Jon Elson wrote:
>I got homing working on all 3 axes of the Bridgeport, but there seems to
>be something odd about that. The way I have the home switches wired,
>the ppmc pin feeding directly to axis.0.home-sw-in reads TRUE when the
>switch is NOT tripped, going FALSE when the switch is pressed.
Alex Joni wrote:
>there are loads and loads of mirrors, it sometimes helps to change to
>another one by hand.
>the prefixes are all country related.. you simply need to change them
>in the /etc/apt/sources.list
>
>
Thanks, I didn't know where it recorded these!
Jon
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John Prentice wrote:
>Jon
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>>The worst part of the whole experience was downloading the updates
>>necessary for compiling EMC2 and a few other things I need on the system
>>from
>>us.archive.ubuntu.com, which is appallingly slow! I was averaging about
>>3 K bytes a second! But, I finally
> I found this to be the case this past weekend as well. Dribbled in
> so
> slow I could see the difference on my dialup.
there are loads and loads of mirrors, it sometimes helps to change to
another one by hand.
the prefixes are all country related.. you simply need to change them
in the /et
Hi Jon
Glad to hear that things are coming together with your upgrade. Just
one quick comment on the snipped below.
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 00:21 -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
> The worst part of the whole experience was downloading the updates
> necessary for compiling EMC2 and a few other things I
Jon
> The worst part of the whole experience was downloading the updates
> necessary for compiling EMC2 and a few other things I need on the system
> from
> us.archive.ubuntu.com, which is appallingly slow! I was averaging about
> 3 K bytes a second! But, I finally got it done.
>
Interesting, ov
I installed ubuntu-emc2 on a 733 MHz Dell machine with very little trouble.
a 2.4 Gb disk isn't big enough, no surprise. Also, the install CD won't run
with 128 MB of memory, but once the install is done, that is plenty. I
can't even see any slowdown when compiling EMC2.
I got homing working on
