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 My CPU with 16Mb is obsolete now.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 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
