Re: Re: BDI hardware requirements

John

Sounds like you've made a good start with the dual boot. The 700 meg is
small but if you remove the Red Hat you can install the BDI 2.16 workstation
there and still have some space left over for putting your favorite Red Hat
packages back in.

I'd install the BDI rather than trying to make the existing Linux install do
the work. It uses a real-time patched kernel that you can most easily get
from the BDI disk. If you do it this way, you will have a working EMC rather
than trying to piece together a system.

If you decide to install the BDI, use the manual partition option. This will
save the dos partition that you have win95 in. This makes a reasonably good
multi os system. I've got a couple of them around here somewhere. About the
only thing I do now on MS is run easycad.

If you decide to try to pull BDI packages into the existing Linux, you will
need the BDI kernel, all of the EMC packages, the RCSLIB package, and the tcl
and tk packages. Probably several others as well.

Ray

>    From: Jon Elson <elson@...>
> Subject: Re: BDI hardware requirements
>
> jmkasunich wrote:
> >   What about the "regular"
> > EMC?  I just acquired a Pentium 100MHz machine, 72M ram, 1.6G HD.
> > I also picked up a RedHat 6 CD (came with a book).  I now have
> > a dual boot system, 700M Linux partition and 120M swap, with WIN95
> > in the other partition.  (Yeah! Just getting it running gets me
> > psyched - I've been wanting to get into Linux for a couple of
> > years, and finally made some time to do it.)  This is certainly
> > enough computer to let me start getting familiar with Linux.
> > Is it enough to run EMC?  Can I install EMC onto my existing
> > Red Hat 6 system using the BDI disk, or do I need to re-install?
>
> I run a servo system with a 100 MHz Pentium, 32 MB ram, 1 GB hard
> drive.  You will have slow or ragged stepper operation with such a slow
> machine, but it will definitely work.
>
> Jon