Re: [Astlinux-users] My Custom TTS Ulaw Sound Files Delete on Reboot of Thin Client Running Astlinux

[Cody A. <ald...@gm...>]

Lonnie,

This may require a new post, but I get an "error zeroing first 1 GB" when
installing Astlinux on Virtual Box. Do you have any idea what may cause
that? The install fails because of it.

-Cody

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...
> wrote:

> Hi Cody, (comments inline)
>
> On Aug 28, 2017, at 10:44 AM, Cody Alderson <ald...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
> > Lonnie,
> >
> > Symlink is symbolic link in Linux?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Can you recommend a book for a Windows guy that goes back to the days of
> DOS to understand Linux better?
>
> Googling I found this page: (a part of a college class)
> http://www.cis.rit.edu/class/simg211/unixintro/Filesystem.html
>
> Though if you want to learn Linux by doing it would be best for you to
> install
> VirtualBox [ https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads ] on Windows and
> then install
> AstLinux [ https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:guest_vm_virtualbox ]
> as a guest of your Windows VirtualBox host.
>
> Playing with AstLinux as a guest of the VirtualBox VM so you can't do any
> damage to your production AstLinux system.  If you mess-up you can easily
> reinstall from the ISO and try again.
>
>
> > Also, I had previously had to put in the entire path to the ulaw files
> in my dialplan. For example, /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/custom-sounds-filename.
> Now that I have made the custom-sounds persistent, can I just use
> /custom-sounds/filename such as in Playback(/custom-sounds/filename)  ?
>
> You can use Playback(custom-sounds/filename) *without* a leading /
> (slash) as you showed.  Hopefully the class URL above will help you
> understand the UNIX (Linux) file structure.
>
> Also remember that Asterisk's Playback() does not want the sound file
> suffix (ie. no trailing .ulaw or .wav) as Asterisk will look for the best
> matching sound file format for the current channel's CODEC.
>
> In general you should never have to create or delete any files or
> directories outside of the /mnt/kd/ tree path in AstLinux.
>
> Lonnie
>