Asterisk Bootable CDROM

Boot and run Asterisk from a bootable CDROM.
Variable information (config files, network settings, etc) are typically stored on a USB Flash drive or floppy.
There are many Live CD Linux distributions that use this model. The well known being http://www.knoppix.org/.

Asterisk Live CD distributions

• Asterisk Live!
• Celliax LiveCD, with a working installation of Celliax (Asterisk + chan_celliax and configuration utilities) based on Knoppix. The Celliax LiveCD contains also all is needed to run Celliax on Windows: the cygwin installer and the tgz with the asterisk-celliax stuff to be untarred in a basic cygwin installation.
• CosmoPBX is a Live CD released under GNU/GPL by VoIP-OutSourcing.com based on Knoppix and includes latest Asterisk 1.4 and Asterisk-GUI <= last update in 2007
• kasterx

Some of the distributions listed above may have also have the ability to install and run from a hard drive.

See Also:

• Asterisk Install CDROM Simultaneously install O/S and Asterisk

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