Well, I know it is much more likely I will be using turbocnc with this laptop, does anyone know some system requirements for emc?

Anyone know about running it on an old laptop?


Thanks!

Hi vacpress
i am running and older bdi of emc on a p200 and it works great

cheers
harty

rad-i-cool

Do you think a new version would work on your machine?

the newer bdis need more recources they do run on the older machine but there bloody slow to load

cheers
harty

ah.. so. i have gone looking for an install.. unfortunately my laptop has not got a cd-rom. I am getting a network card for it this evening, so i can get large files onto it.. The question is, is there a non-cd-boot install i can use to get the required realtime linux on here? I was looking at ubuntu and debian... both seem to be exclusively boot-cd... i remember instaling linux from a dos directory in the past...(way past.. 1995ish)

any advice? should i just go post in the debian or ubuntu forums?

thanks!

hi vac

bit out of my experience range with linux on that one sorry

cheers
harty

depends on if you have another linux computer handy or not. If you can mount a cdrom on another computer, you can do a network install from there. There are boot floppies that will allow you to do a network install for most distributions. They will start up your network and download the files from a remote computer. It's slower, but that's how we always did it before we could burn cd's. But there has to be a server set up with the distribution properly arranged for this to work. Best to use a local computer if you can.

You can also mount an ISO file under linux, so if there is a linux system handy, you don't have to burn the cd

grrr... i dunno. maybe i can put the files on a FTP server? Sounds like it will take forever. Luckily, i found a CD-ROM drive for the crummy old laptop. $20.00.
Gumble.

Thanks.