RE: HELP --- Installation frustration...

Clint,

I am the one that wrote the setupRT.zip script. The reason I zipped it in a
normal Windows format is that at the time I put it together for my use and
to help others on the list the idea was you would be using Linux only for
your machine controller and not as a replacement for your desktop. So I
figured you would not have a modem or a soundcard in the Linux machine and
you would have a functioning Windows machine available.

Concerning running the script from the hard drive, there are a couple of
files in the script that are copied and the script file is looking fro them
to be on the floppy. Yes, you could rewrite it to work from the hard drive
if you wanted to, but from the floppy is a more generic approach in my mind.

You can just do it the manual way and put all of the RT compile commands in
yourself and that does not require the setupRT.zip file at all.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: clint@... [mailto:clint@...]On Behalf Of Clint
> Bach
> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 7:16 PM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] HELP --- Installation frustration...
>
>
> From: Clint Bach <clintbach@...>
>
> Well........
>
> It shouldn't be quite as bad as hazing. An example is I have
> "setupRT.zip" downloaded to my machine for scripting the installation of
> rtlinux. One of the first things to do is "from a win9x or winNT
> machine unzip such and such file to a floppy"... (not an exact quote)
> Geez give me a break! I downloaded it to a linux machine... I somehow
> have to get the file into a windows machine, unzip the file to a floppy
> to run on a linux machine. I admit that I don't know much about linux
> and probably even less about windoze but I do believe it would be easier
> for me to be able to install all of the programs and stuff from at least
> one platform with only one OS involved. Please excuse my ignorance but
> can I just unzip the setupRT.zip file and run it from linux? I don't
> know how to do that in linux yet... I'm trying very hard to get this
> together. I have invested a lot of time so far. For me to just get
> that installation file onto a floppy I have to swap out the hard drive
> on my computer so I can run windows, and probably email myself the file
> before I change out the hard drives because all my email with the url's
> are on the linux hard drive. (Unzipping a file from a windoze box was
> not in my wildest dreams when I downloaded the files originally...) Then
> I have to swap the hard drives again and install RTlinux. There are
> other alternatives of course. A dual boot system... (I tried it but it
> didn't work for me) I could also use someone else's Windoze machine to
> download the proper files and make the disk. I could also network a
> windows machine with my linux machine. (Yuck! More headaches!)
>
> So, now that I vented some of my frustration... Can I convert that zip
> file to a usable floppy disk with Linux? If it can be done how do it?
> Don't these newbie linux questions just drive you crazy? Does it
> -really- take windows to install linux?
>
> Thanks for the great job everyone has been doing on these projects!!!
>
> Clint Bach
>
>
> Steve Carlisle wrote:
> >
> > From: "Steve Carlisle" <quatsein@...>
> >
> > This Linux/EMC thing is similar to a hazing ritual. Everyone
> > has to invest the time to play the game. If people do not have
> > the time to invest, they should consider other programs, more
> > money, less time.
> >
> > Steve Carlisle
> >
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