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Install debian as dual boot system on a computer with Win 7 preinstalled

This guide describes installing of debian linux OS on a computer with Windows 7 system preinstalled. System will use grub2 as the system loader with predefined win7 boot option.

Steps required to do:

1) create a free space on your HDD, that you have space to install debian OS. You may use built in windows disk management tool to resize win partion (left click on start button, then right click on computer, choose manage, then choose disk management). There should be a frees space, like it is shown on the picture:

Asterisk 1.8 instalation and configuration with ODBC and DAHDI modules on Debian (lenny)

This guide describes installation of Asterisk 1.8.4 with ODBC module for MySQL support and DAHDI module for timer clock support. The timer clock is needed by some applications such as MeetMe which provides conferences.
First of all, we make sure that the packages are up to date:
apt-get update
Then we install MySQL server and client libraries:
apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev
We install ODBC as the database interface and also the ODBC libraries: