Thanks all for the suggestions ... I got the ISO up in vultr.com, piece of cake - I wasn't aware of that provider - thanks Mike @ Midnight !! (AWS watch out - if the monthly fees and reliability prove out I may move my other VMs out of AWS.) Thank you for the link to the repo Mike Lee - I hunted for that for a while without success - maybe that link should be put in the "Downloads" section ? The "ASL Repo" link sends you to the ASL Images download page. Bryan, I did try compiling from sources on a clean Debian Stretch image, but I think I flubbed the Asterisk perquisites - it barfed on app_meetme etc etc. The current version of gcc/g++ seem to have issues with the asterisk 1.4 code. I'd like to get that working at some point. Anyway, all good for now ... Cheers Gerry. W6WNG