On Sunday 30 October 2016 14:32:01 Matsche wrote: > Am 30.10.2016 schrieb "Gene Heskett" <ghesk...@shentel.net>: > >Since this is almost off-topic on the emc-users list, is there not a > >machinekit list that we should continue this on? > > Gene, > > this is a linuxcnc topic. > Only the kernel is from machinekit. > > >Also, since waking up I have done: > >------------------------ > >sudo apt update > >sudo apt list --upgradable > > > ># and got a list of 21 pkgs starting with bind to be upgraded, so > > > >sudo apt upgrade > > > ># which installed a newer kernel, so I rebooted. > > > ># and because I'll probably use sshfs to do the file sharing: > >sudo apt install sshfs. > ># which took very little additional storage. > >--------------------- > > > >I do not know what the preferred x gui is or even if its installed, > > so I haven't tried a startx from my ssh -Y login. IMO that should > > wait till I actually have a keyboard, mouse and monitor directly on > > it. > > I'm not @ home, please wait.
Breath is baited... > > >So please reply with the preferred mailing list I should subscribe > > to, and the next step of the prep. > > This list is ok. Ok, sent to the emc-users list. > >I did make a tentative stab at installing my fav editor, geany, but > > that would have pulled in about 260 megs of dependencies, so I > > backed out. I have edited /etc/hosts so it knows about and can ping > > the rest of the local network, and that all seems to work. And on > > this machine I have created a ~/gene/linuxcnc/pi_nc_files directory > > to be used as the sshfs target in place of the NFS share as what I > > have here, using sshfs is totally bulletproof so far in about a > > years use of using it in place of the super pickety, works only if > > you bow to mecca while writing a file over it, NFS. > > > >Is it time to pull that u-sd, dd it back to this machine, then dd it > > to the other two u-sd's yet? > > > >And I just noted that /lib/firmware has not an hm_2 subdir. So we > > really are working on bare metal it seems. > > > >Do I need, ahh yes I will, your hm_2_raspi in addition to the > > firmware for the 7i90HD installed there? > > > >Once the jumper kits get here I can program the 7i90HD right on the > > r-pi? Or is an x86 required to run mesaflash3 yet? And how do we > > get it programmed for an SPI port on the same pins that are being > > used as EPP to do the programming operation. I should have put a ? mark above, Andy drew my attention to that annomally. <- and my speil cheeker can't spell it either. :) > > > >Yeah, I know, I likely have several carts in front of the horse here, > > so I'm waiting. > > > >Thank you, W. Martinjak. > > > >Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Stay tuned! I am but that station seems be be off the air? Does it need a good broadcast engineer with a 1st phone in his pocket? ;-) > > Matsche > > >-- > >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > >-Ed Howdershelt (Author) > >Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern Developers Did the resurgence of CLI tooling catch you by surprise? Reconnect with the command line and become more productive. Learn the new .NET and ASP.NET CLI. Get your free copy! http://sdm.link/telerik _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
