Tiny Computer with Printer port
19 Sep 2014 19:29 #51341
by tkamsker
Replied by tkamsker on topic Tiny Computer with Printer port
Hi,
i was mentioned lately here in this thread
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Question have you documented the steps how you managed to get the 2.7.x (or better 2.6.3 ) to run ?
I would love to do that for the cnc lathe i have (that if why i bought an ncbox th first place
i would then do it from scratch and document it for the others ,..
because i have tourchsceeem gmoccpy and and tool changer so 2.6 is mandatory
thx
thomas
i was mentioned lately here in this thread
-Question have you documented the steps how you managed to get the 2.7.x (or better 2.6.3 ) to run ?
I would love to do that for the cnc lathe i have (that if why i bought an ncbox th first place
i would then do it from scratch and document it for the others ,..
because i have tourchsceeem gmoccpy and and tool changer so 2.6 is mandatory
thx
thomas
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19 Sep 2014 20:29 #51345
by midworld08
Replied by midworld08 on topic Tiny Computer with Printer port
Matterest,
You might be right and that Grub boot loader is not happy with the CF cards, as its a rather early version. I had some mixed results with a 4G card here, which I attempted to put the later grub onto, and then point to the linux install, but I could never get the boot table to look at the right HDD, and the NCBox did not seem to assign the same numbering each time it booted. I remember getting very frustrated, and out of my depth in that area so I gave up, and ordered the flash card that others had working. But I am sure I was onto something.
Thomas,
I was following instructions from yourself and Arceye downloads on compiling the Kernel, and installing the later version 2.5. I got that running. The rough instructions are;
1) Set the NCBox up so it looks at the old Ubuntu repository, and update the repository headers. I had to do this, as when compiling the kernal I had some dependancies that would not solve, so I had to do this to compile in the first place.
2) Used Github to aquire the latest LinuxCNC source code. (This was actually a mistake, I was going for a slightly earlier version, but alas this version runs well)
3) Followed the instructions on compiling the source code from Linuc CNC documentation.
4) Whenever a dependancy was hit, and compiling would stop, I would look on the repository for it and install it. Several of the dependencies I also had to github and compile from source.
5) One dependency that would not resolve was the USB, that was not available from the Ubuntu old repository in source or compiled image, and at the time I could not find source of it from another place...later Arceye posted a link, which I acquired the files, but never went about using it (well my machine is running
)
6) So the compilation gave the option to compile even though the USB dependency was there, and I said yes, and it was the only thing left that it was complaining about.
That was it. On page 12 of this thread is some more of the details. OK the above is not the command by command blow of it. I do have some pretty good notes stored on the NCBox of the instructions and my notes that I followed. So I'll see if I can find that and post more on it.
I have yet to also follow a recommendation to compile the code and not have to type in the commands to run the RIP install. I recently copied my CF card, and tested the copy, so I am about to see if I can re-compile it all and make it into a permanent install and make it boot directly into it. I did not want to touch the working version, as it took some time to get there, and one silly mistake with this stuff and you kiss it all good bye.
You are welcome to the image I have as it sit Thomas. Its a 16Gig file, as I have dd'ed off the card. I have not figured out how to make it smaller yet, as the dd copies everything, and the card it actually only 8.5GB in size with all data on it. I had a look at it, but setting up a virtual FS, and coping into it, and then bla bla bla was again at my limits. I was happy to make chips for a time.
You might be right and that Grub boot loader is not happy with the CF cards, as its a rather early version. I had some mixed results with a 4G card here, which I attempted to put the later grub onto, and then point to the linux install, but I could never get the boot table to look at the right HDD, and the NCBox did not seem to assign the same numbering each time it booted. I remember getting very frustrated, and out of my depth in that area so I gave up, and ordered the flash card that others had working. But I am sure I was onto something.
Thomas,
I was following instructions from yourself and Arceye downloads on compiling the Kernel, and installing the later version 2.5. I got that running. The rough instructions are;
1) Set the NCBox up so it looks at the old Ubuntu repository, and update the repository headers. I had to do this, as when compiling the kernal I had some dependancies that would not solve, so I had to do this to compile in the first place.
2) Used Github to aquire the latest LinuxCNC source code. (This was actually a mistake, I was going for a slightly earlier version, but alas this version runs well)
3) Followed the instructions on compiling the source code from Linuc CNC documentation.
4) Whenever a dependancy was hit, and compiling would stop, I would look on the repository for it and install it. Several of the dependencies I also had to github and compile from source.
5) One dependency that would not resolve was the USB, that was not available from the Ubuntu old repository in source or compiled image, and at the time I could not find source of it from another place...later Arceye posted a link, which I acquired the files, but never went about using it (well my machine is running
)6) So the compilation gave the option to compile even though the USB dependency was there, and I said yes, and it was the only thing left that it was complaining about.
That was it. On page 12 of this thread is some more of the details. OK the above is not the command by command blow of it. I do have some pretty good notes stored on the NCBox of the instructions and my notes that I followed. So I'll see if I can find that and post more on it.
I have yet to also follow a recommendation to compile the code and not have to type in the commands to run the RIP install. I recently copied my CF card, and tested the copy, so I am about to see if I can re-compile it all and make it into a permanent install and make it boot directly into it. I did not want to touch the working version, as it took some time to get there, and one silly mistake with this stuff and you kiss it all good bye.
You are welcome to the image I have as it sit Thomas. Its a 16Gig file, as I have dd'ed off the card. I have not figured out how to make it smaller yet, as the dd copies everything, and the card it actually only 8.5GB in size with all data on it. I had a look at it, but setting up a virtual FS, and coping into it, and then bla bla bla was again at my limits. I was happy to make chips
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