Elastix IP PBX (VoIP server) Regular and Raid Installation from ISO

1. Regular Installation method:
Download latest version of elastix pbx ISO from http://www.elastix.org.Once you’ve downloaded the ISO burn it to a CD. Turn on your server and insert the CD. Make sure that your server boots from the optical drive (CDROM) otherwise enable this option in the BIOS of your machine.

After booting from the optical drive you should get the following screen.

Pic.1.1 Initial installation screen elastix PBX

Note: I you face ATA PIIX driver blue screen error at starting of the installation follow these steps, After loading the CD press F4 for kernel options In next screen type Linux irq poll press enter
Press enter to start the installation process. Now you have to choose the keyboard layout according to your language. Select the option: “en” for English, clicks OK.
Now to set time settings of the server select Asia/Kolkata in the time zone selection menu.

Pic.1.2 Time zone settings

In next screen configure the root password used by Elastix administrator as shown in below screen shot

Pic.1.3 Root password setup

Next procedures will be automatically executed by the installation CD. First it will check for the dependencies and packages selected and after installation process starts, at this time you will see the below screen.

Pic1.4 Installation Process
After completing the installation process server proceeds to reboot
Note: Enable boot from hard disk in the bios settings other wise server will again boot from optical media
After system restart elastix will boot automatically.

Pic1.5 Grub scree for booting selection

Login to the system with user name root and password given at the start up of the installation.

Pic1.6 Login Screen

2. Installing over a software RAID
Installation of elastix in RAID architecture gives more stability and redundancy to the server.
For raid configuration a common scheme of portioning the hard disks is having 100Mb partition for “/boot”, 2GB for swap and all reaming space for the root “/”.
Software raid configuration in elastix will be done using the advanced mode.
To enter into advanced mode type advanced in the initial installation screen as show in below screen shot.

Like the normal installation process, the advanced installation requires the setup of the keyboard layout according to the keyboard language. Once you have selected the keyboard layout the partition type screen will appear.

To begin with the partition we have to select “Create custom layout”, the hard drives must be listed and selected. The partition screen will show the list of partitions once they are created.

In first step create all RAID partitions choosing the option “New”.

In system file type it’s necessary to choose “software R”, additionally it’s necessary to specify the partition Size, the hard drive for the partition, and if it is a primary partition. After selecting “OK” the new partition will show on the list as shown below:

It’s necessary to repeat this process for every RAID partition. Finally you should have the following list:

The list of partitions is exactly the same between the two hard drives. The next step is the creation of RAID devices. For this operation you select the option “RAID”.

In this screen you have to choose the mount point for the device, the type of system files, the type of RAID (1) and the RAID partitions that belongs to the device. It’s necessary to be careful and choose the corresponding partitions. This process it’s going to repeat for every RAID device according to the scheme of partitions defined. Later, the RAID devices will appear in the partitions list.

Now you select the option “OK” and continue with the normal installation procedure.