On 6/24/12 1:58 PM, Fred Gleason wrote: > On Jun 24, 2012, at 13:14 09, Rob Landry wrote: > >> So, today I'm building my first Rivendell box under CentOS. To one used to >> Debian and its 25,000+ readily available packages, CentOS is a challenge. >> I've just spent three hours looking for alsa-tools and alsa-firmware >> packages which don't seem to exist. I'm going to have to compile them >> from source. > You might want to consider Broadcast Appliance, which is based on CentOS 5. > Pretty much everything you need for RD (including the ASI driver) is > precompiled and available in online repositories. Although I certainly can't > claim 25,000+ packages, a number of packages relevant to broadcast radio > (--i.e, Audacity, CallCommander, etc) *are* included. > > http://www.paravelsystems.com/appliance.html > > Cheers! >
The Broadcast Appliance works great for installing and running. Everything works great right from the start. Do remember, though, it does completely format ALL drives, even if you select it to not format a specific drive (I learned that the hard way). I had read it saying it formats the drives, but the setup does give the option to not format certain drives. However, even if you select that, as I did, it will format that drive. Stupidly, I didn't have a back up of that system and I'm still trying to rebuild the music base (been many months). Yes, I know...my mistake for not backing up. Just had done too many debian/ubuntu things (not appliance) where it won't touch stuff you tell it not to. Did have the database backed up at least...just not the /var/snd drive (done as it's own drive on the system). Just a friendly tip to learn from my mistake! :) Tim _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
