James, Quite a number of questions in there. I will just address the one about running Ubuntu with WinXP. This can be achieved a couple of ways. One way is to dual boot. If there is a partition available on the HD (10GB should be sufficient) you can install Ubuntu alongside XP. If you cannot repartition or get such a partition, you can fairly inexpensively add a hard drive or SSD and have Ubuntu boot from the second drive.
In either event you will want to install stock Ubuntu, which will then prompt you through the dual boot installation. You can then install Linuxcnc from the install script (see wiki). A third option is to create a bootable Ubuntu thumb drive and install Linuxcnc to it. Lastly, if you cannot upgrade the memory as 512MB is a bit light, you could use Xubuntu instead as it has a smaller footprint. Linuxcnc will run on Xubuntu as well. Regards, Eric hi everyone, i made a linear delta robot for a long time ,because there are mach more problem. A few days ago,i got the kinematics http://sourceforge.net/p/emc/mailman/message/31161592/ i think this kinematics maybe fit for my robot. Of course, I will go to prove it. i bought Stepper motor and driver,and other materials ,i want to test the software,but i did not install linuxcnc,because the first computer was not good for linuxcnc,so i bought another one,and test it with the 'Latency-Test'.this one looks okay,Max Jitter(ns) :26962(for servo thresd),31830(for base thread), this computer with windows XP 32bit, CPU:intel Celeron 2.80GHz RAM:512MB Hard disk:80GB Graphics:Nvidia GeForce FX5200(128MB) I don't want to lose the XP,is there anyone tried a computer equipped with two systems ? did you control computer only with linux? i really need a install tutorials,who can give me some tutorials or some informations? i read the 'installing linuxcnc' in the wiki,but i have some question: 1, i don't know use witch one about the two method , 'Installing Precompiled LinuxCNC for Ubuntu' 'Installing to Ubuntu 10.04 or 8.04 from source' 2,if i want to control my robot,How do I install the linux and linuxcnc onto my computer? 3,i know control machine need the realtime kernel,if i Installing Ubuntu and LinuxCNC from the LinuxCNC Live-CD,is this ubuntu have a realtime kernel?? can i modify and compile this LinuxCNC kinematics to fit for my robot ?i think install linuxcnc from source is very complex. 4,to control my robot the kinematics is important,but there aslo some other files need to modify and compile, who can tell me what files need to change? I really don't know a lot,i hope someone can help me,thank you for the first. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
