Works out of the box running sim inside a VMware machine btw. On 06/09/10 18:54, Alex Joni wrote: > As most of you probably know, the latest version of Ubuntu has been released > a couple months ago: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. > (http://www.canonical.com/news/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-edition) > > As it is another LTS release (3 year support on the Desktop version - which > we use), we consider that it's important to have emc2 packages (along with > the needed infrastructure: patched kernel, rtai, etc) for it. > > Our special thanks go to Moses McKnight (mozmck) who took the time (and > responsability) to go through the daunting process of building all the > packages > and putting everything together in form of this LiveCD. > > Now we have: binary packages, a repository for them, and a LiveCD for > easy testing and install. > (this procedure took a longer period of time, until the packages/LiveCD were > free of issues, and I would like to thank all testers that helped during > this process). > > == note == > > Before describing download and install procedures I would like to point out > that at this point the packages have been tested by a large number of > people, and only a very few problems have been reported so far (on some > exotic hardware with 6 core CPUs). > > However I do not encourage at this point to replace a working hardy install > with the new lucid version, unless there is really good reason to do so. > Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is still supported until april 2011, and as long as > it's > supported we will be building emc2 packages for it. > > The cases where you should chose Lucid over Hardy are: > * new hardware that doesn't work on hardy > * you're doing a brand new install > * SMP support (more than one CPU and/or CPU core) > * you just want to help with testing the new release > > == Installing/testing procedures: == > > 1. starting with a LiveCD (provides means for testing only, or even install > if wanted) (the suggested way to try it out) > > Step 1: Download the iso from: > http://www.linuxcnc.org/lucid/ubuntu-10.04-linuxcnc1-i386.iso > (note: this URL might change in the future, reference > http://www.linuxcnc.org/ for the latest download link, and for a description > of known problems). > > Step 2: Check the MD5SUM (note: also mentioned at http://www.linuxcnc.org/, > the latest one is: 5283b33b7e23e79da1ee561ad476b05f) > > Step 3: burn the image > > Step 4: boot it on your PC (Note: the LiveCD contains two modes: live/test > and > install. The Live version requires 384Mb RAM but an existing swap partition > on the harddrive will be picked up, so it might be possible to boot the Live > version on systems with less memory. The install mode needs as little as > 256MB for installing). > If you're happy with how it works/looks, install it on your machine. > > Step 5: report problems (&successes) encountered > > 2. starting with an existing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx install > > Step 1: Install Ubuntu 10.04 > > Step 2: Once you have installed Ubuntu , get the install script from here: > http://www.linuxcnc.org/lucid/emc2-install.sh , choose "Save to Disk" and > click OK. > > Step 3: Now an emc2-install.sh icon will appear on your Desktop. Right-click > that icon, select Properties. Go to the Permissions tab and check the box > for Owner: Execute. Close the Properties window. > > Step 4: Now double-click the emc2-install.sh icon, and select "Run in > Terminal". A terminal will appear and you will be asked for your password. > > Step 5: When the installation asks if you are sure you want to install the > EMC2 packages, hit Enter to accept. Now just allow the install to finish. > > Step 6: When it is done, you must reboot (System> Log Out> Restart the > Computer) - once you have rebooted you can run EMC2 by selecting it on the > Applications> CNC menu. > > Step 7: If you aren't ready to set up a machine configuration, try one of > the > sim configurations; they run a "simulated machine" that require no > attached hardware. > > == Reporting problems& getting help == > > Reporting issues/problems/nags/ideas for improvements or anything else, can > be done via email (on this list), via IRC (#emc-devel on irc.freenode.net) > or via bug-reports at: > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=6744&atid=106744 > > Thanks for your patience, and for all the help to make it another great > release. > > Best regards, > Alex Joni > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >
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