On Monday 17 December 2007, Drew Rogge wrote:
>Thanks Gene. I hit a roadblock this weekend with the machine I wanted
>to use for EMC. It's an IBM ZPro, 2.88Ghz and should work. The machine
>has SCSI drives in it and that may be the problem. So far it's not a
>problem with EMC, I couldn't even get the Ubunto 6.06 Live CD to
>install. I may try picking up a PCI ATA disk drive today if I can't
>find any info here at work.
>
I didn't think scsi was a problem. Unless 6.06's default config doesn't
include the driver for that particular IBM card, that could be a
possibility.
Do you know that cards lspci details? Interesting, but then IBM has made some
custom one-offs before too.
>Drew
>
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Its startup curve is a bit steep. When you install, make sure you also
>> install an IRC client, there is a continuous presence of the developers on
>> freenode, /join #emc. You will usually get good answers to newbee
>> questions in a minute or so. For the initial config for your machine,
>> there are instructions in the wiki at linuxcnc.org that are pretty well
>> spot on.
--
Cheers, Gene
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