[Asterisk-Users] What would be needed ..

[Asterisk]

I was thinking of going one step further and having the entire os + 
applications downloaded via tftp on server boot. A great way of being able 
to distribute new versions of the program / kernel etc. It would also mean 
that the server does not need a HDD.

One could then provide unique dial plans / conf files etc etc for each 
server (or have them served via msysql/postgresql) .

If you were running from ram (no HDD in the servers), then you could also 
ftp any monitor files to any target server.

But for me the main benefit would be that I could add another server simply 
by plugging it into the network. No more os installation, configuration etc 
etc. If one server went down, fire up another, and get the latest software 
and config.

Seems better and better ...

Julian.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Kohlsmith" <akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What would be needed ..


> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 13:51, Asterisk wrote:
>> What are the minimum software requirements to A) compile and B) run
>> Asterisk ?
>
> You need a standard development environment for A and as far as B is
> concerned, you should be able to figure that out with RPM -q and ldd.
>
>> I was thinking along the lines of having a chroot somewhere on one of my
>> Linux machines where I could compile and build not only asterisk, but the
>> kernel and other related stuff. This "build" would be packaged as an 
>> image
>> capable of booting from a USB / CD Rom or even tftp server.
>
> This is *exactly* what I do.  My asterisk boxes are minimal slackware 
> installs
> (500M, I could trim a lot out of that but haven't needed to) and I have a
> slack9.1 build environment on a USB hdd that I chroot to, cvs up, make new
> packages for and then push the packages out.  Piece of cake.
>
>> I *am* a total newbie when talking about this stuff, so please, no 
>> flames -
>> It's just an idea.
>
> It's a great idea and works very well.
>
> -A.
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