[VoIP] Fedora, CentOS or What?

[Donald Froula]

John, what application did you use to clone your
drives? I have several 6 Gbyte drives identical to the
one I hacked into my Wyse thin client, and would like
to clone the drive for easy recovery, if the drive
fails.

I've tried some of the free Linux code available, but
none have successfully created an image to my external
USB drive.

Thanks,

Don
--- John Novack <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org> wrote:

> Boy, you Brits really know how to start a religious
> argument!!
> 
> My choice has been, for better or worse, CentOS.
> CentOS version 3 works well on 1.2 versions
> CentOS 4/5 seems to be required on the 1.4 versions
> So far I have seen no reason to move to 1.4, though
> some have for 
> various reasons
> Many on the Asterisk users list consider 1.4 still
> unstable, though I 
> doubt any of the Cnet uses will be affected.
> I always install everything ( moans from the Linux
> gurus here ) but I 
> have found it easier to install everything and then
> turn off services I 
> don't need, rather than later battle some cryptic
> message regarding a 
> missing dependency that I can't fix or know where to
> stick a file.
> I also use the full, rather than the server version,
> and do an update 
> from yum before proceeding to Asterisk.
> I have cloned several hard drives for others on CNET
> with fair success, 
> saving having to start from scratch every time.
> Easier to change a machine name and such than
> reinstall everything from 
> scratch.
> Acronis version 9 handles Linux disks well, even
> when the geometry isn't 
> the same.
> 
> Others can comment on the other religions. I suppose
> it is down to 
> whatever we have been imprinted with in our early
> Linux days, and what 
> we have become familiar with.
> I have dabbled in the Debian pool, but have not met
> with any success.
> 
> John Novack
> 
> 
> Jonathan Kay wrote:
> > Chaps.
> >  If you started from scratch now, what would be
> your Linux distro of 
> > choice for a purely Asterisk box?
> > I'm building a few machines to pass on at cost
> price.
> >
> > CentOS 4, was available in a "Server" edition. I
> had problems compiling 
> > the latest zaptel with that and had to upgrade
> kernel etc. CentOS 5, 
> > doesn't offer the server edition.
> >
> > Fedora 5, and 6, I think had kernel version
> issues, again I had lots of 
> > trouble compiling Asterisk with FC6. I don't know
> if 7 is ok?
> >
> > Ubuntu is great, I use desktop and server
> versions. But it is Debian 
> > based, and the community here and on the UK list
> tend to use flavours of 
> > Red Hat with Asterisk, so getting CNET support
> might be more tricky.
> >
> > Comments welcome !?
> >
> > Jon
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