On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 02:34:45AM +0100, Vincent wrote: > Hello > > Since I got the IBM Netvista to boot Linux, and am still waiting for > the Compact Flash cards that I ordered, I was wondering if someone > knew of an Asterisk distribution that can run on that kind of diskless > host?
Yes. I have a version of our CD that boots from PXE. It took minor changes and rebuilding as a "PXE image", as Debian Live has basic support of that already. For simplicity I figure you'll be after a system that has everything in the initrd, but this is not the case here. It mounts a network partition to do the rest. We use NFS. CIFS is also supported. Debian Live takes a slightly different direction than astlinux and co.: Instead of completely rebuilding your system to match a read-only partition and read-write partition, just union-mount the read-write partition over the basic read-only partition. This technique is now common with live CDs. There are also ways to rewrite some changes, but I have not played with them at all, so I can't really say how effective they are. You can get the ISO from http://updates.xorcom.com/iso/ (the live ISO). Again, that is currently jsut a CD image, but it includes the full configuration for rebuilding. For more information about Debian Live: http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ . I'm currently using there casper as I have had problems getting initramfs-live on an Etch system (and had no time to solve them). But initramfs-live may be more useful to you. The really nice thing about that system is that it is a fully-functioning Debian system. Just apt-get install extra software (with the limitationsof your free RAM, of course). -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
