<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>> Boot it off flash and have it load an initrd.gz into RAM. Everything will<br>>> run entirely from RAM - no writes to the flash at all! I can get
<br>>> everything inside a 48MB flash drive, but I use 64MB ones which gives me<br>>> space to store configs, etc.. (of-course, I make it sound so simple ;-)<br>>> but I'd already worked this out some years back for a diskless router
<br>>> project)<br>><br>> I'm guessing you don't have any sort of graphical UI? I was hoping to run<br>> freepbx in<br>> some way - probably have the mysql database stuff stored somewhere else..
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<br>In the 64MB flash devices I use, I can squeeze in a fairly full featured<br>Linux system (and I've not even bothered with uClib or busybox yet)<br>including apache and php. I don't use mysql, and I removed PERL. My web
<br>based GUI stores everything in flat text files, and generates the relevant<br>/etc/asterisk files from these text files. It's very fast and without<br>MySQL is one less thing to go wrong. (And I suspect my aplication is
<br>actually lot faster than going through a MySQL layer too!) I did test the<br>speed of this by generating config files with 1000 users and there wasn't<br>an issue handling it. (other than having a list of 1000 names on screen
<br>which wasn't helpful!)<br></blockquote></div><br><br>Is your GUI something you wrote yourself or something that's commercially available?<br>I'm using freePBX on all of my installs and while it lets you do almost everything from the interface I've come to find it's not very user-friendly for novices not to mention having to have mysql as a back-end. I've been looking for a leaner - more simplistic GUI but haven't really come across anything. Maybe Digiums own GUI will meet the needs for this at some point..
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