RE: Handbook info - EMC distributions

["Marshall Pharoah" <pharoahm-at-northnet.org>]

Would you reccomend RTLinux or RTAI?

I'd like to pick one and stick with it for this and a couple of other
real time projects I have in mind.

I have a 400Mhz K6-2 I'm hoping to resurrect for this project.  I was
using it as my desktop PC until this winter when it died.  I suspect the
only problem is that the CPU fan died.  I hope to get it checked out and
running early next week. 256MB RAM/ 10Gb hard drive.

Marshall

> -----Original Message-----
> From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov] On Behalf Of Ray Henry
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 11:36 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Handbook info - EMC distributions
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> Marshall
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> I think that you've gpt two good choices there.  The mandrake
> install and the
> stepperworld board operation.  Keep notes and start writing
> when you get
> these going.  Get back to me and I hopefully I'll have a
> style sheet ready.
>
> Thanks for your willingness
>
> Ray
>
> On Wednesday 29 May 2002 21:08, Marshall wrote:
> > I hope to start converting my Sherline (Real Soon Now).  I
> would like
> > to use Mandrake 8.1 or 8.2 if I get it in time. From what I
> read, RTAI
> > is the best choice?
> >
> > I'm still learning about CNC, but I have a 22 year old AAS in
> > Electronics, spent most of the last fifteen years writing real time
> > software for telecommunications, and wrote a little bit of user
> > documentation as well.  My skills lie primarily in RTOS (not Linux,
> > but probably close enough) and C++.  A lot of assembler, but all
> > 8-bit, so probably not of much use.
> >
> > What kind of info would you like?  A step by step guide?
> >
> > I'm back in college right now, working on my BA-CS, so I will be
> > working on this in spare time (which I expect I will have
> more of this
> > summer than in the fall).  My first step will be to get up
> and running
> > with a driver board from StepperWorld and their Windows based
> > software.  Then on to Linux and EMC.
> >
> > Marshall
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov] On Behalf Of Ray Henry
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:22 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > > Subject: Handbook info - EMC distributions
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > List
> > >
> > > I'm working up a chapter that will describe the
> installation of the
> > > EMC from sources that have been pulled together into a
> distribution.
> > > Any OS, any
> > > version, based on any distro.  There were some posts
> > > regarding a zipslack and
> > > a debian.  I'd like info on it, even if it's vaporware at
> the moment.
> > >
> > > What I have in hand are:
> > >
> > > BDI 2.14
> > > BDI TNG
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Ray
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