Re: [Emc-developers] good book for programmers

[Jon E. <el...@pi...>]

Jonathan Stark wrote:

>Hi Jon,
>
>Quoting Jon Elson (el...@pi...):
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>>The obvious solution is to have another CPU for development, or at least
>>a disk drive.
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>Thanks for the advice.  In truth, I have been trying to get a
>second CPU up and running with EMC, but attempting to reproduce what I did 
>on the first (working) machine has not resulted in a working development
>box, and I find myself wondering, based on your response, if I'm 
>alone in not being able to get a development environment set up
>in a reliable way.
>  
>
Why BUILD another EMC?  Why not put both drives in the same CPU, and
clone it?  There is a pretty quick utility to copy an entire drive, although
I usually just use tar (there's a wierd combo of options that copies 
files from
partition to partition without making an archive).  It takes maybe 30 
minutes
to do the whole procedure, with the partition manager, format, copy, lilo
and you're done.

Of course, if your hardware environment is really different, that may not be
the best route.

Jon