I've been thinking of making a (mostly) solid-state asterisk pbx. Take either centos or some other distro, cut it down to bare minimum and put asterisk + AMP on. Something that could be put onto a usb2.0 flash stick, bootable. Modern flash devices (usb, compactflash) have builtin wear leveling management and will last longer than you think: http://www.sandisk.com/pdf/oem/WPaperWearLevelv1.0.pdf Use ramdisk to store temporary files and flash to store permanent pbx configuration data, voicemail etc. Done right, one could literally have a "pbx on a stick". Eg a 256mb, 512mb or 1gb sandisk usb2.0 dongle. Anyone done something like this yet? -Dan
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, quoth asterisk@anime.net:> I've been thinking of making a (mostly) solid-state asterisk pbx. > > Take either centos or some other distro, cut it down to bare minimum and > put asterisk + AMP on. Something that could be put onto a usb2.0 flash > stick, bootable. > > Anyone done something like this yet?Yes, I installed asterisk (Debian packages) on pebble[0] linux on a flash drive in a VIA Eden based system. This was one of those 800MB laptop-ide-emulating[1] flash drives, but the full install was 127MB so you could easily install it on a 256MB usb stick or similar. It's useful running asterisk on a read-only distribution like that, since it is resilient to people powering the system on and off without shutting it down first. - Matt [0] http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/ [1] as in, it looks just like a laptop HDD, but is solid state internally.
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2004-March/038463.html follow the thread.. should give you some info ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Kemner" <zombie@penguincare.com.au> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:15 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] solid-state asterisk pbx?> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, quoth asterisk@anime.net: > >> I've been thinking of making a (mostly) solid-stateasterisk pbx.>> >> Take either centos or some other distro, cut itdown to bare minimum and>> put asterisk + AMP on. Something that could be putonto a usb2.0 flash>> stick, bootable. >> >> Anyone done something like this yet? > > Yes, I installed asterisk (Debian packages) onpebble[0] linux> on a flash drive in a VIA Eden based system. > > This was one of those 800MB laptop-ide-emulating[1]flash drives, but the> full install was 127MB so you could easily installit on a 256MB usb stick> or similar. > > It's useful running asterisk on a read-onlydistribution like that, since> it is resilient to people powering the system on andoff without shutting> it down first. > > - Matt > > [0] http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/ > [1] as in, it looks just like a laptop HDD, but issolid state internally.> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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>__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Embedded+Systems ----- Original Message ----- From: <asterisk@anime.net> To: <Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 1:44 PM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] solid-state asterisk pbx?> I've been thinking of making a (mostly) solid-stateasterisk pbx.> > Take either centos or some other distro, cut it downto bare minimum and> put asterisk + AMP on. Something that could be putonto a usb2.0 flash> stick, bootable. > > Modern flash devices (usb, compactflash) havebuiltin wear leveling> management and will last longer than you think: >http://www.sandisk.com/pdf/oem/WPaperWearLevelv1.0.pdf> > Use ramdisk to store temporary files and flash tostore permanent> pbx configuration data, voicemail etc. > > Done right, one could literally have a "pbx on astick". Eg a 256mb, 512mb> or 1gb sandisk usb2.0 dongle. > > Anyone done something like this yet? > > -Dan > > _______________________________________________ > 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>__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
Hi Dan, I've been investigating the same thing. Try to Google for Asterisk+Soekris, Soekris is the company (http://www.soekris.com) that makes cute little 586 class fan-less single board computers that run both Linux and FreeBSD ... Good luck, Hans -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of asterisk@anime.net Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:45 PM To: Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] solid-state asterisk pbx? I've been thinking of making a (mostly) solid-state asterisk pbx. Take either centos or some other distro, cut it down to bare minimum and put asterisk + AMP on. Something that could be put onto a usb2.0 flash stick, bootable. Modern flash devices (usb, compactflash) have builtin wear leveling management and will last longer than you think: http://www.sandisk.com/pdf/oem/WPaperWearLevelv1.0.pdf Use ramdisk to store temporary files and flash to store permanent pbx configuration data, voicemail etc. Done right, one could literally have a "pbx on a stick". Eg a 256mb, 512mb or 1gb sandisk usb2.0 dongle. Anyone done something like this yet? -Dan _______________________________________________ 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 -- The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you received it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it.