[asterisk-users] PXE-bootable diskless Asterix distro?

[Michael Graves]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:34:45 +0100, Vincent wrote:

>Hello
>
>Since I got the IBM Netvista to boot Linux, and am still waiting for
>the Compact Flash cards that I ordered, I was wondering if someone
>knew of an Asterisk distribution that can run on that kind of diskless
>host?
>
>I've taken a look at AstLinux and AskoziaPBX, but they both seem to be
>meant to be installed on a solid-state medium instead of RAM. For
>instance, the Netvista is unable to uncompress a kernel, so expects
>"linux" instead of "vmlinuz", etc.
>
>Or is it trivial even for a non-guru like me to modify such light
>Asterisk distros to run diskless?

I'm not at all certain what you need to change on the hardware, but it
seems to me it should be trivial. Perhaps something in the BIOS? 

I've used both H-P and Neoware hardware with no problem at all. I
usually just set the BIOS to boot from a USB attached disk, then burn a
USB key from and Astlinix or Askozia image. There's nothing all that
special about the hardware. It's just a PC without a disk. 

PXE booting is really about having the boot image remoted from the
host. That might be convenient for some people because can switch out
or edit boot images easily. To my mind it has a a lot of administrative
overhead. But I'm no Linux guru. I find it easier to swap out USB boot
keys.

Michael 
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