Thanks for all the great suggestions, Flashybrid looks interesting. I remember reading about the Astlinux development environment but have not heard much about it lately. Could not find any links to it anywhere. Now that I have a link I will have to check that out as well.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 1:44 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] How hard to create Asterisk for > Compact Flash? > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Hadley Rich wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 14:15, mustardman29 wrote: > >> How hard is it to create my own version of Linux/Asterisk > to run on > >> Compact Flash. I have seen 1GB Sandisk CF for as low as > $50 recently > >> so small size is not too critical. I won't be using AMP > or anything like that either. > >> The most important thing is for it to be read only so the > CF is not > >> constantly being written to so it will last a long time. > Voicemail > >> and config files will be stored on a second CF that is read/write. > > You could use any distro you want really. Some good options would > > probably be; > > > > - Debian (check out flashybrid package for read only root) > > - Gentoo (I know there is a read only root tutorial around > somewhere) > > - Slackware (read only root should be fairly easy too) > > - Arch (I have my own experimental read only root package for this > > --uses rsync, similar to flashybrid) > > I did this recently using ubuntu, onto a 1gb CF on an x86_64 > PC. It is not a "slim" install by any means, but it is > completely self hosting with the ability to compile the > kernel and asterisk. And I have several hundred MB left over > for voicemail -- plenty I think for even busy offices. > > The trickiest part was setting up all the symlinks for a > ramdisk, and setting up scripts to save/restore persistent > data on CF across reboots. > > -Dan > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
