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Hello EMC users,
I intend installing EMC onto my computer and I wanted to clarify a few things before I get started. I have a computer which is a pentium 100 with two hard drives (not sure what sizes) and 40 Mb of ram, with three partitions. I run Windows 95 in one partition, in another I have Red Hat Linux 5.2 (2.2.14) installed and soon Real Time Linux 2.2 will be installed as well, in the third partition I have had someone starting to install Red Hat Linux 6.2 but we had some problems with that which I will worry about at a later stage, at this point getting EMC up and running (which I have never installed before)with Red Hat 5.2 is the most important task. I intend using EMC on both a lathe and a 4 axis milling machine (by making the servo motor mounts interchangable with both machines) and I expect to be using a Servo to Go card. Now for the questions..... 1 EMC 0.9-25.i386-rt12.2.tgz is the latest and prefered version of EMC and what I should be installing, correct? 2 I've heard a bit about TCL/TK but I'm not sure exacty what it is and whether it's part of the EMC main files, any info would help. 3 bkplot1.tgz, tkbackplot.tcl & allnew3dbackplot are presumably add on programs? Are they independent of each other? Should I install all of them? 4 TKEMC-pc_2.gz TK EMC front end apparently, I have no idea what a front end is, what do I do with this file, should I be using 4AXTKEMC instead or as well to get 4 axies working? 5 EMC-0.9-25.src.tgz This file is source code and not required to get EMC running, correct? And something I need not be downloading as I have no programming knowledge at all, yes? 6 emccannon.cc I had a browse over this file but it didn't make a great deal of sense to me, is it important? 7 singleservo.tgz Do I need to download and install this file? 8 Any other words of advice from experienced EMCers, any Linux info sites you can recomend, I have no Linux experience what so ever? Thanks very much David Preston |