--- Gerald A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Frank, > > On 4/6/08, Frank Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Okay, I know I'm probably pushing the envelope but > I > > did loads of experimenting with diskless setup > this > > past week. Getting past all the outdates docs, > typos > > and bad information was difficult, but this > weekend I > > got the diskless client to boot and got some of > the > > advanced configuration done with it. And I even > got it > > to work with 8.0-CURRENT. > > I'm actually very interested in this work, as I did > have a working setup at > one time, but have been thinking about going back > and setting this up again. > > > Of course, now I would like to setup a diskless > > machine to run Asterisk. I don't have any dough > left > > after paying my income tax to buy a Soekris box so > I'm > > making do with an older machine that has lost use > of > > it's hard drive. > > > > Can anyone offer me some pointers on how I could > > advance this process. I like asterisk as my phone > > system but the thought of having to buy hard > drives > > every few years is starting to make me think, who > > needs them when the diskless process could take > their place. > > There are two things that you need to consider. > First is configuration. Diskless, in one way or > another, means that > you will only > have scarce local storage. I used to use floppies > for this, as they were cheap > easy to deploy. Nowadays I'd think about USB sticks. > You woldn't need much > for configs, considering that 512MB seems to be the > smallest they are selling > now. > > The other thing is things generated from processes, > like logfiles and voicemail > and CDR's. If these aren't important, then you can > even forgo them. You might > want them, and someone else mentioned a database, > but you could even > do it with a network mount of some sort. I used NFS > in my deployments, > but SAMBA is also an option nowadays (if locking can > be done > properly). > > I'd love to help/contribute and test. Let me know if > you'd like to > co-ordinate efforts. > > Thanks, > Gerald. > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by > http://www.api-digital.com-- > > Asterisk-BSD mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd >
Thanks for your replie everyone. This is something I've been trying for quite a while and need a little more technical advice to get working. First off, Richard is right, 8.0-CURRENT is not the test bed we should be using. It's running quite well on my main server doing dhcpd, apache, etc...it also it doing a nice job playing mp3's and soothing my work hours using an FM radio card. The only thing I've noticed so far with 8.0-CURRENT is the pesky debug messages that keep coming up, but that's the way the developers get input for help. I recompiled the kernel for the diskless machine with debugging turned off but if we do this then I have no problem building a 7.0-RELEASE or -STABLE machine. Gerald, yes I would be glad to colaborate with you and lets see how far we can get it. I'm in the * chat room on freenode once in a while. Let's set up a time to meet there and then start talking about how to proceed. I will wager that Richard and some others will be willing to offer seasoned advice. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- Asterisk-BSD mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd
