Struggling to install 2.7 onto my ancient Dell Dimension 8200. Any suggestions?

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26 Aug 2018 04:28 #116593 by berntd
That old Dell machine It is running 2.5 but is full of issues.

So I downloaded the latest ISO file and burned it to a DVD.. Only to find the Dell only has a CD drive not DVD.
The image is too big to fit onto a CD!!

Next burned the ISO onto a USB stick. It took over an hour with dd under Cygwin...

Only to find that the Dell cannot boot from USB.

I am not an expert. I must have installed 2.5 years ago from a CD. I can't remember.

What can I do now to get 2.7 on there?

It still boots into Ubuntu 2.5 if that is of any use.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated as I want to keep using that machine.

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26 Aug 2018 06:27 #116594 by tommylight
There are several boot managers on the net to help boot a usb on computers that can not do that, just search for it, like plop boot manager and some others, i can not recall the naming, it has been quite some time.

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26 Aug 2018 06:41 - 26 Aug 2018 06:43 #116596 by berntd
I have since created a a new bootable partition on the spare part of the hard drive and then installed the iso image into it with dd...

I now wonder if / how I can swap to boot from that new partition at all?
And will I then be able to install into the old partition?

This thing dowes not have grub2 and not even grub.
I can't get it connected to the internet either to install stuff.

?

Regards
Bernt
Last edit: 26 Aug 2018 06:43 by berntd.

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26 Aug 2018 22:50 - 26 Aug 2018 22:56 #116625 by Todd Zuercher

That old Dell machine It is running 2.5 but is full of issues.

So I downloaded the latest ISO file and burned it to a DVD.. Only to find the Dell only has a CD drive not DVD.
The image is too big to fit onto a CD!!

Next burned the ISO onto a USB stick. It took over an hour with dd under Cygwin...

Only to find that the Dell cannot boot from USB.

I am not an expert. I must have installed 2.5 years ago from a CD. I can't remember.

What can I do now to get 2.7 on there?

It still boots into Ubuntu 2.5 if that is of any use.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated as I want to keep using that machine.


The images that were used with 2.5 were Ubuntu 10.04 and fit on a CD. It is possible to update that to Linuxcnc 2.7 using apt-get or Synaptic. I still have one machine running that OS version with the current release of Linuxcnc. It has been updated several times and started with 2.4.
Last edit: 26 Aug 2018 22:56 by Todd Zuercher.

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29 Aug 2018 16:05 #116779 by andypugh

That old Dell machine It is running 2.5 but is full of issues.

What can I do now to get 2.7 on there?


You should be able to just upgrade.

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/getting-start...dating-linuxcnc.html

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