[Asterisk-Users] FYI: Simple Small Asterisk install..

[John Todd]

At 3:41 PM +0000 11/19/03, WipeOut wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>If anyone is looking for a small Asterisk installation I have 
>managed to get it down to 296MB (If you remove the kernel source 
>code.. could probably be made smaller if some of the devel packages 
>and asterisk source is removed as well.)
>
>To do it I used Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 (http://www.trustix.net), 
>did a minimum install with ssh support(92MB) and then added the 
>required packages individually..
>
>Everything has compiled and Asterisk loads but I haven't tried any 
>Zaptel drivers or hardware so can't comment on that..
>
>Anyway if anyone needs a small secure install there it is..
>
>Later..

I would imagine that if you could get it into 256mb, that would be 
ideal, since it would fit into many flash disk chips, while 292mb 
means one would need to buy a 512mb chip (much more expensive.)

JT