Re: [Emc-users] Emc on old computer

[Stephen W. P. <sp...@so...>]

Doug Pollard wrote:

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>Someone either on Ubuntu mail group or EMC can't remember at the moment 
>gave me this link to puppy Linux install with Emc looks pretty complex 
>but may be doable for me. Anyway even If I don't use this box the one I 
>do use won't likely be that much faster and newer.  I don't want to use 
>the box for anything but emc  as I have a fast box in the house that is  
>set up for video editing so it's pretty hot stuff or was 3 years ago.  I 
>would like to use ubuntu, maybe pull out some of the unneeded programs 
>for a little more space.  See about that!!
>                                                                      Doug
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>http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Emc_Puppy
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Puppy has a couple of issues having to do with package management and 
lack of installed compilers.  Ubuntu also has no compiler installed by 
default, but they're easy to install with the package manager.  It's 
less necessary to compile anyway, since you can also install EMC and 
other updates with the package manager.

To get an Ubuntu-based system, you can try the somewhat more difficult 
route of using the text mode installer on ubuntu server or the 
relatively lightweight xubuntu version, then installing the EMC packages 
by hand.  The install process for "normal" ubuntu (or the EMC2 version, 
which is based on standard Ubuntu) needs a lot of memory if you boot to 
the desktop then install.  I don't know if installing from the "Install 
Ubuntu" option on the CD boot menu uses the text installer - you could 
check and get back to us :)  I believe that all the flavors of Ubuntu 
use the same xorg X server, so I don't know how much smaller the 
memory/CPU requirements will be for the installed system.  It should use 
a bit less disk space, and the text installer will certainly let the 
install complete on some systems where the graphical installer would choke.

- Steve