Installing trixbox CE 2.6(1)

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• 1 Download the ISO image
• 2 Burning the CD
• 3 Preparing for installation
  
  • 3.1 Installing trixbox CE
    
• 4 Basic system configuration
  
  • 4.1 Updating trixbox CE from the command line
    
    • 4.1.1 Getting all yummy with it
    • 4.1.2 trixbox CE command-line tools
      
  • 4.2 Using the web interface
    
    • 4.2.1 User mode
    • 4.2.2 Asterisk Recording Interface (ARI)
      
  • 4.3 Web MeetMe (MeetMe)
    
    • 4.3.1 Flash Operator Panel (FOP)
      
    
    
• 5 Admin mode
• 6 System Status
• 7 Package Manager
• 8 PBX menu
  
  • 8.1 System menu
  • 8.2 Settings menu
    
• 9 Additional References
• 10 Source
  

Download the ISO image

The trixbox CE software comes as an ISO image, which is file that is a complete image of a CD-ROM. You can download the current software by going to http://www.trixbox.org/downloads. The ISO image file is going to be about 670 megabytes.

Burning the CD

Most CD-ROM burning software can burn the ISO image to a blank CD; the thing to make sure of is that you don't simply burn the ISO file onto the disc like any other file you would copy when doing a backup. If you don't burn the file onto the CD as an image, it won't work properly. If you don't have any CD-ROM burning software, we will walk through the process of burning the image using the free program called CDBurnerXP, which is available for download at http://cdburnerxp.se. When you first run CDBurnerXP, you will need to click on the Create Data CD/DVD button.
  
When the next screen comes up, go to the File menu and select Burn disc from ISO file....
  
When the next screen comes up, click on   
the button to browse to where you downloaded the ISO file to, select the file, and click the Open button. If you have a blank CD in your CD-ROM burner, click on the Burn disc button to begin burning the image to the CD.  
Once the process completes you will have a bootable CD that you can use to install trixbox CE onto your target machine.

Preparing for installation

You will need a computer onto which you are going to use to install trixbox CE. The installation process will format the hard drives and install a new operating system and all of the trixbox CE software.

Installing trixbox CE will format ALL of the hard drives connected to the machine, and ALL of the data on ALL of the attached hard drives will be lost. Do not have any hard drive including external USB hard drives connected if you mind losing all of the data that is stored on those drives.

Depending on your system you may either be able to hit a specific key to boot off the CD or you may have to go into the system's BIOS menus to set the computer to boot off of the CD. Refer to the manual for your motherboard for instructions on how to boot from the CD-ROM drive.

Installing trixbox CE

We are finally ready to go, we have the trixbox CE CD in the drive; now all you need to do is fire up the computer and boot off the CD. We will now walk through the installation screens and look at the different installation options. When the first screen comes up, you can usually just hit the Enter key to proceed with a normal installation. If you hit the F2 key, you will get a screen of advanced functions.Some of these advanced functions that you should know are the following:

• default mediacheck: Using this command will run a media check during the installation process that checks the CD media against a checksum on the CD to make sure your download and burn worked properly. If you have problems installing the trixbox CE software, you should try rebooting and using this command.
• sataraid: If you have two SATA drives connected to your system you can use this command to automatically configure software mirroring between the two drives to ensure that your system can survive a hard drive failure.
• sataraidstore: This command will install trixbox CE onto a 20GB partition and format the rest of the system as a single partition that is mounted as /store. This is used to set up a trixbox CE system as a phone system as well as a file server.
• advanced: If you are familiar with Linux and want to set up your own drive partitioning then you can use this command to have more control over your trixbox CE installation.
  

For now, let's just hit the Enter key to begin the installation process.
  
The second screen that comes up will ask us which default language for the operating system we want to use.
  
Moving right along, the next screen will prompt you to set the time zone for your system. Generally speaking, you can use the UTC option as this will account for daylight savings time. However, if you are using dual boot into another operating system like DOS or Windows, this can cause time issues for the other operating system.
  
The final screen in the install process will prompt you to select a password. This password is used to log-in to the console or through SSH as root. Don't forget this password or you will have to wait till the end of the tutorial to learn how to reset a lost root password.