[VoIP] Fedora, CentOS or What?

[Shane Young]

It's a pretty cool thing.

Get a compact flash card and reader for your PC.
Download the files from sourceforge.
Run the command that builds a filesystem on the flash drive from the  
files you download.

remove the flash drive from your pc.
Insert it into the new device.
Boot.

It prefers to find a second device to write it's configs to.

The compact flash to IDE reader is about $10-25.  It just looks like  
an IDE drive to the system.

The documentation is a little lacking, but it is pretty nifty.


Quoting John Novack <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>:

>
>
> Shane Young wrote:
>> Quoting Jonathan Kay <g4vft at btinternet.com>:
>>
>>
>>> Chaps.
>>>  If you started from scratch now, what would be your Linux distro of
>>> choice for a purely Asterisk box?
>>> I'm building a few machines to pass on at cost price.
>>>
>> <snip>
>> I'm a little supprized that there isn't much discussion about
>> AstLinux.  The whole thing can run on a 64meg compact flash card (or
>> from a regular hard drive).  If you have a new enough machine that
>> will boot from USB, you can install it on a thumbdrive.
>>
>> It's Linux built just for running Asterisk with very little overhead.
>>
>> I'm in the process now of building some machines using AstLinux to try
>> it out.  I'll have two external compact flash card slots.  One for
>> AstLinux and one for the configuration files.  If the AstLinux card
>> fails, I just build a new one on my PC (about a 5 minute process),
>> replace the old one and reboot.  All of the configuration is read from
>> the config card.
>>
> I wonder how this would work with the cheaply available HP "thin Client"
> units?
> 64 Meg of flash, 128 meg of ram, 800 Meg processor?
>
> Can you supply any details on installation? Either on or off list? The
> Flash on these units is plug compatible ( though of the wrong sex ) with
> the 2.5 Hard drive. With the right cable a HD can be substituted for the
> flash memory. Main memory on some can be upped, but not the 5520.
> These may be an interesting alternative to the "Asterisk in a Router"
> some have been using.
>
> Lets explore this further.
>
> John Novack
>
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