Dave, Rafael, Chris, Kyle & Ray: Thank you. I've made some progress.
I couldn't get "cdrecord -scanbus" to work. I think this is due to the ATAPI (not SCSI) drive but am not sure. I finally fired up "X cd-roast" and found the CD-RW address. (I'd looked here before but didn't see a clear way to burn an *.iso). In running "cdrecord -v dev=?,?,? *iso" I found my CD-RW wasn't empty. On the way to erasing it I installed "k2d". I like this much better than "X cd-roast". It easily erased my CD-RW and I found it easy to burn the *.iso from "k2d". I like this program. I decided to dedicate a removable drive bay to this CNC machine. That solved the dual-boot question. I'll keep separate hard drives for the different operating systems. When I have time to play I'll load DOS and possibly windows on separate drives. I have an old DOS CNC program and I may want to try MACH in the future. The removable bay is a clean solution. This is for CNC operation and I'm hesitant to use VMWare or similar here. This one is a dedicated CNC machine. I use a Linux machine mostly but need a Windows box for generating G-code and checking Word & PowerPoint files. I use VariCAD on the linux machine for CAD. SO, Ubuntu Live loaded without problem. It even recognized all my hardware, a minor miracle. Pushing the "Install" button also worked. It installed on a 30Gb drive, small swap with the rest one large root partition. The machine is a 1Gb Pentium III with 386MB memory. It seems to be functional. It'll be a while before I get around to connecting it to my machine, just a matter of finding the time. So I'm not sure EMC is functional but the GUI comes up. I'll be back with more questions when I start to configure it. Ray: Yes, much easier. Less than 6 hours to install and that mostly waiting for a download, Ubuntu Live and the disk formating. Last time it took 3+ weeks. This is way cool. :-) Thank you. -- Hugh Currin Klamath Falls, OR USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
