[Asterisk-Users] solid-state asterisk pbx?

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, quoth asterisk at anime.net:

> I've been thinking of making a (mostly) solid-state asterisk pbx.
>
> Take either centos or some other distro, cut it down to bare minimum and
> put asterisk + AMP on. Something that could be put onto a usb2.0 flash
> stick, bootable.
>
> Anyone done something like this yet?

Yes, I installed asterisk (Debian packages) on pebble[0] linux
on a flash drive in a VIA Eden based system.

This was one of those 800MB laptop-ide-emulating[1] flash drives, but the
full install was 127MB so you could easily install it on a 256MB usb stick
or similar.

It's useful running asterisk on a read-only distribution like that, since
it is resilient to people powering the system on and off without shutting
it down first.

 - Matt

[0] http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/
[1] as in, it looks just like a laptop HDD, but is solid state internally.