[VoIP] Configuring Asterisk

[John Novack]

Assumptions:
You have a spare computer, it can boot from CD, and you can burn CD's 
from iso files
You probably will have LOTS less problems with plain vanilla Linux
Go to the CentOS site, download the ISO files for CentOS 3, ( I had 
problems with CentOS 4 and something called udev ) and burn the 
installation CD's Boot from CD # 1 go through the install and make sure 
you install everything. The Linux guru's will say that isn't necessary, 
but down the road when you want to install something and some little 
file or package is missing.
When the machine is up and running with it's somewhat lame GUI, log on 
and go find Webmin with Mozilla/Firefox and follow the instructions to 
install. Again the Linux gurus on the list will be retching about now, 
but for the rest of us, Webmin gives access from your Windows machine 
for MANY configuration changes.
Report back for lesson # 2

John Novack


Erwin Dokter wrote:
> Since Remco is still having problems with his * box, I decided to play with
> Asterisk myself a little. Since I don't have Linux, I installed
> AsteriskWin32, which is a port from Asterisk 1.0.10. I need a sample
> configuration to get it working for CNET.
>
> The setup is dead simple: ATA > Asterisk > CNET, no FSX cards and such. So I
> need a minimal configuration that excepts calls from CNET and allows me to
> call to CNET. I just activated my office code (31)318 via email.
>
> Any help is appriciated.
>