On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Michael 'Moose' Dinn wrote:
If you need a rocksolid solution have a look at astlinux that can boot * from a compact flash card in read only mode which makes it very hard to break :)
You should be able to boot Asterisk using slackware as a base from a 64M CF card or even from a 64M bootable USB memory key. If you use ReiserFS or something similar for the drive that stores all your voicemail, etc then it should come back without a problem as well.
Indeed, I'm thinking of using 2 CompactFlash ATA disks. One fully read only with just a small partition writable that will keep /etc/asterisk (astlinux mounts read-only always and only mounts read-write if you need to change/save the config). No worries about unclean shutdown.
The second disk I will use for voicemail, and I can swap it every year before it wears down.
It's probably possible to do it with another distro too but astlinux is already pretty much finished :) And the cost of 512 Mb or 1 GB ATA flash is not much more than a McDonalds meal anyways (1GB is about USD 100 now)
For voicemail I could also use a microdrive but I'm not sure what will happen if it breaks and * tries to read/write from it. If that would bring the box down it's no solution.
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