Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] DOS/EMC aka DeskNCrt now freely available

Thanks Tim,

I also have 180 Mhz Pentium that would be available NOW. SCSI drives,
funny Viper video controller card. I'll be "emptying" the drives,
unless it's just better to use an IDE?

Alan KM6VV

Tim Goldstein wrote:

>
> My experience has been that if the machine is not fast enough you will have
> a difficult time getting a very high rapid rate. I think a 366 celeron would
> work fine, but I have no experience with it. You can use a larger drive, but
> then you seem to need to partition it manually. When I installed onto a
> large drive using the workstation install and it's automagic partitioning it
> seemed to work fine until the first time that the chkdisk (not sure if this
> is the proper Linux name) routine ran on boot up. The machine would just
> hang on that and never finish even if left to sit for hours. I did find a
> way to partition the disk to manually and still use the workstation install
> and then everything worked just fine with the large HD.
>
> Tim
> [Denver, CO]
> http://www.ktmarketing.com/CNC.html
>
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > Does RedHat 5.2 for EMC really require a 300Mhz PII? How about a '366
> > Celeron? I'm not sure you can FIND a drive < 4 Gb now! Guess I need a
> > new machine for "work", and use this 1+ year old Toshiba for EMC!
> >
> > Alan KM6VV
> >
> >
> > Tim Goldstein wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, my background is completely in DOS/Windows/NT. If your
> > only goal is to
> > > get EMC up and running and you are willing to invest just a
> > little time to
> > > verify that you have compatible hardware, you can know virtually nothing
> > > about Linux and get EMC running if you are willing to stick
> > with the version
> > > written for RedHat 5.2. I have written a scripted installation
> > for the real
> > > time kernel extensions which is the part that was tripping up
> > most everyone.
> > > The trick with it is:
> > > 1 - Use only known compatible hardware
> > > 2 - Use a dedicated machine and don't try multi boot and
> > special partition
> > > strategies
> > > 3 - Use an IDE hard drive under 4 or so gig (1 gig is plenty)
> > > 4 - Setup RedHat 5.2 using the workstation install with no deviation
> > > 5 - Configure X-windows for 800 X 600 or better
> > > 6 - Follow the rest of the instructions explicitly
> > >
> > > If you are using a Pentium/PII/PIII or AMD K6/7 in the 300 or
> > better range
> > > the install can be done in about 1 - 1-1/2 hours with most of the time
> > > dedicated to letting the machine sit and compile.
> > >
> > > After that you just treat the box as a CNC controller and don't
> > try to use
> > > it as a PC unless you are wanting to learn more about Linux.
> > >
> > > Tim
> > > [Denver, CO]