asterisk has not been tested on 8.0 and we are just testing on 7.0.
On Wednesday 09 April 2008 14:02:46 Gerald A wrote: > Hi Frank, > > On 4/6/08, Frank Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > I'm actually very interested in this work, as I did have a working setup at > one time, but have been thinking about going back and setting this up > again. > > > 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. > > There are two things that you need to consider. > First is configuration. Diskless, in one way or another, means that > you will only > have scarce local storage. I used to use floppies for this, as they were > cheap easy to deploy. Nowadays I'd think about USB sticks. You woldn't need > much for configs, considering that 512MB seems to be the smallest they are > selling now. > > The other thing is things generated from processes, like logfiles and > voicemail and CDR's. If these aren't important, then you can even forgo > them. You might want them, and someone else mentioned a database, but you > could even do it with a network mount of some sort. I used NFS in my > deployments, but SAMBA is also an option nowadays (if locking can be done > properly). > > I'd love to help/contribute and test. Let me know if you'd like to > co-ordinate efforts. > > Thanks, > Gerald. > > _______________________________________________ > --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
