[VoIP] Astlinux question

[Shane Young]

John, did you try to get MySQL running on it at all?

Quoting John Novack <novackster at gmail.com>:

>
>
> 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
>
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