Hugh, Hugh Currin wrote: > Dave, Rafael, Chris, Kyle & Ray: > > Thank you. I've made some progress. > > Great. > 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 >
I was not sure what kind of system you have. > 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 think you mean K3b. I like it a lot. Saves on CD usage :-) > 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. > > That's excellent idea. > 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. > > I agree. Using virtual machines in CNC is not good at this point. We might be able to do that when multicore CPUs handle virtual machines in native mode, but that's still some time away for most of us. > 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. > > You are way ahead of me. I still need to learn ALL about EMC. Tried it few years back but my hardware did not support RH6.2 or the other way around and I gave up. > 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. > > One thing I left out about partitions last time. I (and likely many others) have the following way to deal with this: hda1 / 350 - 500 MB hda2 /usr 2- 3 GB hda3 swap 2x RAM to 1GB hda5 /var 500 - 1.3 GB hda6 /tmp 500MB hda7 /home rest of the drive I link /var/cache/apt to /home/var.apt most of the time. This makes it possible to secure the system and make it possible to upgrade or reload OS without messing up user files since it's possible to preserve /home (hda7) during OS (re)install. I used different Linux distributions on my workstation without reinstalling my personal files for years. Of course, backups are still needed. Another advantage of that scheme is that if something goes wrong, not all partitions get affected at the same time. Chances are /home will survive :-) From the edge of Silicon Valley, -- Rafael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
