New Project with Mesa 7I96 and THCAD-05

I always go back to Windows and use win32diskimager

The file was large and took forever to download and for nothing lol. I ran through win32disk and it took about 20 minutes to write it and I tried to boot from it but wont do anything. I put it back to see whats installed and it show some other stuff not the .iso file. Not sure what step i missed I tried renaming the file to .img and still didnt work.

What file do i need to download just get this thing going? From this site www.linuxcnc.org/testing-stretch-rtpreempt/

OK I did the debian install route and that worked then I downloaded the zip file to get linuxcnc install and it installed 2.9 will that work with mesa cards? I started the pnconfig wizard and went through the steps and went to open the gui and it gives me a error again.

I fixed the address for the board on my connections to 10.10.10.11 still get the same error

Can you ping the card? If you can't sort out the network side first.

Yes I can computer is set up with
Ip-10.10.10.11
Mask- 8
GW-10.10.10.1

I can ping the board
10.10.10.10

Attach hal and ini files, and also the debug part of the error.