Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject: [Asterisk-bsd] Diskless Asterisk Server
Okay, I'm back at the diskless setup again. I must confess that installing and running applications is not my specialty. But making diskless machines boot with anything from 6.x to 8.0-CURRENT is something I've gotten the hang of.
If someone could help me with how I would go about installing the Asterisk port or source to the /diskless root partition or perhaps how to link everything together so I could get a little better understanding of what's involved?
Personally, I like the idea of servers like my router and * being run from a server were I could make configs work for any machine I choose alot more than running dedicated machines with drives.
--- On Sat, 4/12/08, Frank Griffith <glassdude45@yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote:
From: Frank Griffith <glassdude45@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-bsd] Diskless Asterisk Server
To: "Asterisk on BSD discussion" <asterisk-bsd@lists.digium.com>
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2008, 9:21 AM
Quote:
--- Gerald A <geraldablists@gmail.com> wrote:
Quote:
Hi Frank,
On 4/6/08, Frank Griffith <glassdude45@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Okay, I know I'm probably pushing the envelope but
I
> did loads of experimenting with diskless setup
this
> past week. Getting past all the outdates docs,
typos
> and bad information was difficult, but this
weekend I
> got the diskless client to boot and got some of
the
> advanced configuration done with it. And I even
got it
> to work with 8.0-CURRENT.
I'm actually very interested in this work, as I did
have a working setup at
one time, but have been thinking about going back
and setting this up again.
> Of course, now I would like to setup a diskless
> machine to run Asterisk. I don't have any dough
left
> after paying my income tax to buy a Soekris box so
I'm
> making do with an older machine that has lost use
of
> it's hard drive.
>
> Can anyone offer me some pointers on how I could
> advance this process. I like asterisk as my phone
> system but the thought of having to buy hard
drives
> every few years is starting to make me think, who
> needs them when the diskless process could take
their place.
There are two things that you need to consider.
First is configuration. Diskless, in one way or
another, means that
you will only
have scarce local storage. I used to use floppies
for this, as they were cheap
easy to deploy. Nowadays I'd think about USB sticks.
You woldn't need much
for configs, considering that 512MB seems to be the
smallest they are selling
now.
The other thing is things generated from processes,
like logfiles and voicemail
and CDR's. If these aren't important, then you can
even forgo them. You might
want them, and someone else mentioned a database,
but you could even
do it with a network mount of some sort. I used NFS
in my deployments,
but SAMBA is also an option nowadays (if locking can
be done
properly).
I'd love to help/contribute and test. Let me know if
you'd like to
co-ordinate efforts.
Thanks,
Gerald.
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Oh yes, the reason I mentioned the FM radio card is
that our office has local FM radio stations running
for their moh but we don't use *. I'm eventually after
an * server that will use the sound card as it's
source for moh...and guess what I'm piping through my
sound card right now...my favorite local FM radio
stations. I've read about how someone did this with *
using Linux. Perhaps it can be done with FreeBSD too.
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