Linux Mint ISO with RTAI and RT

When you get a chance have a look at the RT iso I linked to, so far install straight forward in a virtual machine.

You need an apprentice ? hahahaha

BeagleBrainz wrote:
You need an apprentice ? hahahaha

One ????
I need 4 and most probably all of them will be rolling on the floor by the end of day from chasing me !
I will give it a try for sure, thank you for everything.
FYI the RTAI version is a full backup of an existing machine and it starts Linuxcnc automaticaly. Maybe that will work, but i will test that later for sure.

[strike]Just used my iso burnt to dvd to install.

Installation process is as per an official Linux Mint installation medium.

Next test will be to install on the core 2 duo iMac I found on the side of the road.

Seems this kernel, or this particualr machine, still requires the use of pressing shift on the "Regenerating SSL" message.

But I can say I am typing this from said installation on my T530.

My conclusion would be that Cubic is the way to go for remastering.[/strike]

Cubic ?
I am more than willing to try that as i have waisted to much time chasing gremlins using pinguybuilder, it started by creating a 38KB iso image !
Tested it again last two nights, it just removes ubiquity no matter what i do.
I did try the chroot vesrion with 17.3 and 18.1 and none of them worked.
At least with this i got it to boot properly always. And since that is what i use mostly the install procces never got tested. I did test it with DD and it works and boots properly, but that would require using the Live version after install to grow the partition with Gparted, and that is not for the faint of heart as any misstake results in loss of evrrything on the HDD/SSD.
Side note, last night used pinguybuilder and today i could not update or upgrade anymore, for some reason it removed the /etc/apt folder completely! It does that during image creation and simce that failed, it never put the folder back. It also added all the useless repositories so i had to remove those.
Beagle and all, thank you.

I linked to Cubic here.
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...d-rt?start=20#156435

It's pretty easy to use, once it's gone thru it's setup and file copying and such, you get dropped into a chroot and can install and remove packages at will (within reason).

I had a play and removed libreoffice and some "fluff" I reckon a cnc machine doesn't need, ie: transmission, libreoffice, hexchat and rhythm, just to see how it copes with removing software. All went well.

The only issues I came across were the DNS (resolv.conf) and the config for isolinux but I'm sure I linked to solutions for them. Initial reading of the iso image can take a few minutes longer than what you expect.

If I were to rate this I would give if [strike]107[/strike] 102.78 Pimply Faced Youth Jnr Admins out of 109.

Cubic creates a iso that is not a hybrid ie: issues booting from USB
easy fix is to use isohybrid /path/to/iso/image

I gave Cubic a try, several images, none of them boot complaining of not finding the boot media or fail at busybox. Editing grub, adding live-boot and anything i could throw at it did not work.
Will try to find some time to download Beagle's ISO and give it a run.
Got me thinking, it takes about 20 minutes to install Mint, install the "kona" kernel and Linuxcnc, reboot and make chips, as described here:
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...nd-easy-installation
So why bother wasting so much time making this work ????
1 reason is that i use USB to test computers if they are fit for machine use, a lot, and that was my motivation to make the bootable ISO's that can actually run a machine. Done ! Never did try the install procedure.
I did add some more dependencies on the first post that might just work, to be checked and rechecked, if time permits.