Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Why can't the list manage these reply to: headers. Grrr... On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 13:40 -0800, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > Yakout Esmat wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > We build and distribute Asterisk-based PBXes, I guess like many > > others. What we are looking for is to standardize our hardware > > platform, which makes backup/restore, replacement etcmuch easier > > than using normal PC/Server hardware. > > > > > > > > My questions: > > > > > > > > 1- Can we install standard CentOS 5.x on the Soekris 5501? > > > No. CentOS 5 assumes a processor class (686) that isn't available. It is > theoretically possible to rebuild 5 for the 586, but difficult. CentOS 4 > works, although one of the last CentOS 4 releases was accidentally built > for 686-only, so you might need to go back a rev if they haven't fixed that. They may have listened to you. Today's update has replaced kernel.i686 with kernel.i386. Might be a bit of a hassle to install, but could well be supported from then on. Steve -- Steve Holdoway http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Yakout Esmat wrote: > With VMWare, which disk type should we use IDE or SCSI? scsi is the default, you want ide... joel > -Original Message- > From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joe...@bogus.com] > Sent: Friday, 6 November 2009 10:56 a.m. > To: Yakout Esmat > Cc: 'Bill Maas'; soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > Subject: Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS > > Rhel-5 has been run on the 5501. At some point it required that the > kernel rpm by recompiled or that the powernow_k8 module be blacklisted > in orderto to preclude a geode specific oops, don't know if that was > still the case. > > Regarding installation to a cf card it's pretty trivial to create a > system eqivalent to a 5501 in vmware (remeber the ide vs scsi disk) > build and modify to your hearts content and then simply dd the system on > to an appropiately sized cf card... There are other ways, redhat can > been network booted and installed etc. > > joel > > Yakout Esmat wrote: >> Hi Bill, >> >> Thanks for your prompt answer. >> >> It's a shame that we are limited to kind of older Oss like CentOS4 for >> example. But as you said, this post is quite old and could be outdated. >> Let's see if anyone has an update. >> >> I agree CF is probably the most convenient, but how do you get any OS on any >> CF before installing it onto the board? >> >> Our software is loaded onto DVD and is about 2GB in size and i thought that >> booting from the external DVD would work... >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Bill Maas [mailto:b...@stsx.org] >> Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 9:16 a.m. >> To: Yakout Esmat >> Cc: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com >> Subject: Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS >> >> Hi Yakout, >> >> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:00 +1300, Yakout Esmat wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> >>> >>> We build and distribute Asterisk-based PBXes, I guess like many >>> others. What we are looking for is to standardize our hardware >>> platform, which makes backup/restore, replacement etcmuch easier >>> than using normal PC/Server hardware. >>> >>> >>> >>> My questions: >>> >>> >>> >>> 1- Can we install standard CentOS 5.x on the Soekris 5501? >> No, according to >> http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2007-May/012031.html >> But that message may obviously be outdated. >> >>> 2- Can we boot from an external USB DVD just like we can with a >>> standard PC? >> No, you have the choice between CF, HDD and network. CF is quite >> convenient, actually. >> >>> 3- Is there any intention to build boards with faster CPU, like >>> 1Ghz for example? >> Only Soren can answer that question. >> >> >> Bill >> >>> >>> >>> Thanks for your help. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ___ >>> Soekris-tech mailing list >>> Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com >>> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >> >> ___ >> Soekris-tech mailing list >> Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >> > > ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
With VMWare, which disk type should we use IDE or SCSI? -Original Message- From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joe...@bogus.com] Sent: Friday, 6 November 2009 10:56 a.m. To: Yakout Esmat Cc: 'Bill Maas'; soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com Subject: Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS Rhel-5 has been run on the 5501. At some point it required that the kernel rpm by recompiled or that the powernow_k8 module be blacklisted in orderto to preclude a geode specific oops, don't know if that was still the case. Regarding installation to a cf card it's pretty trivial to create a system eqivalent to a 5501 in vmware (remeber the ide vs scsi disk) build and modify to your hearts content and then simply dd the system on to an appropiately sized cf card... There are other ways, redhat can been network booted and installed etc. joel Yakout Esmat wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Thanks for your prompt answer. > > It's a shame that we are limited to kind of older Oss like CentOS4 for > example. But as you said, this post is quite old and could be outdated. > Let's see if anyone has an update. > > I agree CF is probably the most convenient, but how do you get any OS on any > CF before installing it onto the board? > > Our software is loaded onto DVD and is about 2GB in size and i thought that > booting from the external DVD would work... > > -Original Message- > From: Bill Maas [mailto:b...@stsx.org] > Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 9:16 a.m. > To: Yakout Esmat > Cc: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > Subject: Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS > > Hi Yakout, > > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:00 +1300, Yakout Esmat wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> We build and distribute Asterisk-based PBXes, I guess like many >> others. What we are looking for is to standardize our hardware >> platform, which makes backup/restore, replacement etcmuch easier >> than using normal PC/Server hardware. >> >> >> >> My questions: >> >> >> >> 1- Can we install standard CentOS 5.x on the Soekris 5501? > > No, according to > http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2007-May/012031.html > But that message may obviously be outdated. > >> 2- Can we boot from an external USB DVD just like we can with a >> standard PC? > > No, you have the choice between CF, HDD and network. CF is quite > convenient, actually. > >> 3- Is there any intention to build boards with faster CPU, like >> 1Ghz for example? > > Only Soren can answer that question. > > > Bill > >> >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> >> >> >> ___ >> Soekris-tech mailing list >> Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > > > ___ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Rhel-5 has been run on the 5501. At some point it required that the kernel rpm by recompiled or that the powernow_k8 module be blacklisted in orderto to preclude a geode specific oops, don't know if that was still the case. Regarding installation to a cf card it's pretty trivial to create a system eqivalent to a 5501 in vmware (remeber the ide vs scsi disk) build and modify to your hearts content and then simply dd the system on to an appropiately sized cf card... There are other ways, redhat can been network booted and installed etc. joel Yakout Esmat wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Thanks for your prompt answer. > > It's a shame that we are limited to kind of older Oss like CentOS4 for > example. But as you said, this post is quite old and could be outdated. > Let's see if anyone has an update. > > I agree CF is probably the most convenient, but how do you get any OS on any > CF before installing it onto the board? > > Our software is loaded onto DVD and is about 2GB in size and i thought that > booting from the external DVD would work... > > -Original Message- > From: Bill Maas [mailto:b...@stsx.org] > Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 9:16 a.m. > To: Yakout Esmat > Cc: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > Subject: Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS > > Hi Yakout, > > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:00 +1300, Yakout Esmat wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> We build and distribute Asterisk-based PBXes, I guess like many >> others. What we are looking for is to standardize our hardware >> platform, which makes backup/restore, replacement etcmuch easier >> than using normal PC/Server hardware. >> >> >> >> My questions: >> >> >> >> 1- Can we install standard CentOS 5.x on the Soekris 5501? > > No, according to > http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2007-May/012031.html > But that message may obviously be outdated. > >> 2- Can we boot from an external USB DVD just like we can with a >> standard PC? > > No, you have the choice between CF, HDD and network. CF is quite > convenient, actually. > >> 3- Is there any intention to build boards with faster CPU, like >> 1Ghz for example? > > Only Soren can answer that question. > > > Bill > >> >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> >> >> >> ___ >> Soekris-tech mailing list >> Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > > > ___ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Interestingso what you are saying is we can load CentOS5.x on a Soekris net5501? -Original Message- From: Steve Clark [mailto:scl...@netwolves.com] Sent: Friday, 6 November 2009 1:54 a.m. To: Yakout Esmat Cc: 'Bill Maas'; soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com Subject: Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS Hmmm We are running standard Centos 5.3 on two different geode boxes - one a 5501 the other an acrosser ar-m9952a of CF that we loaded via an $8 CF to IDE adapter. Steve On 11/05/2009 04:38 AM, Yakout Esmat wrote: > The software that we run is a specific Asterik based PBX, which was > developed and tested on CentOS. There is no doubt we could run Asterisk on > Ubuntu or OpenBSD but that requires new trials etc... > > I agree with you that the limiting factor here is performance. > > Would definitely like to hear from anyone running asterisk on net 5501, > would like to know how many concurrent calls it an handle etc... > > > > -Original Message- > From: Bill Maas [mailto:b...@stsx.org] > Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 9:44 p.m. > To: Yakout Esmat > Cc: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > Subject: RE: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS > > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:48 +1300, Yakout Esmat wrote: >> Hi Bill, >> >> Thanks for your prompt answer. >> >> It's a shame that we are limited to kind of older Oss like CentOS4 for >> example. But as you said, this post is quite old and could be outdated. >> Let's see if anyone has an update. > > That's a CentOS issue, not a Soekris one. You can run the latest OpenBSD > for example on any Soekris box if you like. According to that message, > the main problem with CentOS 5 appears to be that it's is/was compiled > for i686 (?), but the CentOS download page mentions i386, so maybe > things have changed there. > >> I agree CF is probably the most convenient, but how do you get any OS on > any >> CF before installing it onto the board? > > Ease of installation depends on the OS. For the BSD's there are > installation scripts readily available for burning CFs locally (e.g. on > a laptop), and with both OpenBSD and Debian installation over the > network is really easy. I've never installed CentOS, so I don't know > about that. Maybe consider switching to Debian or Gentoo, both have a > considerable Soekris-minded user base. > >> Our software is loaded onto DVD and is about 2GB in size and i thought > that >> booting from the external DVD would work... > > You could copy it to CF or disk. With CF you can keep one or more backup > boot images in case anything goes wrong (requires some [un]screwing;), > and it won't cost you a lot. > > With an extra HDD you can keep OS and data fully separated. This can be > especially useful if the OS will let you mount / read-only in a more or > less convenient way - but that too depends on the OS. Linux isn't very > RO-root-friendly. > > > Bill > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Bill Maas [mailto:b...@stsx.org] >> Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 9:16 a.m. >> To: Yakout Esmat >> Cc: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com >> Subject: Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS >> >> Hi Yakout, >> >> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:00 +1300, Yakout Esmat wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> >>> >>> We build and distribute Asterisk-based PBXes, I guess like many >>> others. What we are looking for is to standardize our hardware >>> platform, which makes backup/restore, replacement etcmuch easier >>> than using normal PC/Server hardware. >>> >>> >>> >>> My questions: >>> >>> >>> >>> 1- Can we install standard CentOS 5.x on the Soekris 5501? >> >> No, according to >> http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2007-May/012031.html >> But that message may obviously be outdated. >> >>> 2- Can we boot from an external USB DVD just like we can with a >>> standard PC? >> >> No, you have the choice between CF, HDD and network. CF is quite >> convenient, actually. >> >>> 3- Is there any intention to build boards with faster CPU, like >>> 1Ghz for example? >> >> Only Soren can answer that question. >> >> >> Bill >> >>> >>> >>> Thanks for your help. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ___ >>> Soekris-tech mailing list >>> Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com >>> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >> >> > > > ___ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Might i suggest going with something more heavy duty, like some of the ATOM based boards. They are pretty much comparable in price, and give you a lot more power. that said, soekris boards are great for what they are. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:15 PM, RB wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 15:19, Yakout Esmat wrote: >> Well...not having the flexibility to run one of the most common Linux >> distros puts a damper on the whole thing. > > Unfortunately, RHEL/CentOS isn't terribly common in the embedded > world, which is where these low-powered systems lie. When the most > basic installation of a distribution takes over 1GB disk space and > they've made extremely narrow assumptions about processors and memory, > it doesn't get very far. Redhat is certainly free to make those > decisions, but by doing so have aimed themselves at the server market > and away from the embedded one. To make it perfectly clear: it was > Redhat's choice to leave the very much alive-and-well i586 market out, > not the other way around. > > As was noted, since many of the other most common Linux distros > (Ubuntu, SUSE, even RedHat's experimental branch Fedora) as well as > the 3 largest BSDs support Asterisk and the Geode, I find it hard to > complain that a single server-oriented distribution does not. > ___ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > -- Random quote of the week/month/whenever i get to updating it: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?": "who shall watch the watchers themselves?" - Juvenal ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 15:19, Yakout Esmat wrote: > Well...not having the flexibility to run one of the most common Linux > distros puts a damper on the whole thing. Unfortunately, RHEL/CentOS isn't terribly common in the embedded world, which is where these low-powered systems lie. When the most basic installation of a distribution takes over 1GB disk space and they've made extremely narrow assumptions about processors and memory, it doesn't get very far. Redhat is certainly free to make those decisions, but by doing so have aimed themselves at the server market and away from the embedded one. To make it perfectly clear: it was Redhat's choice to leave the very much alive-and-well i586 market out, not the other way around. As was noted, since many of the other most common Linux distros (Ubuntu, SUSE, even RedHat's experimental branch Fedora) as well as the 3 largest BSDs support Asterisk and the Geode, I find it hard to complain that a single server-oriented distribution does not. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Well...not having the flexibility to run one of the most common Linux distros puts a damper on the whole thing. But I thank you very much for your feedback. I guess it is easy to image a standard install onto these CF cards using dd. -Original Message- From: Matthew Kaufman [mailto:matt...@matthew.at] Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 10:44 a.m. To: Yakout Esmat Cc: 'Bill Maas'; soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com Subject: Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS Yakout Esmat wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Thanks for your prompt answer. > > It's a shame that we are limited to kind of older Oss like CentOS4 for > example. But as you said, this post is quite old and could be outdated. > Let's see if anyone has an update. > The issue is 686 vs 586. Ubuntu has much newer 586 releases than CentOS does, just FYI. > I agree CF is probably the most convenient, but how do you get any OS on any > CF before installing it onto the board? > 1. Boot from network and write to the CF, or 2. Put the CF via a PATA or SATA adapter into another machine and install onto it or, 3. Put the CF via a PATA or SATA adapter into another machine and dd another disk or image onto it or, 4. Put the CF via a USB adapter into another machine and dd another disk or image onto it My personal favorite is that I run a VMWare system that has a disk a little smaller than the CF card, I install on VMWare, set everything up just write, then use dd to copy the virtual drive right over to the CF card inserted into a USB adapter. a 2 or 4 GB card takes less than a minute, and you can tweak settings for each one if you're making a few dozen at a time. > Our software is loaded onto DVD and is about 2GB in size and i thought that > booting from the external DVD would work... > Won't. But you can get that 2GB onto a CF card pretty trivially. Matthew Kaufman ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Hi, On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:40:50PM -0800, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > > 3- Is there any intention to build boards with faster CPU, like > > 1Ghz for example? > > > > > > > This is a user/developer list, not the maker of the devices. http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2009-January/015444.html -- JFS ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Yakout Esmat wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Thanks for your prompt answer. > > It's a shame that we are limited to kind of older Oss like CentOS4 for > example. But as you said, this post is quite old and could be outdated. > Let's see if anyone has an update. > The issue is 686 vs 586. Ubuntu has much newer 586 releases than CentOS does, just FYI. > I agree CF is probably the most convenient, but how do you get any OS on any > CF before installing it onto the board? > 1. Boot from network and write to the CF, or 2. Put the CF via a PATA or SATA adapter into another machine and install onto it or, 3. Put the CF via a PATA or SATA adapter into another machine and dd another disk or image onto it or, 4. Put the CF via a USB adapter into another machine and dd another disk or image onto it My personal favorite is that I run a VMWare system that has a disk a little smaller than the CF card, I install on VMWare, set everything up just write, then use dd to copy the virtual drive right over to the CF card inserted into a USB adapter. a 2 or 4 GB card takes less than a minute, and you can tweak settings for each one if you're making a few dozen at a time. > Our software is loaded onto DVD and is about 2GB in size and i thought that > booting from the external DVD would work... > Won't. But you can get that 2GB onto a CF card pretty trivially. Matthew Kaufman ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Yakout Esmat wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > We build and distribute Asterisk-based PBXes, I guess like many > others. What we are looking for is to standardize our hardware > platform, which makes backup/restore, replacement etcmuch easier > than using normal PC/Server hardware. > > > > My questions: > > > > 1- Can we install standard CentOS 5.x on the Soekris 5501? > No. CentOS 5 assumes a processor class (686) that isn't available. It is theoretically possible to rebuild 5 for the 586, but difficult. CentOS 4 works, although one of the last CentOS 4 releases was accidentally built for 686-only, so you might need to go back a rev if they haven't fixed that. > > 2- Can we boot from an external USB DVD just like we can with a > standard PC? > No. CF, disk, or network. > > 3- Is there any intention to build boards with faster CPU, like > 1Ghz for example? > > > This is a user/developer list, not the maker of the devices. Matthew Kaufman ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Typically via PXE or you can build your CF while its mounted on a "traditional" PC using a PATA or SATA to CF adaptor. -Original Message- From: Yakout Esmat Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:50 PM To: 'Bill Maas' Cc: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com Subject: Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS Hi Bill, Thanks for your prompt answer. It's a shame that we are limited to kind of older Oss like CentOS4 for example. But as you said, this post is quite old and could be outdated. Let's see if anyone has an update. I agree CF is probably the most convenient, but how do you get any OS on any CF before installing it onto the board? Our software is loaded onto DVD and is about 2GB in size and i thought that booting from the external DVD would work... -Original Message- From: Bill Maas [mailto:b...@stsx.org] Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 9:16 a.m. To: Yakout Esmat Cc: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com Subject: Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS Hi Yakout, On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:00 +1300, Yakout Esmat wrote: > Hi All, > > > > We build and distribute Asterisk-based PBXes, I guess like many > others. What we are looking for is to standardize our hardware > platform, which makes backup/restore, replacement etcmuch easier > than using normal PC/Server hardware. > > > > My questions: > > > > 1- Can we install standard CentOS 5.x on the Soekris 5501? No, according to http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2007-May/012031.html But that message may obviously be outdated. > 2- Can we boot from an external USB DVD just like we can with a > standard PC? No, you have the choice between CF, HDD and network. CF is quite convenient, actually. > 3- Is there any intention to build boards with faster CPU, like > 1Ghz for example? Only Soren can answer that question. Bill > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > > ___ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Hi Bill, Thanks for your prompt answer. It's a shame that we are limited to kind of older Oss like CentOS4 for example. But as you said, this post is quite old and could be outdated. Let's see if anyone has an update. I agree CF is probably the most convenient, but how do you get any OS on any CF before installing it onto the board? Our software is loaded onto DVD and is about 2GB in size and i thought that booting from the external DVD would work... -Original Message- From: Bill Maas [mailto:b...@stsx.org] Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2009 9:16 a.m. To: Yakout Esmat Cc: soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com Subject: Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS Hi Yakout, On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:00 +1300, Yakout Esmat wrote: > Hi All, > > > > We build and distribute Asterisk-based PBXes, I guess like many > others. What we are looking for is to standardize our hardware > platform, which makes backup/restore, replacement etcmuch easier > than using normal PC/Server hardware. > > > > My questions: > > > > 1- Can we install standard CentOS 5.x on the Soekris 5501? No, according to http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2007-May/012031.html But that message may obviously be outdated. > 2- Can we boot from an external USB DVD just like we can with a > standard PC? No, you have the choice between CF, HDD and network. CF is quite convenient, actually. > 3- Is there any intention to build boards with faster CPU, like > 1Ghz for example? Only Soren can answer that question. Bill > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > > ___ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Hi Yakout, On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:00 +1300, Yakout Esmat wrote: > Hi All, > > > > We build and distribute Asterisk-based PBXes, I guess like many > others. What we are looking for is to standardize our hardware > platform, which makes backup/restore, replacement etcmuch easier > than using normal PC/Server hardware. > > > > My questions: > > > > 1- Can we install standard CentOS 5.x on the Soekris 5501? No, according to http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2007-May/012031.html But that message may obviously be outdated. > 2- Can we boot from an external USB DVD just like we can with a > standard PC? No, you have the choice between CF, HDD and network. CF is quite convenient, actually. > 3- Is there any intention to build boards with faster CPU, like > 1Ghz for example? Only Soren can answer that question. Bill > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > > ___ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
[Soekris] Loading standard CentOS
Hi All, We build and distribute Asterisk-based PBXes, I guess like many others. What we are looking for is to standardize our hardware platform, which makes backup/restore, replacement etcmuch easier than using normal PC/Server hardware. My questions: 1- Can we install standard CentOS 5.x on the Soekris 5501? 2- Can we boot from an external USB DVD just like we can with a standard PC? 3- Is there any intention to build boards with faster CPU, like 1Ghz for example? Thanks for your help. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
