Does anyone have a current, stripped linux distro which has only asterisk and net drivers? If so do you have it available somewhere? I guess also, my question could be, does anyone know of a small distro, which will run asterisk. When I say small I mean <700Mb Also, anyone got any sites on hand which would point to ways to make linux start up faster? (BTW this is all in aid of making Asterisk boxes, with LCDs and buttons as opposed to keyboard and screen - i will also write an interface for Asterisk to LCDproc, so that it can be controlled from buttons mounted next to the screen, and make it GPL). Any help, pointers greatly appreciated. Matt
checkout .. http://www.automated.it/asterisk/ and http://knopsterisk.com/ Feedback back to the forum once you make progress would be useful. Umar. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of matt.riddell@sineapps.com Sent: 08 July 2004 03:50 To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Small Linux Distro Does anyone have a current, stripped linux distro which has only asterisk and net drivers? If so do you have it available somewhere? I guess also, my question could be, does anyone know of a small distro, which will run asterisk. When I say small I mean <700Mb Also, anyone got any sites on hand which would point to ways to make linux start up faster? (BTW this is all in aid of making Asterisk boxes, with LCDs and buttons as opposed to keyboard and screen - i will also write an interface for Asterisk to LCDproc, so that it can be controlled from buttons mounted next to the screen, and make it GPL). Any help, pointers greatly appreciated. Matt _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>Does anyone have a current, stripped linux distro whichhas only>asterisk and net drivers? > >If so do you have it available somewhere? > >I guess also, my question could be, does anyone know of asmall>distro, which will run asterisk. > >When I say small I mean <700MbWe mostly use SuSE for building Asterisk servers and the smallest you can do with the standard SuSE installer just about fits onto 500MB. With a little bit of effort removing more stuff you could easily fit everything into a 512MB compact flash card, including Asterisk and some free space for logs and voicemail. You might want to use an IDE/CF adapter that can hold two CF cards. This way you could stick in a smaller second card -say- 32 or 64MB and mount stuff like /etc/asterisk, /var/log, /var/run and voicemail etc on that one, possibly leaving the main card mounted read-only for most of the time. Also, keep in mind that you don't necessarily have to keep kernel sources and development tools around, which can be a siginficant reduction in required disk space. If you have the time to put some more effort into this, I'd recommend you look into Coyote Linux ... http://www.coyotelinux.com This is an embedded Linux distro put together by Joshua Jackson for the purpose of creating very small footprint firewall routers and VPN servers. He's got three applications based on this so far, one is a firewall that fits entirely onto a floppy disk, another is a VPN server and firewall router that fits into a 32MB compact flash card and the third one is an intrusion detection system with similar properties. With a bit of effort you could possibly build a very small foot print (<=64MB ?) Asterisk server on top of Coyote Linux. Other places to check out are http://www.siliconpenguin.com http://www.embedded-linux.org http://www.linuxdevices.com rgds benjk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/
Thanks to everybody for your links and support. I think I have convinced all of the shareholders (tonight) that GPL is the way for anything we develop with regards to Asterisk, and they are going to put some more money into building a couple of prototypes boxes...(fun!!! hacking time!!!) So, once I have the hardware all setup and working properly, I'll post again here and find out what kind of features people would like to see in the LCD/button interface and what kind of statistics and options would be beneficial. Kind regards, Matt Riddell
Hi!> Does anyone have a current, stripped linux distro which has only > asterisk and net drivers?Look here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+installation+tips and you'll find a link to the "Asterisk Live! CD-ROM". If you have a moment I guess the list (and certainly me) would be interested to hear about your experiences with this. :-) Cheers, Philipp P.S.: You might also want to look at this: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+linux+distributions