Gene: Your email & information made my day/night as I've been working on the instruction you provided. So far, I've been able to download the BDI and would like to burn ........ :) Anyway, was not able to complete the CD writing as I got an error in the writing process wizard that MS XP uses. Something about the CD disc may no longer be useable??? I wouldn't know how to react if everything would of went without any errors showing up. Will check this out further in the morning. By the time I'm able to get this sorted out that EMC 2 tree sounds like it may be ready to go. It's also encouraging to hear that you're making excellent progress. Thank you again for the assistance. Cordially, Peter A----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Heskett" <[email protected]> To: "Help and advice for BDI-4 users." <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [Bdi4emc-help] Installation Exception
On Monday 13 February 2006 18:16, Peter Skerda wrote:
Greetings - This Old Gezzer has only recently tried to become familiar with Linux BDI & make Installation on a CNC System. Hope I got the picture right? Installation is on an OS free system no other systems on HD. Using Linux BDI & EMC 4.18 to install. Piece of cake - Right? Can get to the Graphical Interface (x) configuration, easy enough, then (hope you all are ready for this) get this window stating that an exception occurred. "an unhandled exception has occurred. This is most likely a bug." Also in another screen get the message - Init: cannot execute "/etc/X11/prefdm" - Init: Id "x" respawning too fast : disabled for 5 minutes. That's the end of the story & installation. Didn't mean to write a novel but any assistance or direction will be very much appreciated. Thank you all very much! Pepper _______________________________________________ Bdi4emc-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bdi4emc-help
Peter: I'd start at this link: <http://www.cncgear.com/EMC/BDI/> and download and burn the BDI-4.38.iso you can see there. Lots of build problems are bypassed by having a fully working emc install that you only need to configure for your hardware and then run it.
There is also a wiki link off linuxcnc.org with a page detailing howto download, build, and use the emc2 tree from a cvs pulldown. This is however the development branch, and may not build on any given evening, so I do a new pull & build about weekly. This is a much more capable (IMO) version of emc with a few gnarly places here and there, but the development pace is fairly feverish. I'd make a swag that it will be ready for all to beat on before very much longer. Given warmer weather since my shop isn't heated, I'd be carving parts with emc2 right now.
-- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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