Tom Lynn wrote: > Darrick, > I don't do my own builds. My priority is to get some experience with > asterisk 1.4. I feel that staying with AstLinux in its' current state > is holding me back from progressing in my knowledge of Asterisk. The > thing that's held me so far is the embedded architecture and the ease > with which I'm able to use AstLinux as my home router. > > I'm not as interested in the runnix aspects of the project, although I > do agree we need something that's easier to upgrade. If I had a vote, > it would be to deliver 1.4 sooner than later in an official release. > With or without runnix.
Tom, I uploaded a few new images a little while ago based on what's in trunk. I've been using these images in production at several locations without any issues. These are runnix based images. I need to clean up the documentation on the www.astlinux.org page, but for now, you can follow these steps. Go to my unofficial image site: http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux/ Download one of the two following files depending on your target device. For generic pc's with a monitor and keyboard attached: http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux/runnix.img.gz For devices that you wish to use a serial console: http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux/runnix-serial.img.gz Then dd these files to a compact flash the same way used to install the older Astlinux files. This will create an initial vfat partition with the runnix files which is what you need to get started using these new images. Next, you'll need the appropriate image files. I have these available for generic pc's (geni586) and net5501 right now. I'll be uploading images for VIA C3 based systems and net4801 in the morning. I'd recommend using the svn 1586 images as they are the newest and contain several updates including Asterisk 1.4.18. For example, if you were doing a generic PC, grab this file: http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux/astlinux-trunk-1586-geni586.tar.gz and optionally, the sha1 file to verify the download was successful. These latest images contain full support for mISDN, Sangoma, Rhino and Digium hardware. They also have the core sounds and music on hold files as gsm, ulaw and g729. You'll need to tar and gunzip the file, then copy the contents to the 'os' directory on the runnix partition (which is formatted vfat so you can even do this on a Windows machine). You will need to edit the .conf file to designate your key disk location and add an option for your unionfs partition. On all new installs, I've been forgoing the key disk in favor of only a unionfs partition. Since upgrading is as simple as dropping new files into the 'os' directory, you never need to worry about wiping out your key disk (or unionfs) partition(s) when you upgrade. With unionfs, you don't need to worry about putting the system into read-write mode. Unionfs just does the right thing. There's a genunion script which will set everything up for you. ( genunion /dev/partition ). It even tells you how to modify the cmdline in the .conf file to make sure everything works at boot. I'm working on a script that will move the contents of an existing key disk to unionfs, but that's not done yet. Hopefully this info is useful. Regards, Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
