Re: [Emc-users] Live boot from a USB stick, are there issues with running EMC?

I have no idea if this would be feasible, but would it be possible to load the contents of the flash drive to a ram drive before booting, then boot from that? It would take a while copying the flash to ram, but after that it should have more bandwidth than the fastest SATA drives even on a RAID 0.

Re: [Emc-users] Live boot from a USB stick, are there issues with running EMC?

It depends on the motherboard hardware. Some motherboards work just fine with usb memory sticks plugged in. sam Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 19 January 2009, Renewables Not Reactors wrote: > >> Can EMC be used from a USB boot stick? >> >> > I'd say no based on having a 64 meg key plu

Re: [Emc-users] Live boot from a USB stick, are there issues with running EMC?

On Monday 19 January 2009, Renewables Not Reactors wrote: >Can EMC be used from a USB boot stick? > I'd say no based on having a 64 meg key plugged in creates astronomical lags every 5 seconds here. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and

Re: [Emc-users] Live boot from a USB stick, are there issues with running EMC?

Read this: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Install_To_CompactFlash regards Michael On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:07:55 +0100, Renewables Not Reactors wrote: > Can EMC be used from a USB boot stick? > > -- > This

Re: [Emc-users] Live boot from a USB stick, are there issues with running EMC?

That shouldn't be a problem. Google for ubuntu usb boot. You'll find lots of pages describing the process. USB is fairly slow. I boot off a CompactFlash card instead. I did a howto for CF installation Les > Can EMC be used

[Emc-users] Live boot from a USB stick, are there issues with running EMC?

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