My favorite method of installing LinuxCNC is to download the ISO, but instead of burning a CD, I use unetbootin to create a bootable USB flash drive. I make sure the BIOS knows to boot from the USB device if it's bootable before booting from the hard drive, and I boot the USB just like booting from CD and I install from there.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net The flash memory installation seems faster to me, and lately I've been installing to small low power Atom processor based motherboards with no CD ROM drive... but everything has a USB port! I carry an 8GB USB flash drive the size of my thumbnail in my pocket all the time. I never know when I might need to install LinuxCNC. :-) It's also handy to do a latency test on a PC to see if it would be appropriate for LinuxCNC, and it's handy to have a memory test utility sometimes too. If you're using flash memory instead of a hard drive, you might want to max out the RAM so Ubuntu won't be tempted to swap out some RAM to the swap partition and wear out your flash memory. That may only be an issue if (like me) you're tempted to run Firefox, watch YouTube videos, view large PDF datasheets or tooling catalogs, etc. On 06/11/2013 02:10 PM, Eric Keller wrote: > I am putting together my system for my mill, and the hard drive I > bought for it got used in my son's comp. So I bought a CF to SATA > converter. I was curious if I am going to have any success stetting > up linuxcnc on an 8gb CF, or if I am going to have to go to a larger > drive. > > Is my best approach to d/l the current live cd and install from there, > or is that going to require too much storage? > > Unfortunately, the info about this seems to be in threads with other titles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
