TIPS PIAF/Elastix on CloudatCost

[oneradioboy]

I purchased some space at CloudatCost and want to know how to get PIAF/Elastix 2.5 loaded up there. I can follow the detailed instructions from nerdvittles.com once a clean Elastix has been installed but just don't know where to start for the Elastix install. I've included an image of the available OS types.

 

[kenn10]

First, welcome to the forums. We like to help folks, but show some initiative before just saying "I don't know what to do." This forum and www.nerdvittles.com contain more information than anyone can imagine. Google is your friend so embrace it.

This should give you a start: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=elastix incrediblepbx

Also, beware VOIP and Cloud at Cost. I have found the cloud instance to be overloaded and their network to be unsuitable for VOIP. At times, they are fine but at peak periods, call quality becomes horrible. Your mileage may vary.

 

[hecatae]

Hi oneradioboy,

to install Elastix 2.5 you need centos 5, which cloudatcost do not offer, but you may be able to get it booting...

If you look at http://www.sentris.net/billing/knowledgebase/25/How-to-re-install-Centos-yourself-remotely.html it should be possible to choose the centos 6 64 bit option, follow the instructions in the link, and remotely install centos 5 on top.

of course if it was possible to reinstall via ssh instead of vnc that may make it easier to do

 

[hecatae]

how to install centos 5 over a cloudatcost centos 6 64bit install:

mkdir /centos_install
cd /centos_install
wget http://vault.centos.org/5.6/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
wget http://vault.centos.org/5.6/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
cp vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz.cent.pxe
cp initrd.img /boot/initrd.img.cent.pxe

this will pull down the necessary pxe stuff,

nano -w /etc/grub.conf

in that file paste this in BETWEEN "hiddenmenu" and "title CentOS..." (IMPORTANT):

title Centos Install (PXE)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz.cent.pxe  headless ip=C@CIP netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=C@CGATEWAYIP dns=8.8.8.8 ksdevice=eth0 method=http://vault.centos.org/5.6/os/x86_64/ lang=en_US keymap=us
initrd /initrd.img.cent.pxe

press the console button on panel, type reboot in the ssh session, pxe boot starts, and promptly screams that it cant find the vmxnet drivers, what to do, what to do, rebuild the initrd.img.pxe to include the necessary drivers

mkdir /tmp/work
cd /tmp/work
wget http://vault.centos.org/5.6/os/x86_64/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
mkdir initrd
cd initrd
zcat ../initrd.img | cpio -id

now we need the module:

mkdir /tmp/work/modules
cd /tmp/work/modules
zcat ../initrd/modules/modules.cgz  | cpio -id

and this is where I'm at, the pxe stuff was borrowed and adapted from http://www.sentris.net/billing/knowledgebase/25/How-to-re-install-Centos-yourself-remotely.html
plus the vmxnet module stuff is from here: http://drcs.ca/blog/vmware-vmxnet-driver-support-when-using-pxeboot-and-kickstart/

Could someone who is au fait with RHEL stuff advise if a vmxnet driver from a centos6 2.6.32 kernel would work on a centos5 2.6.18 kernel?

the vmware tools rpm is here, http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/repos/index.html can I select an rpm when it asks for a driver disk?

 

[tritron]

There is a easy way to intall elastix 4.0 on top of centos 7.0 http://forum.elastix.org/viewtopic.php?p=131992&sid=18400f7082a4c9ad150e0ca452d2411f

 

[hecatae]

There is a easy way to intall elastix 4.0 on top of centos 7.0 http://forum.elastix.org/viewtopic.php?p=131992&sid=18400f7082a4c9ad150e0ca452d2411f

tritron you have linked to Elastix 3.0 ?

 

[tritron]

Those are instructions it works with any version of elastix. I had tested it with 4.0 elastix and centos 7.0 You download verison of elastix 4.0 beta 1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/pr...loads/&ts=1431033551&use_mirror=softlayer-dal