If the old Lenovo PC has ahard drive, or better yet an SSD inside,then it will run much better then the Pi4 that is runniong off an SD card. Those cards a re very slow.
If you want to upgrade the hardware replace th mechanical hard drive in the PC with a SATA SSD. If it already has an SSD, then you are good already > On Jul 13, 2024, at 11:24 AM, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: > > > >> From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] >> >> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 at 19:00, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Andy, >>> On my workbench for playing around I'm running 2.8.4 on a Pi4 with an LCD >> touch screen and the MESA 7i92H. How easy to update that? >> >> The best thing to do with a Pi is probably to make a new SD card from >> the LinuxCNC image, then copy your existing config across (probably >> easiest to put the linuxcnc folder on a USB stick then swap SD cards) >> Then you can always go back to the old, working, SD card if there is a >> problem. >> > > Thanks. That's what I figured. > What about the 2.8.1 PC? Better to replace it? I picked it up surplus for > about $75 a number of years ago. I have a second one as a spare. > John > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
