Migrating config files from Ubuntu to Wheezy

That is pretty odd, I've installed the Debian hybrid ISO a few times till I gave up on it and it was straight forward follow the bouncing ball.

JT

BigJohnT wrote: That is pretty odd, I've installed the Debian hybrid ISO a few times till I gave up on it and it was straight forward follow the bouncing ball.

What I thought, once I got a thumb-drive that worked. Maybe I'll try it one more time.

So the LinuxCNC folder (in the Etc directory) should not have root as owner?

If not, any idea where/how I could have instructed that?

krlynn wrote:

BigJohnT wrote: That is pretty odd, I've installed the Debian hybrid ISO a few times till I gave up on it and it was straight forward follow the bouncing ball.

What I thought, once I got a thumb-drive that worked. Maybe I'll try it one more time.

So the LinuxCNC folder (in the Etc directory) should not have root as owner?

If not, any idea where/how I could have instructed that?

You do not use any files in the root file system at all and yes all the files in / are owned by root and the files in /home/yourname are owed by you. When you run LinuxCNC for the first time it creates directories in your home folder. This is where your configuration files are. For me it is /home/john/linuxcnc/configs.

JT

I have often had to struggle when trying to mount usb drives in Linux, but I do it so infrequently I can't offer much help other than to say you have my sympathy.

Try googling "mounting usb drive debian"

All of your config files go in a Linuxcnc folder in your user's home dir. (It isn't automatically created until after you start Linuxcnc for the first time.)

Todd Zuercher wrote: I have often had to struggle when trying to mount usb drives in Linux, but I do it so infrequently I can't offer much help other than to say you have my sympathy.

Try googling "mounting usb drive debian"

All of your config files go in a Linuxcnc folder in your user's home dir. (It isn't automatically created until after you start Linuxcnc for the first time.)

Thanks, do you think it might work differently if I burned the iso file to a DVD and installed from that instead?

If you were able to install the system from the USB device, trying again using a DVD disk will not likely give you any different results (unless you configure the installation differently this time around.)

If you were never able to get the Linuxcnc iso, properly installed on the usb drive, and did not install Debian Wheezy with it, then yes you might have better luck burning a DVD.

If you have installed Debian Wheezy from the Linuxcnc iso, (either from USB or a DVD) and you just want to copy over configuration files from another install you just need to copy the config files from the linuxcnc directory in the users home dir, from one machine to the other. No root privileges needed or involved in this process at all.

One note about installing an iso of a CD or DVD to a USB thumb drive. I've found that after doing this you can't really use any unused space on that drive. Unless you do something to recover that unused space. (I haven't had much luck with that.)