Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Throwing cold water!

Ron Ginger wrote:

> Sorry, but I dont think it can be made quite so simple. Any form of
> 'disk image' copy will have the requirement of very nearly identical
> hardware, and particularly in the area of graphics and X config, that
> is
> just not going to work.

Quite true!

> The RT patches are the big problem. They are VERY kernel source
> dependent. What we need is for someone to properly apply the patches,
> then make a new tarball of that source tree, and put that on CD or on
> the net. Then to build the kernel one simply loads that tarball into
> the
> right place and runs a kernel build- a simple 4 or 5 step process.
> Dave had a few of these CDs at NAMES, and I built a rt kernal from it
> in
> just a few miutes.

Yes, this is how I finally got going. Fred Proctor did this for me.

> The EMC software ought to be packaged into an rpm. Then it would be no
>
> more difficult to install than anyone of thousands of Linux packages.
>
> Its not to bad just as a tar ball, but it would be better as an rpm.

Really, the way it is now is not too bad. Also, EMC has things in it
that
may require recompilation. RPM's are executable images.

Jon