[VoIP] Fedora, CentOS or What?

[John Novack]

Unfortunately, these thin client machines don't have a "standard" CF card.
They have a female socket that would mate to a 2.5 inch HD.
I have managed to find a cable that allows me to substitute a 2.5 inch 
hard drive for the circuit board, but I can't yet find something that 
would allow me to substitute this card for a HD.
All the sexes of the cables are pointing the wrong way!!
I suppose IF I am able to write AstLinux to the flash, then I could use 
a pen drive on the machine to store configs and sound files??
Right now I could install AstLinux to a 4 gig 2.5 drive, but that seems 
like cheating.
Do you see the 128 meg of Ram a problem?

Stay tuned


John Novack

Shane Young wrote:
> 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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