On Monday 20 October 2014 03:08:56 Marius Liebenberg did opine And Gene did reply: > Hi Wallace > If I can give some advice on getting things going. > I have done many installations of linuxcnc and always follow this > route. > > 1: Download the linuxcnc LIVE-CD image and burn it to a disc. (keep the > disc) This might help > http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/html/common/Getting_EMC.html#_getting_ > linuxcnc 2: Set your mother board BIOS to boot from CD > 3: Boot the machine and follow the prompts. Dont do anything fancy but > go as standard as possible. Keep the machine connected to the internet. > You will be prompted at some stage by the update manager to get the > latest of all software. Do so but dont upgrade to 12.04. > 4: Once the machine is running, follow the steps on this page. > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Installing_LinuxCNC > You will be installing on Ubuntu 10.04 so just follow those > instructions. > > As I said, I have done many machines and always do just as I explained > above. > Good luck with your installation and remember that the community is > here to help. Just ask :)
I would have added that during the boot from the cd/dvd stage, it offers to install right there. But do NOT install from that bootup prompt, wait until its fully booted from the cd/dvd media, and you have the networking configured and are "on line". Then and only then click on the install icon and follow the prompts. Why? Since you have already made networking work, all those settings will be preserved when you do the real install. If you install from the first prompt before booting, then you will be forced to learn, and use sudo to run a funkity editor on a lot on strange sounding file names, before you will succeed in making networking work. That is a headache the new user doesn't need, very off putting to start out, leaving a bitter taste in ones mouth... > On 2014-10-19 21:42, Marshland Engineering wrote: > > I'm about to start my 3 or 4 attempt to get LinuxCNC running. So far > > over the past 5 years I have spent several 100 hours trying to get > > things to work with little success. > > > > Bear in mind that it's not just LinuxCNC, it is all of Linux you have > > to learn etc, Git Gedit repository Sudo etc. And replace gedit with geany as soon as you can, gedit has upchucked all over my lunch several times. Gedit is nice, but a bit buggy. I've had to fix scrambled eggs files several times. Not so far with geany. > > I must say that with steppers (which we have had running) is quite > > simple. Now using Mesa bits and servo drives was a complete > > headache. I suppose 2 kw motors are a different beast. I just put a 1 horse treadmill motor in my 7x12. It takes a 2.5 kva supply to run it right. Fortunately I had access to a used up twin 750 watt Phase Linear amplifier, whose power tranny, rectifier bridge and filters supplied the needed grunt. A first pass with about a 1.2kva supply didn't cut it when trying to do rigid tapping with G33.1. > > I have put time aside in Nov and Dec this year to try and get it > > going again. Wish me luck. > > > > Thanking you > > Wallace Weideman > > Marshland Engineering > > 704 Marshland Road > > Styx > > Christchurch > > 03 3237449 > > www.marshland.co.nz > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. > > Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. > > Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push > > notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
