[Freeswitch-users] Anyone running FS from a Thumb Flash USB?

[Gabriel Kuri]

awesome work! on a slightly related [embedded] note, do you know if any
work has been done to port FS to any of the Analog Blackfin MCUs? I'd be
interested in hearing if anyone has had any such luck.

Gabe

Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
> FreeSWITCH now compiles in AsLinux:
> 
> http://www.astlinux.org
> 
> AstLinux with the new bootloader Runnix (or you could just use
> syslinux) boots from flash.  It also boots from PXE, ISO, disk, etc.
> Pretty much anything :).
> 
> FreeSWITCH (compiled against uClibc) is about 3.3MB and as Tony
> pointed out, mod_sofia is 1.2MB of that.  The sample configs and
> sounds are much larger.  Luckily the sounds compress well with
> something like squashfs.
> 
> Put it this way:
> 
> - Default AstLinux install (quite a bit of stuff these days)
> - FreeSWITCH (default mods + mod_xml_curl, -spidermonkey, but w/ lua,
> snom, vmd, and others)
> - Sample configs (pretty big too but also compress well)
> - 8k Sounds (HUGE, but compress well)
> - Native sounds (G723, G729, GSM, PCMU, PCMA all 8K obviously)
> 
>   Results in a squashfs disk image of about 41MB.  You could run off a
> 64MB flash drive and have plenty left over for your union filesystem
> (configs, etc). :)
> 
>   Be aware that if you are going to run from such a config we
> recommend the default (which is to run AstLinux from RAM).  Otherwise
> you take quite a hit reading audio from a squashfs filesystem.
> 
>   If you want an ISO to boot on a generic machine (VMware, virtualbox,
> etc work too) let me know.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:50 AM, EdPimentl <edpimentl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello FS Members,
>>
>> Are there any example of FS running on a Thumb Flash USB?
>> Thanks in advance,
>> -E
>>
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