. You may have noticed a couple of posts from me in the past, but up until now I had not actually had a running install of astlinux. The thing that was holding me up was that the only spare hardware I have on hand is a laptop computer without built-in ethernet, so I needed astlinux to support pcmcia. Probably not many are running on laptops, but it is what I have available, so the cost was right. Well, this weekend I finally had some time to work on it. Here are the steps I went through, with lots of trial and error left out. First, I had to get a vmware virtual machine set up for the build environment, since my only workstation is Windows XP. I started with CentOS 4.3 minimal install and added things as I needed them. I had to add these packages: subversion, gcc, bison, flex, autoconf, sharutils. The recently updated http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/AstLinux+Development+Environment proved very helpful for me. I was able to do a make kernel-headers before doing the make menuconfig and big make and got the kernel options turned on for pcmcia. This was after other previous unsuccessful attempts of course. Then, I had fun with makeimage for a while before I got a successful disk.img. I kept getting: grub> root (hd0,0) Unknown partition table signature Error 5: Partition table invalid or corrupt I am not sure why it started working, but it did. Then I had fun with USB through vmware to do the dd to CF card, pretty slow, but otherwise okay. I am using a Laptop IDE to CF Card adapter. I ended up making a second partition on the CF Card to be my keydisk since one of the laptops I am using doesn't have a USB port. So, I modified grub.conf to have the default option boot from /dev/hda1 with kd at /dev/hda2. As of this moment I am testing with a wireless card and have asterisk running and registering with servers, etc. I hope to swap out my production install with this setup soon. That will use two wired pcmcia lan cards, one for extip, one for intip with astlinux serving as router/firewall. I wanted to thank all the developers that have been active on this project, and the recent efforts to update some docs. This will provide me with higher reliability and higher performance now that I don't need a hard drive. Thanks, Michael http://sprg.net/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
