John Novack wrote: >> I have some other thin clients coming, and one available with more >> memory and a larger flash, so I may try the same on those to either >> determine the problem or confuse me even more! >> >> Thanks again for AstLinux - I have another machine up and running with >> it and it works very well. >> >> John Novack >> > Well, sure enough, once I got it through my thick head, turns out the > flash is bad, or partially so, making it unusable. > With a good flash, all goes well and the installation is successful. > > Question: > Since the install makes a 67 meg or so partition on a 256 Meg Flash, is > there any reason the remaining can't be used for the Keydisk? > I know all of this stuff has a limit on the number of writes, but isn't > that number quite large> If there is no swap, and little or no voice > mail, shouldn't it work just as well as a USB keydisk?
John, Glad you figured it out. You most certainly can use the remaining disk as your key disk. This is made easier if you use the runnix boot loader. There haven't been published Astlinux images (you'd have to build or have someone build an image from trunk or the asterisk-beta branch). Basically the benefit is you don't need to use dd or any other utility to write the image to the storage device. Upgrading is as simple as copying a few files into a directory and rebooting. The new images are created as squashfs images which will either be mounted on a loop device or copied into ram, depending on the amount of system memory available. I plan on providing some images shortly based on what will become the 0.5 release. There is more information on Runnix including a how to on the Astlinux web page (http://www.astlinux.org) under the documentation section. If you have questions after reading that, feel free to hollar. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
