Here are the
steps required to download and burn the SUSE Linix distribution
DVDs.
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You will need a user ID and password to access our FTP
server. Contact me if you do not have one. |
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Using your favorite FTP client, connect to:
ftp.surfcity.net ,
login and 'cd' to the hidden 'asterisk' folder. Before
transferring any files via FTP, make sure your client is in
'binary' mode. Most GUI clients (like CUTEFTP) will do this
automatically. |
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Here is a command line example: c:\>ftp
ftp.surfcity.net
Connected to ftp.surfcity.net.
220 pine Microsoft FTP Service (Version 5.0).
User (ftp.surfcity.net:(none)): myaccount
331 Password required for myaccount.
Password: ********
230-
230-Welcome to the SurfCity Networks WEB Access FTP site
[PINE].
230-
230-
230 User myaccount logged in.
ftp> cd asterisk
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
03-12-04 11:30AM 227163
asterisk_handbook_project_version_1.pdf
03-12-04 11:34AM 163484 configuring_zaptel.pdf
03-13-04 12:24PM 28085 Create_SUSE_DVD.htm
03-13-04 09:40AM 28085 default.htm
03-12-04 11:48AM 97847 quick_install_zaptel_asterisk.pdf
03-13-04 12:05PM <DIR> Suse-Linux9
03-12-04 12:03PM 6205328 X-Lite-Getting-Started.pdf
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 448 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 448000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> cd Suse-Linux9
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
03-13-04 12:20PM <DIR> _vti_cnf
03-13-04 12:33PM <DIR> Alcohol 120% 1.4.8 Build 1222
03-03-04 10:18PM 3250 SJ-Linux9DVD1boot.nfo
03-03-04 10:18PM 771311 SJ-Linux9DVD1boot.nzb
03-04-04 02:07AM 3003 SJ-Linux9DVD2.nfo
03-04-04 02:07AM 651933 SJ-Linux9DVD2.nzb
02-19-04 09:20PM 4216291328 Suse-DVD1.ISO
02-19-04 09:20PM 4322 Suse-DVD1.MDS
02-19-04 09:20PM 3571744768 SuSe9-B.ISO
02-19-04 09:20PM 4320 SuSe9-B.MDS
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 475 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 475000.00Kbytes/sec.
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> mget *
mget SJ-Linux9DVD1boot.nfo? y
mget SJ-Linux9DVD1boot.nzb? y
mget SJ-Linux9DVD2.nfo? y
mget SJ-Linux9DVD2.nzb? y
mget Suse-DVD1.ISO? y
mget Suse-DVD1.MDS? y
mget SuSe9-B.ISO? y
mget SuSe9-B.MDS? y
ftp> quit
221 Did you remember to test your web site ?
c:\>
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As you may have noticed, the combined DVDs are upwards
of 8 gigabytes. Depending upon your connection speed, this
will probably take awhile. If your download is slow, don't
blame it on SurfCity Networks. We always have at least
20Mbit available bandwidth for downloads. |
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If you do not already have it, install Alcohol 120% from
it's installation folder. There is a serial number in the 'serial.txt'
file. You should also be able to use Roxio Easy Creator, but
I have not tested this. |
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You should probably use a DVD-R for the Linux
installation DVD. Alcohol will create a bootable DVD. If you
have to use DVD+R, please let me know if it works. |
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Open Alcohol and select the .MDS file for the first DVD.
Follow the instructions and create the DVD. Do the same for
the second DVD, although I have yet to need any files stored
on that DVD. |
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You should now have a bootable DVD. Make sure your
computer has a) a DVD drive (duh!) and the bios supports
booting from this type of media. You may need to update your
BIOS from the motherboard manufactures website to get this
to work. Some older motherboards may not support this at
all. |
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I had a fairly big hard drive (150G) so when it came
time to select the installation packages, my motto was "when
in doubt, install !!!". Even so, when all was said and done,
the total space used by the OS, dev environment, source,
libraries, etc. was 3G. Ain't Linux great ? Someone on
the Asterisk list claimed he was running Linux and Asterisk
off of a 150M Flash drive.
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Here are the instructions to install Redhat Linux,
followed by Asterisk. The Redhat and SUSE installations are
similar so you should easily get to the point where you will
be downloading and compiling the Asterisk distribution. |
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If you have any suggestions for these instructions,
please
email me. |
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Good luck ! |
