Re: Handbook info - EMC distributions

[Ray Henry <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Good news, Bill.

I installed it here tonight and it went okay.  Crashed a couple of times 
because I was overclocking the old K62-400.  Set it back and everything seems 
to be working okay.

Now for the Sourceforge setup.  You will need to contact Will at NIST and ask 
him to put you on as a developer.  Once he does that you are about ready to 
go to work on the software and/or the documents.

The TNG installs CVS the concurrent versioning system that sourceforge uses.  
It also installs SSH the secure shell software.  You will need to create a 
key that can be used by Sourceforge to confirm your identity and machine.  To 
do this type in the following command

ssh-keygen

and after a few seconds it will ask where you want to keep the key.  It 
suggests a location and you can accept that by pressing <enter>.  Then it 
asks for a passphrase.  I'd enter something.  It will ask for the passphrase 
again.  When it accepts your passphrase it will create the key and store it 
in an invisible directory .ssh in your home directory.  Don't do this as root 
because you will have to log into the internet with this user.

Once you've got the key and are able to log into sourceforge you will be 
asked to take a developer survey.  Then you can add the EMC project to your 
home page.  

On Wednesday 29 May 2002 23:35, you wrote:
> I just installed it tonight on my Dell Latitude Laptop, No problems
> if your hardware is compatable, lots of problems if it is not. My install
> went like a dream, even dual boots windows. Before you build your
> machine, go to the hardware compatability list on RedHat's website
> and make sure everything you have is supported for RedHat 7.2
> If it is, you should have no problems. Have not hooked it to my
> machine yet, but EMC seems to work just fine.
>
> Bill
>
> > I'd really like more info on how BDI TNG is put together.  I am thinking
> > that I will just build a system the old fashioned way, i.e. from the
>
> peices.
>
> > Someone on the cadcamdro list said that experienced linux users can have
> > problems with bdi installs.  I think that I may fit that category.
> >
> > Eric