I have an old broken laptop that I am attempting to turn into a mostly solid state Asterisk box, mainly because I am worried about the fans or hard drive in my other Asterisk box failing (I already lost one power supply). The laptop has no screen or hard drive. But it does have USB and a bootable CD-ROM drive. It is a Pentium 233, with 64 MB of RAM. I have a PCMCIA ethernet card in it. I hooked it up to a separate monitor. I booted knoppix 3.7 into CLI mode, and everything seemed to be working fine, including the network.
A full Asterisk install won't work on this computer, so I need something light. I had my eye on Astlinux, but it doesn't include PCMCIA support, which I need for my ethernet card. So I think I want to rebuild Astlinux to include PCMCIA support. Here is the thing: I have never done this before. I don't know a lot about linux. So I am asking for your advice: What is the best way for me to learn how to do this? I know I could find other solutions (I have considered running linux on a NSLU2). But I like the idea of making something out of my obsolete hardware. And I like the challenge and opportunity to learn something new. Would you smart linux people mind giving me some tips? Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
