EMC on P233 Laptop?

[vacpress]

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!

[harty]

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

cheers
harty

[vacpress]

rad-i-cool

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

[harty]

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

cheers
harty

[vacpress]

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!

[harty]

hi vac

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

cheers
harty

[unterhaus]

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

[vacpress]

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.