Re: Re: Throwing cold water!

Steve

Comments mixed in.

>Message: 25
> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 09:45:35 -0400
> From: Steve Gunsel <gunsel@...>
>Subject: Re: Throwing cold water!
>
>HI,
>
>But in my experience, I have yet to have Red Hat load as a workstation
>install even after multiple attempts and with different hardware
>combinations. I know, this part is supposed to be easy. But if this isn't
>OK, the rest of the scripting is pretty worthless.

You got that real close.

In general, what kind of pc are you trying with?
Is this a linux only install?
What happens after you answer all the install questions?
What Red Hat?
What rtlinux?
What EMC?

>What I don't recall seeing, or maybe I saw it but did not recognize, is a
>list of the files that are needed to load rtlinux and emc. Obviously, you
>need the proper files to make the hardware function. This I have done
>repeatedly, but you are doomed whenever any of the other (?) files are
>either not present or located in the wrong directory.
>
>I think we need to address two issues separately: hardware, which differs
>for every hardware configuration, and the rtlinux and emc stuff. If I know
>what is needed, I can make sure it is there. If I blindly follow a script,
>I am always at a loss whenever it doesn't work as expected, which is more
>common than not, at least for me.

Well, the Linux install creates or copies thousands of files. The untar of
the rt copies hundreds of files. The rt compile creates two really
important files, bzImage, zimage, or vimage, and System.map or Symbol.map.
It also makes several modules.

EMC uses a couple hundred files to compile into a handful of critical ones.
The specific files needed depend upon the values that you place in the ini
file that the EMC reads when it starts to run.

A couple folk have reported that they had good luck with the linuxcnc.org
descriptions but as soon as I get the answers above, I can try to suggest
some things.

Ray