Hi Steve, Thank you for the reply and answers.
Questions inserted into your reply below. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Wille Padnos" <[email protected]> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] I was able to boot from the CD, thanks for all the information. > Jim Fleig - CNC Services wrote: > >>Many thanks for all the information. >> >>Is it possible to create a configuration and make a CD to demonstrate how >>a >>machine would function if retrofit with EMC? >> >> > You can't save a configuration to the CD, I'm not arguing. This is a sincere question. If a CD is a R/W CD, would it be possible to erase some of the applications that are not needed for EMC like Games? Would it be possible to erase configuration files that are not needed and write a configuration to a R/W CD? > but if you have a USB memory I do. > stick, you can make a copy of a config Does EMC have to be installed to create a config or can this be done while using the CD? > (in your home directory, which will be in ramdisk), I don't understand the statement about home directory and ramdisk. This is what I think I know: computer turns on, bios in a prom on the motherboard has a limited set of instructions that the computer follows to locate the OS that will run the computer, OS is found and takes over computer operation (example: XP). When the OS is up and running, then other programs can be selected which have commands of their own to use computer resources while the OS oversees all of the currently running programs. When a computer boots and the bios sees that there is a source of OS in the CD drive or on a USB channel, it allows that OS to run. Here is where it gets fuzzy for me. While running the Ubuntu CD it was possible to open the Word Processor application. If a document was created while that application was open would it be possible to save the document? If yes, where? If the CD being used were a R/W CD then it would make sense to me (although it might not actually work) that the created document could be saved on the CD. It doesn't make sense to me (keep in mind that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm just sharing my impression) that created data could be saved using the hard drive, a USB memory stick, a floppy drive (yes, I have one plugged into a USB port for old stuff I have to reference occassionally) or a second R/W CD drive. This doesn't make sense to me because I don't understand how the OS running on the CD would have the drivers to manage the USB ports, other CD drives, etc. > then copy that to the USB stick. Later, when you > go to do the demo, you can boot from liveCD, and copy the config back to > your ramdisk home directory and select it from the config picker. Once I understand the directions above this will probably be as simple for me as the file copy and paste that I do so often now. At the moment, I don't understand the statement above. What is the ramdisk home directory? > > There are other ways to do this which are more transparent (things > written to the file system automatically end up on the USB stick), but > that's a bit harder to set up and is probably not needed for this purpose. > > - Steve > Thank you for all of the explanation above. Ideally (I don't know if this is possible) it would be possible to send someone a CD, they would boot from the CD, EMC would auto load, they would be able to follow hardcopy instructions that came with the CD and perform manual and MDI functions and load a program and run it with EMC. Am I dreaming? If no, what is needed to make this happen? Thanks again for all of the answers. This is an area where I obviously am uneducated but willing to learn. :-) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with > Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code > to > build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of > local > resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK > and > Ajax docs to start building applications > today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
