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
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