[App_rpt-users] Allstar on different distros

[Tony KT9AC]

OK, I'm going to ask if there ongoing efforts to package or provide 
install schemes for different hardware?

I have had a node running for years on an old P4 just fine. For a 
low-power, fanless box I've gravitated toward the HP Thin clients, which 
really aren't that bad. 1.0Ghz AMD Geode, 512MB ram and an upgrade to a 
44-pin 8GB Compact Flash. I have a need to build and remotely deploy 
three of these and would like a common install to manage. I do the 
standard noatime and tmpfs changes to keep the flash quiet and happy.

ACID won't install on Thin Clients; XIPAR will install but takes about 
3-4 hours and doesn't do MDC1200 or record traffic that I need (acid 
archives). I can install Debian 7.1 in about 20 minutes and it 
absolutely flies. Asterisk 1.8 and the current ACID SVN all compile 
under Debian but I can't get it to work with the URI interface. Dmesg 
and lspci show the URI but Allstar using the "radio tune" shows the card 
as "-1". I have a whole weekend in this latest build attempt.

It would seem that out in the real world you can install Asterisk on 
anything, and that is the spirit of open-source. What would be required 
to get app_rpt and some of the chan stuff to run on "commodity" installs 
(apt-get install asterisk for example)?

A lot of this is over my head, but I'm willing to try. I realize that 
some builds were customized for a point in time, so that begs the 
question about modern day attempts (Debian 7.1 runs the 3.2.0-4-686-pae 
kernel). Thanks Kirk for your script, but I found out late last night it 
doesn't use the same hardware that I do.

Thanks.

Tony (27129/27418/27460)