RE: Install notes.

["Tim Goldstein" <tgoldste-at-mlh-services.com>]

Charly,

if you have downloaded the RT install script I have (Find it at
http://206.19.206.56/installemc.htm there is a link to the script just above
the header "Standard Version Installation") You have the Release9J patch as
it is in the zip file as rt9j.tgz

For now you are best using the version that is targeted to the RedHat 5.2
release as there is the most documentation and support available.

You do not need a Servo to GO board. The same installation will allow you to
run stepper motors from the parallel port by using a different run and ini
file.

Hope that is of some help to you.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Charles Brauer
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 11:17 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Install notes.
>
>
> Well I still am confused about installing.  First I HAVE NEVER
> found the so called release9J.tgz patch( or the beta11) on the
> EMC webspace.
>
> On rtlinux & related ftps there are rtl: v1.2, v1.3, v2.0, v3.0 plus 2
> prepatched ones containing the necessary kernel. The newest one has the
> kernel_patch "cleverly hidden" in rtl/main/i386.
>
>
> I have had success building kernels and installing and running examples.
> One problem I had with v2.0 was the old v1.3 examples wouldn't
> run... until
> I edited a line in rtl/include/rtl_conf.h. This caused me a lot
> of problems
> trying to install emc.  EMC is written for the old rtlinux and won't
> install with rlt2.0(unless the rtl_conf.h is modified). I asked Fred about
> this in round about way but got no reply( I asked him why I was getting
> RLTask emcmot syntax error at line 277 or so of emcmot.c ... that was
> because I was using rtlv2.0 which I thought must be the so called beta11
> version)
>
> I know this is all old news to all the programming garus out
> there, but for
> some of the lesser folk it makes life difficult.
>
> My feelings about the CAD/CAM thing is yes someone(the gov via grants)
> should see that a free CAD/CAM package is out there.  I have worked with
> Surfcam and I know there is no way I could began to build gcode over
> complex surfaces with out such a package.  I tried using CGAL to write a
> program that would extract the closed polygons from a dxf file, break them
> into triangular meshes and then use something like RAPID to follow the 3D
> edges.  It was too much for me I tell you.
>
> Now I just got the new install guide from the link in the emc drop box at
> http://www.linuxcnc.org  and see I have some changes I can make as
> I have 96M and no $888 Servo-to-go board.
>
> charly
>