I'm trying to do my first PIAF install in some time -- did a couple some years back, and they have Just Run.
I downloaded 20624 like, last Thursday night, and when I got to it on Sunday, I discovered that that was no longer current by a couple of point releases. Assuming that updates would pick up the slack, I forged ahead.
That was a bad assumption; the install, among other things, did not compile Asterisk. It showed a message to that effect, but it also said that *that test* was itself beta quality, and might not be accurate, so I let it forge ahead. Nope, it was right.
Aside, now, from the fact that it didn't complain about the version until after not only the DL/burn time (obviously, outside its control), but also the Stage 1 OS install time, it might be understandable that I was frustrated. Even more so that when it was done with the 2 hour build, it launched Asterisk, and did not bother to notice that there was no binary there to launch; it merrily said "Asterisk started", right after "/usr/bin/safe_asterisk: file not found". But I'm ok with that, kinda.
What's frustrating me now is that the new version, which at that point I fell back and started from scratch with, *will not fit on a CD*. And most of these machines I want to put it on won't boot a DVD, even from USB. The 20650 image is 767MB.
800MB CD-Rs are available, but no one in my county seems to stock the things, and I needed to deliver this box last Friday. So waiting for them to arrive is a non-starter.
None of my urgency is the project's responsibility, certainly, but really? Given the amount of stuff the install has to download anyway, why is it again that the base CD image is so big I can't get it on to any used hardware I have here?
Go ahead, have at me.
I downloaded 20624 like, last Thursday night, and when I got to it on Sunday, I discovered that that was no longer current by a couple of point releases. Assuming that updates would pick up the slack, I forged ahead.
That was a bad assumption; the install, among other things, did not compile Asterisk. It showed a message to that effect, but it also said that *that test* was itself beta quality, and might not be accurate, so I let it forge ahead. Nope, it was right.
Aside, now, from the fact that it didn't complain about the version until after not only the DL/burn time (obviously, outside its control), but also the Stage 1 OS install time, it might be understandable that I was frustrated. Even more so that when it was done with the 2 hour build, it launched Asterisk, and did not bother to notice that there was no binary there to launch; it merrily said "Asterisk started", right after "/usr/bin/safe_asterisk: file not found". But I'm ok with that, kinda.
What's frustrating me now is that the new version, which at that point I fell back and started from scratch with, *will not fit on a CD*. And most of these machines I want to put it on won't boot a DVD, even from USB. The 20650 image is 767MB.
800MB CD-Rs are available, but no one in my county seems to stock the things, and I needed to deliver this box last Friday. So waiting for them to arrive is a non-starter.
None of my urgency is the project's responsibility, certainly, but really? Given the amount of stuff the install has to download anyway, why is it again that the base CD image is so big I can't get it on to any used hardware I have here?
Go ahead, have at me.