Brian, I seem to get better hardware recognition and everything seems to work better. I don't know the details of the hardware recognition and the live CD may be just as good but my experience makes me feel the stock install handles the hardware better. thanks Stuart
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:52 PM, BRIAN GLACKIN<glackin.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > I find Stuart's preffered installation method helpful. > > One question Stuart. > > Do you use the live CD or a stock install of Ubuntu 6.06 or 8.04? > > Based on your notes, it would appear you use a stock install since you add > the install.sh script. > > If this is the case, I am assuming you have had better success with stock > installs over the live CD? > > Thanks. > > Brian > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Stuart Stevenson <stus...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well Richard I was just reading your posts and questions and realizing >> your LOST situation thought I could HELP a little. Sorry for bothering >> you. Do NOT worry it will NOT happen again. >> thank you very much >> Stuart >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Richard Acosta<eyela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > What has this anyhting to do about what i asked? >> > >> > >> > >> > El 25/06/2009 10:49 a.m., Stuart Stevenson escribió: >> >> Gentlemen, >> >> My personal preference for installing EMC2 is as follows: >> >> >> >> install a minimum of 256 mb ram >> >> try to use the motherboard video (keep as simple as possible) >> >> in bios - set parallel port to epp (I use Jon Elson's boards and they >> >> require EPP mode) >> >> load Ubuntu (6.06 LTS or 8.04 LTS) (depends on computer hardware) (for >> my >> >> touch screens I find 6.06 is the easiest to configure) >> >> update Ubuntu version to latest of the version >> >> configure everything in Ubuntu as desired (especially touch screens) >> >> download and run the install.sh for EMC2 >> >> restart computer >> >> start EMC2 from the menu to make sure it will run >> >> stop EMC2 >> >> git (a version) (I prefer trunk) >> >> follow wiki instructions for build prep >> >> go to src directory and configure (I always configure to run in place) >> >> look through the configure results to make sure configure found >> everything >> >> necessary >> >> if configure did not find everything then install packages to resolve >> >> dependencies and run configure again >> >> when configure has found everything then run 'make' >> >> when make has completed successfully then run 'sudo make setuid' >> >> go to the top level directory of the version you installed >> >> run 'scripts/emc' >> >> EMC2 should start and run >> >> if your touch screen was working before the EMC2 install - it will work >> now >> >> until you have your machine starting and running reliably you need to >> start >> >> EMC2 in a terminal so you can see the error messages - after you have >> your >> >> machine running you can copy the menu icon to your desktop and change >> the >> >> launch path to your compile version and use your icon to start EMC2 >> >> hth >> >> Stuart >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Emc-users mailing list >> > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> you can lead a person to knowledge >> but you cannot make him think >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > -- you can lead a person to knowledge but you cannot make him think ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
