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

[Brian West]

Great news!!! Good Job!

/b

On Feb 17, 2009, at 5:43 PM, 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.

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