[VoIP] Astlinux question

[John Novack]

Shane Young wrote:
> John, did you try to get MySQL running on it at all?
>
>   
No I did not. This uses a very small Linux flavor, based on KNOPPIX, and 
doing much with that is above my pay level. Some sort of Debian variant?
Chad and I worked ( struggled ) for some time tonight on his 
configuration, and I just sent him another e-mail with a possible solution.

AstLinux does have a log file that can be read from the web page though, 
and possibly more.

Chad will determine if this is an easier way to go for larger machines, 
but it sure is slick to stick all of this on a small memory card and 
have a working system.

John Novack

> 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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