Disk images for Dockstar

[PlugPBX Admin]

Can someone check if all the files are okay for me to put online officially please ?!

[twinclouds]

Hi, txcas:
Will your later 2 scripts also working on Debian Squeeze?
I have checked your scripts for installing Asterisk and for installing FreePBX.  It seems to me that either scripts install both Asterisk and FreePBX.  Is this true? or did I miss anything?  Do I need to run both or just one of them?

[PlugPBX Admin]

Whats the final status of the files in /uploads on this site?

[twinclouds]

Whats the final status of the files in /uploads on this site?

I tried to download the images.  Somehow, I cannot boot from them.  However, the scripts are useful for me.

[phdeez]

I'm able to download and gunzip successfully, however I cannot mount the images.  I tried the freepbx image and the asterisk one- on a 4GB USB Stick and an 8GB USB stick without success.

OP: could you post what your "fdisk -l" looks like?  I've noticed different USB drives report different sizes.  IE One of my 4GB reports as 4012mb and the other report 4009mb.

[twinclouds]

I Have successfully installed Debian/Asterisk/FreePBX on my Dockstar.  It is not really that difficult.  I can share the images in a couple of days with some simple instructions.  I have tested them many times and am quite confident it should work well.
I have changed my GV dial out server to Dockstar from an x86 box without any problem for over a week now.

[phdeez]

twinclouds: did the scripts posted run ok for you?  I tried running the asterisk.sh script on debian lenny without success.

[twinclouds]

The Debian installation script run fine for me, so was the FreePBX script.  You need to manually install the Kernel and Asterisk as described in http://forums.plugpbx.org/index.php?topic=109.0 (Step 2 and 3) by klingon.
One thing I would do after installing Debian is to add some public nameservers at the beginning of /etc/resolv.conf.  This will greatly speed up DNS server searching.  For Squeeze installation, that should be sufficient.  For Lenny installation, you need to change the ip address to static to avoid the resolv.conf file being overwritten in dhcp mode.  (You can also prevent the file overwritten in dhcp mode for Lenny but need other additional steps.)
This worked very well for me.

[ax0r7ag0z]

Hello everybody!!! Thank you for some awesome work!!!

I can't seem to be able to "burn" the images on a hard disk,
I use

Code:

dd if=dockstar.freepbx.image of=/dev/sdb

and it seems to complete ok but the dockstar does not boot
from that drive.

When I run

Code:

e2fsck -y /dev/sdb1

I get thousands of errors and a filled lost+found folder...

Or alternatively

Code:

e2fsck: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb1

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

What am I doing wrong?

[dangerstranger]

For an image -- should I use the one posted in this thread or use the standard plugPBX one (betaimageDec22-dhcpfixed4G.img.bz2)?

[PlugPBX Admin]

If its a dockstar, don't use mine - its build with a machine with lots of memory (like the sheeva), use the image for dockstar.

I never got  a final nod from anyone as to what image for the dockstar I can put up on the official download area (let alone its MD5 Sum...)

Anyone want to chime on on image(s) i can post on the downloads area for dockstar people? Anyone have one to share? I'm glad to host it here.

[dangerstranger]

It is a dockstar -- I will try one of the images in this thread, though it's probably better or my own personal knowledge to install it myself...

thanks for the work on this!