On Saturday 20 June 2015 17:42:29 Chris Radek wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 03:44:15PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But, this does bring up a question? Am I wasting my time trying to > > install on an Athlon single core with only 384 megs of dram? > > I've installed our wheezy cd on a 256 Meg P3. I think 384M is > probably enough to run *only* linuxcnc, fairly comfortably. I doubt > it's enough to run a web browser comfortably. > > On the initial menu, be sure to pick the text mode installer.
Humm, knowing the gfx mode gives me an opportunity to manually set the networking, I did that twice. I had a 46Gb drive in it, told it to use it all, installed ok but slow. DVD reader is ancient. 100+ packages to update after the reboot. Told it to godoit. 80 packages in the drive goes read only, and an e2fsck didn't fix it, totally trashed. Came in here to rummage thru my drive midden heap, found one IDE, a 500Gb with no magic marker notes on it. Might be good. Jumper in cable select, left it there. Reinstall went at about the normal pace, and eventually it rebooted. Grub can't find a drive. none, nada. So I left the mills spindle running at about 170 revs, thinking maybe by morning, the quill might cool off. Yeah, pigs fly too. The adjustable preload nut in the bottom of the quill is showing 15F above ambient at that very leasurely speed. No clue if its pulled too tight or what, but if it doesn't cool off, I'll see how good the warranty works. In the meantime. PCW's card didn't show, and I emailed my son who said he had a better old spare, so he brings it along, pulling in here on the 7th, and I'll recycle this old HP Presario. I'll try one more install tomorrow, after I move the jumper to Master, but I'm not convinced it will do much good. That bios might not have a clue what to do with a drive of 500Gb. The day isn't over yet, Bill'd leftovers annointed us with 1.3" so far, meaning I've water in the basement again. Sigh. Pump is working fine, just too danged much rain cause the first inch took maybe 20 minutes. I am sure we drowned some frogs. I had my shop umbrella quite well unwound so the wind wouldn't uproot it, but its over in the back neighbors yard anyway. :( I can get it tomorrow in any event. Went out to round up a sandwich for us, and half the town was without power, so all the fast food places took the night off. Our fridge was well stocked in any event. I'm all in but my shoelaces, and they're dragging. I feel an early nap coming on... 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
