Re: emc

> From: "Carlos Guillermo" <Carlos@...>
>
> Come on guys...
> I'd rather pay with cash than the equivalent amount of hours, sweat, and
> diet cokes. (I get paid mostly by the hour).

I agree completely with your desire to build only that which you cannot buy
for a reasonable price.

> By the way, what's the
> average time investment to get an EMC/Linux system going?

From a cold start it's possible to get the EMC up and running (xemc on the
screen) in a little less than two hours, if your hardware is completely
compatible with Linux. It might take me as much as 4 hours or more if I have
to track down updated driver software to make less well supported hardware
work (Not all of this time requires someone sitting in front of the machine
since once the Linux install is begun, it runs unattended for quite a while).
From this point on it's a matter of getting the software configured correctly
to run you machine. This can take an hour or two for a stepper system and
longer (!) for a servo system.

See my post entitled "EMC Installation Service Available" for more details.

Thanks,

Matt Shaver