[VoIP] Astlinux question

[Shane Young]

I'll have to try to load the development environment at some point at  
home and see if I can get MySQL compiled....


Quoting John Novack <novackster at gmail.com>:

>
>
> 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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