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2007-11-29 Thread Michael Galt
Hi, I'm having a hard to installing the new EMC live cd... i am installing on a clean HDD with no other OS on it. 1st I've booted up from the cd and then installed it. once it reboots the load screen just hangs. i have downloaded the iso a few times and from both servers just to make sure i

Re: [Emc-users] G Code Generators

2007-11-29 Thread John Thornton
tomp, Thanks for the updated code. I'll add it to my latest verstion. I'm also adding direct file save and a config for your nc files folder... This is neat stuff. John John, please check wiki page for a note on the face.py thanks tomp

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2007-11-29 Thread noel.rodes
Now that's a good idea. I (not being a programmer) would really like to see a 'skinny' Ubuntu EMC2 distribution. Skinny being not much more than what is needed for EMC2 work. No office stuff, no media stuff, only the really necessary apps and libraries and such. Small enough to install on a

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2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Ayre
The idea of respins is that you can create multiple different versions easily. So you could have a minimal version and a minimal with network version for example. Plus as long as you have network support in the respin, it is always possible to use the repositories to install more software - just

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2007-11-29 Thread Ray Henry
I find this fascinating. Long years ago after some preliminary work by Will at NIST, I authored a knoppix-emc CD and worked with Paul while developing the Morphix (take the red pill) version that became the debian BDI. A couple of things come to mind. One of the concerns for me, being at the

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2007-11-29 Thread Ian Wright
Mick, Have you tried running the EMC2 cd as a Live cd - that is, don't install it, just put the CD in the drive - it should start up and give you the Ubuntu screen from which you should be able to run EMC2 from the file menu. It will run much slower than normal but if it runs from here, it

Re: [Emc-users] diesel motor control

2007-11-29 Thread Phillip smith
i think what your looking for is called squirt http://www.megasquirt.info/ Jon Elson wrote: Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, This doesn't have anything to do with machine tools. I am starting another project. I have retired my 1984 Mercury Lynx diesel. The body rusted out and the

Re: [Emc-users] diesel motor control

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Elson
Stuart Stevenson wrote: Gentlemen, This doesn't have anything to do with machine tools. I am starting another project. I have retired my 1984 Mercury Lynx diesel. The body rusted out and the car is not drivable. I bought a 1991 Mazda 323. Alas, this is a gas motor car. I like diesel. I

[Emc-users] ubuntu + emc2 live cd install problems

2007-11-29 Thread seth wiley
h i'm trying to install ubuntu 6.06 w/ emc2 from the live cd onto a 5 year old dell pc (not the hottest computer in the world, but it works fine). problem is: computer locks up on install step 5 of 6 and won't go any further. i can boot from the cd just fine. ubuntu comes up fine. emc2

Re: [Emc-users] diesel motor control

2007-11-29 Thread Dave Engvall
Hi all, In 1975 I installed a mil surplus diesel in a 3/4 T pickup. Ended up putting about 5000 hrs on that rig. Never did anything heavier than 27,000 GVW ... (with 55 hp at the flywheel) ... big grunt. Injection pumps, especially the inline ones are very reliable. If I were to fool with

Re: [Emc-users] diesel motor control

2007-11-29 Thread Moses McKnight
You got my attention with this! I'm a diesel likin' man myself - I have a Mercedes diesel car and an older Ford diesel pickup and a couple of diesel tractors. I've often thought of doing something like you're talking about. I'm currently using and programming PIC microcontrollers at work, and

Re: [Emc-users] diesel motor control

2007-11-29 Thread Javid Butler
Stuart- You are probably better off doing it in a microcontroller than EMC. A friend and I converted a car to run on Ethanol back in the early 90's (yes, way ahead of our time) and fooling around with the injector timing was the tricky part. That was a throttle body fuel injection system with

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2007-11-29 Thread Ray Henry
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 22:41 +, paul_c wrote: Minor correction - The Morphix base produced the BDI-live and laid the foundations for later work Oh Yes. I think I was foreshortening a step or three there. How long does it take to download compilers, libraries, and assorted tools at 3K

[Emc-users] diesel motor control

2007-11-29 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Gentlemen, This doesn't have anything to do with machine tools. I am starting another project. I have retired my 1984 Mercury Lynx diesel. The body rusted out and the car is not drivable. I bought a 1991 Mazda 323. Alas, this is a gas motor car. I like diesel. I want to put the Mazda diesel

Re: [Emc-users] diesel motor control

2007-11-29 Thread John Kasunich
Ray Henry wrote: The HAL with a good kernel and processor match and some optimiztion should be able to handle the job. Most of the mind work would be to see how much resolution you can get at the max rotation speed of the motor. Rayh Capable, yes. The best choice? I doubt it. The

Re: [Emc-users] ubuntu + emc2 live cd install problems

2007-11-29 Thread Jon Elson
seth wiley wrote: h i'm trying to install ubuntu 6.06 w/ emc2 from the live cd onto a 5 year old dell pc (not the hottest computer in the world, but it works fine). problem is: computer locks up on install step 5 of 6 and won't go any further. i can boot from the cd just fine.