On 26 November 2014 at 11:32, Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com wrote:
I wasted a lot of time trying. I sort of got it working, but decided to give up and try the ISO for FreePBX. The difference was amazing, with a LOT more stuff enabled via the ISO. Thereafter, it was a no-brainer.
Well I've had a bit of success with these instructions: http://wiki.freepbx.org/display/HTGS/Installing+FreePBX+12+on+Ubuntu+Server+...
and now have FreePBX up on Ubuntu 14.04 ready to experiment with. I just have to work out where to start now...
Most decent VM companies will "mount" a specific ISO for you to boot from if you ask them. For instance, they rarely offer Gentoo by default, so I ask and they sort it. I've been using these people happily for years: http://www.pcsmarthosting.com/ and they have always been happy to do that for me.
It seems to depend what they use for virtualisation; it seems easier with Xen than with (eg) KVM, from what I've read.
For now, my advice is stick with the packaged CentOS distro. There isn't very much need to actually use the OS itself. I think all I did was sort out SSH access.
As it seems to be working at the moment I'll hold off until I break it but I'll probably at least install to a VM locally as a reference point.
Thanks for the advice.