<BR><B><I>"Tim St. Pierre" <tim@communicatefreely.net></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I'm just getting onto a similar path - although not with Asterisk.<BR><BR>When you say diskless, do you mean booting from a read-only device, or do you <BR>mean netbooting of some sort.<BR><BR>The big question, is what do you have available for storage?<BR><BR>There are lots of nice ways to make asterisk get configuration from a network, <BR>and return logs and CDRs there. Are you doing everything on a local CF card?<BR><BR>If that be the case, perhaps a file-backed ram disk for things like CDR and <BR>voicemail data. This could be set up to periodically write back to the flash <BR>memory. You could make it save the data on shutdown, but an unclean shutdown <BR>would cause you to lose voicemail and CDR information.<BR><BR>Either way, lots of ram is important.<BR><BR>If you are doing this on a scrap
computer, you can pick up an IDE to CF card <BR>adaptor pretty cheap (around $20) and build it on a CF card. Then when you <BR>do get that Soekris machine, just move the card over.<BR><BR>Good luck with it!<BR><BR>-Tim<BR><BR>On Sunday 06 April 2008 22:08, Frank Griffith wrote:<BR>> Okay, I know I'm probably pushing the envelope but I<BR>> did loads of experimenting with diskless setup this<BR>> past week. Getting past all the outdates docs, typos<BR>> and bad information was difficult, but this weekend I<BR>> got the diskless client to boot and got some of the<BR>> advanced configuration done with it. And I even got it<BR>> to work with 8.0-CURRENT.<BR>><BR>> Of course, now I would like to setup a diskless<BR>> machine to run Asterisk. I don't have any dough left<BR>> after paying my income tax to buy a Soekris box so I'm<BR>> making do with an older machine that has lost use of<BR>> it's hard drive.<BR>><BR>> Can anyone offer
me some pointers on how I could<BR>> advance this process. I like asterisk as my phone<BR>> system but the thought of having to buy hard drives<BR>> every few years is starting to make me think, who<BR>> needs them when the diskless process could take their place.<BR>><BR>><BR>> <BR>> ___________________________________________________________________________<BR>>_________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of<BR>> Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.<BR>> http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com<BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com--<BR>><BR>> Asterisk-BSD mailing list<BR>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<BR>> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd<BR><BR>-- <BR>Tim St. Pierre<BR><BR>IP telephony specialist<BR>sip://5101@communicatefreely.net<BR>Toronto: 647 722
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spinning a hard drive 24/7 just to be able to answer my phone calls.<p> 
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