look at the askozia project for 1. the 2nd is you can extend the life of your drive by turning off cacheing in the kernel and not using a swap partition on you system. 3rd is a minimal kerney and software. to lessen seek times.
askozia does this for the most point. and it boot off a cf/sd/micro/usb hd. On Sunday 06 April 2008 19:08:03 Frank Griffith wrote: > Okay, I know I'm probably pushing the envelope but I > did loads of experimenting with diskless setup this > past week. Getting past all the outdates docs, typos > and bad information was difficult, but this weekend I > got the diskless client to boot and got some of the > advanced configuration done with it. And I even got it > to work with 8.0-CURRENT. > > Of course, now I would like to setup a diskless > machine to run Asterisk. I don't have any dough left > after paying my income tax to buy a Soekris box so I'm > making do with an older machine that has lost use of > it's hard drive. > > Can anyone offer me some pointers on how I could > advance this process. I like asterisk as my phone > system but the thought of having to buy hard drives > every few years is starting to make me think, who > needs them when the diskless process could take their place. > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ >_________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of > Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. > http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > Asterisk-BSD mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- Asterisk-BSD mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd
