[VoIP] Astlinux question

[John Novack]

Chad Perkins wrote:
> I looked at Astlinux 0.4.8 (with Asterisk 1.2.24) as a platform for replacing my aging Mandrake 9.1 system(s).  It looked promising so I downloaded the iso and did an 'install'.  But now that I have got it on the harddrive it still acts as if I was running it as Live CD, i.e. all config file changes disappear on a reboot like they were stored on a 
> ramdrive.  I haven't been able figure out what I need to do (differently); I've tried mounting the file R/W, I've tried mounting R/O after making the changes and before rebooting, etc. ... 
>
> Any got a clue how to fix this??  I'm not looking to buying a thumb drive to have sticking out, just everything on the HD.
>
> Chad
>   
Well, I had a look at this.
Not for the faint of heart, and perhaps there is a better way, but 
remember, AstLinux wants a "keydisk" not on hda1, and when it boots up 
you are presented with a screen of 4 options, which can all be edited of 
course.
What I did with an old 4 Gig drive is do the install, then with fdisk 
make some more partitions, since the boot partition is less than 64 meg. 
IF you make hda2 and hda3 or however many you want to carve up the disk, 
then when it reboots, either edit the grub boot screen or select the 
last option to use the third partition as your keydisk, all SHOULD be well.
I did something similar with the recent thin clients to carve up the 256 
meg flash into two partitions, the second has plenty of room left for 
additional sound files, as AstLinux only comes with a handful.

Hope this helps a bit.

John Novack

-- 
Dog is my co-pilot