I've got an old notebook 486DX2 with 8MB RAM and a _very_ small drive. Linux runs fine on it but no-way can I even run the RedHat install program. The 486 make a good fire wall. It take little power and little space, has a builtin battery UPS and screen. And even a 486 can handle a 1Mb ADSL line. Butit can't run RedHat.
A minimal Linux system will fit on a self contained floppy disk and run in about 4MB of RAM On top of this, to run Asterisk you wil need Asterisk, it's drivers, any *.so files that "ldd" finds plus any "extras". The extras can be quite large like Festival amd mp3123 and PostgreSQL and a web server and so on. I'd recommand any of the floppy disk based distributions over RedHat if you have very minimal hardware. I've used "tomsrtbt" www.toms.net/rb/ for years now. It is easy to modify too as there is a file you can edit which controls what gets put on the disk. With tomsrtbt the idea is that you build a bootable image using a large RedHat or Debiam system and then move that disk over to the target hardware. Normally this is a floppy but you can make it an LS120 or small IDE with some editing of his scripts. I use tomsrtbtas a hardware diagnostic floppy for even MS Windows based systems. It runs out of ram without a hard drive and I can look around in /proc to see what's up with the hardware and it runs on systems that can't boot Windows, or Redhat. So go to www.toms.net/rb/ and try it out. You could also boot with off the self tomsrtbt then ftp or nfs transfer Asterisk but you may fid other floppy based Linuxs you like. but Redhat just will not run on the real low end "slackware" might work too. I ued to run it back when my biggest PC was a 386 back when Linux kernal was still 0.x but have not used slackware Linux in many years. Today I used RedHat, Tomsrtbt and Solaris (BTW I'd recommend Solaris for that guy with 50,000 users who asked here earlier as it is hard to find a Intel box with more then 4 GB RAM or 4 CPUs) --- JR Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get the total Linux/* installation size as small as > possible. > I'm wondering if anyone has looked at the installed packages list > from the > Redhat installation [rpm -qa] and has parsed out all packages not > needed for > * to run. I follow the custom install guide from Andy Powell but the > installation yields 948+ Meg with 340 installed packages. I'm sure > most of > those packages can be eliminated. > > > > If the installation can be reduced to below, say 600 Meg, then > there's an > opportunity to harden * into a KNOPPIX Customization. > > > > BTW, has anyone already tried to produce a KNOPPIX * Customization? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > JR > > ===== Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KG6OMK __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
