Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] linux & newer PC,s for BDI soft ware

Dennis,

Lots of us use EMC for our machines, and most use the BDI for install. It's
not perfect, and has some problems, but there are some good guys working
them out. You don't need your own version of linux as RedHat 6.0 comes on
the BDI disk. If your computer will boot to the CD, simply stick the BDI
disk in and turn on the computer. Once it boots, just follow the menus and
it will install over any windows that you may have on there. If your
computer is an older one and won't boot to the CD (you need to go into the
computers setup to tell it what your first boot device is) you can boot the
EMC install from a floppy. There are directions on the BDI CD for doing
that. Not sure what the install size is, but you can probably get by with
less than a gig. Min computer for steppers is probably on the order of 200
Meg Pentium with 64 meg of ram. It will work on less, but probably not as
well as you would like. Faster is always better.

A better list for questions on EMC is the EMC Users list. Go here for info
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "dcumin2000" <dcumin2000@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:21 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] linux & newer PC,s for BDI soft ware


> I,m putting a engraver together & want to try Linux & the BDI
> program. My questions are: Is anyone used this? How do you like the
> software? What flavor of linux are used with machine control(is one
> brand better for machine control than others)?
> I purchased Red Hat, min install is 500 mb, max is over 2.5 gig.
> Seems large!
> Can anyone tell me what low level formating soft ware is used to
> erase windows(95 & up) from old hard drives so older dos command.com
> can be loaded allowing linux to be installed only as main operating
> system? I have some older PC's I can dedicate to the engraver, but
> need to get around the installed windows. Reformating can only be
> done with the same or later version of windows. This leaves win 95
> command com on the PC,cant get linux to recognise this as dos?
> Thanks in advance
> Dennis Cumin
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