[App_rpt-users] Regarding Dial installation..

[Steve Zingman]

That's 5 hours of my life I'll never get back.

On 12/17/2017 05:25 PM, Loren Tedford wrote:
> After spending two weeks in total off and on working on the 
> installation of dial via the iso files provided by the 
> allstarlink.org  website wiki. I have finally  gotten a clean 
> installation in a VM.. I am posting this VM public for everyone to be 
> able to download in the event you can't get allstarlink installed.. 
> The password is the default usernaame: repeater password: allstarlink 
> Just as listed in the wiki.. I also posted the iso files as well.. I 
> still think this was a scripting issue some where and I think that we 
> need to be much more careful in how we handle allstarlink stable 
> distro in the future.. We need to make sure that Stable is Stable and 
> create test versions rather than make random changes.. I am thankful 
> and grateful for everyones help during this entire problem however if 
> i was some one that wasn't familiar with linux i would have given up 
> by now for sure..  Their is no excuse for failed installations with a 
> stable iso. Below will be the links to where i have stored these for 
> everyone's download just as a just in case basis..
>
> Here is what i think happened.. I think that either a script was mis 
> typed for some reason or file extensions didn't match during 
> installation on the second boot duration as seen in my video here.. 
> https://youtu.be/WKkEg-EEyNc It seemed to get stuck during the second 
> boot where typically it would install allstarlink and do its thing.. I 
> am not a huge fan of over the internet installations for the project 
> however i understand why we have been doing it.. From time to time I 
> think we should get together and store full iso images for 
> installation on sites with no network or limited internet access..
>
>
> Here is a link to the iso i got to work.. 
> http://voipham.com/downloads/allstar-firmware-8.7.1-amd64-i386-netinst/
>
> Here is a VM ready to import 
> http://voipham.com/downloads/Debian%208.7.1-amd64-i386-VirtualBox.zip
>
>
> Lets hope this doesn't happen in the future..
>
> Loren Tedford (KC9ZHV)
>
>
> Please lets be more careful from here on out..
>
>
>
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