Re: EMC & RH 6.0 working

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

Bill

Thanks for the report.  I'll get it into the Handbook soon.

Ray


At 09:03 PM 6/30/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Well in case anyone is interested I got EMC working with
>RH 6.0 and the prepatched kernal 2.0. It was really quite
>easy once I got by the first 3 tries. I screwed up the first
>3 times, it wasn't linux's fault. Total time to install the
>patch and EMC on the last try was about 30 min. RH 6.0 went ok 
>on the first try. Here are a couple of tips that might help. 
>
>1) Don't use a newer rt patch than 2.0 since the install script
>   for EMC refrences certain directories that will be named something
>   else.
>
>2) Do follow the directions located here - http://pc2075.psi.ch/~mirko/
>   for installing the prepatched kernal.
>
>3) When running xconfig, or whatever you use to configure your kernal,
>   make sure that 
>	a) realtime is enabled
>	b) APM is disabled
>	c) DOS FAT is enabled if you want to load your part programs 
>	   from a DOS disk.
>
>4) Install RH 6.0 using the workstation install, no need to load any
>   other files. (I loaded KDE Window manager using RPM because I wanted 
>   it not because I needed it)
>
>
>Good Luck
>
>Bill
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