Personally, I find that true, using direct install on ubuntu rather than the EMC2 CD.
Actually installing Ubuntu 8.04 LTS from CD, get it talking on your network but DO NOT update Ubuntu at this time. Then do the EMC2 install. Afterwards updating Ubuntu generates the fewest problems for me. IHS ... Jack On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:30 PM, BRIAN GLACKIN <glackin.br...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > > > Rondal Nannie wrote: > > > Gene I went in and changed it so that it would boot the cd first. It > > started to load the cd and about 3/4 into it ,it failed to load. This > > happened several times.Thanks for the reply Ron > > > > > You must have 256 MB of memory. For some reason, a vew machines seem to > > need a little more. Also, you need somewhere around 3-4 GB of hard > > drive. If either is in too short supply, the install will grind to a > > halt, often without any error message. There are a few graphics cards > > that are not compatible, and also you need about 4 MB of memory on the > > graphics card. It will get to a certain place in the install and croak > > when it tries to configure the graphics. > > > > There is an Ubuntu hardware compatibility list that you can check to > > make sure your graphics is on the good list. > > > > Jon > > > > > > > You can also install just a regular Ubuntu Live CD without EMC - go to the > Ubuntu Site. I originally succeeded that way. Once you have Ubuntu > working, then follow the instructions on Linuxcnc.org on how to download > EMC > to a system with Ubuntu already installed. > > Others have found this path while not as easy results in fewer hardware > issues. > > Brian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
