[Asterisk-Users] Small Linux Distro

[Sunrise Ltd]

>Does anyone have a current, stripped linux distro which
has only
>asterisk and net drivers?
>
>If so do you have it available somewhere?
>
>I guess also, my question could be, does anyone know of a
small
>distro, which will run asterisk.
>
>When I say small I mean <700Mb

We mostly use SuSE for building Asterisk servers and the
smallest you can do with the standard SuSE installer just
about fits onto 500MB. With a little bit of effort
removing more stuff you could easily fit everything into a
512MB compact flash card, including Asterisk and some free
space for logs and voicemail.

You might want to use an IDE/CF adapter that can hold two
CF cards. This way you could stick in a smaller second
card -say- 32 or 64MB and mount stuff like /etc/asterisk,
/var/log, /var/run and voicemail etc on that one, possibly
leaving the main card mounted read-only for most of the
time.

Also, keep in mind that you don't necessarily have to keep
kernel sources and development tools around, which can be
a siginficant reduction in required disk space.

If you have the time to put some more effort into this,
I'd recommend you look into Coyote Linux ...

http://www.coyotelinux.com

This is an embedded Linux distro put together by Joshua
Jackson for the purpose of creating very small footprint
firewall routers and VPN servers.

He's got three applications based on this so far, one is a
firewall that fits entirely onto a floppy disk, another is
a VPN server and firewall router that fits into a 32MB
compact flash card and the third one is an intrusion
detection system with similar properties.

With a bit of effort you could possibly build a very small
foot print (<=64MB ?) Asterisk server on top of Coyote
Linux.

Other places to check out are

http://www.siliconpenguin.com

http://www.embedded-linux.org

http://www.linuxdevices.com

rgds
benjk

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