On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Viesturs Lācis <viesturs.la...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2012/3/9 charles green <xxzzb...@yahoo.com>: > > the fanuc machines are at work. no desire to port them anywhere, just > replicate the solid controller functionality for my own fun. > > Since that would provide a benefit to Your employer, it seems obvious > to me that they should pay for that. > > I do not have the same starting point since I have no previous expereince with milling and or CNC, but it appears obvious to me after lurking in this mailing list for 5 years + now, that LinuxCNC is a solid controller not only for the home user but for many production shops as well. > > > > what is f6 noapic? > > > > During boot-up, press F6, some menu opens and "noapic" option is > selected (at least that is how I understand it, I myself have never > done that). > > Viesturs > As Viesturs mentioned, using the Livecd, at the opening splash screen, there is a series of F# options with F6 allowing you to add or change the startup command line. Hit F6 and scroll to the end of the line and add -noapic. It helps with older systems - why? I haven't the foggiest but it seems to smooth my installation efforts on these older compaqs. Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
