Installing LinuxCnc on and SSD

Hello,

first off I want to apologize. I know this is asked all the time and I have asked it before. Though I always ALWAYS have tons of trouble with this and I don’t know why.

I have an external SSD drive that I want linuxcnc on. I have a usb drive I intend to use as the downloader for that SSD drive. I can never fully figure out how to do this properly.

It will control a plasma CNC table that utilizes an Ethernet mesa card. I do not want a live system. I want a fully functional and programmable one

what do I download onto the usb to format the SSD?

again I’m sorry!

Wait!

I think I think I remember where to find the instructionsFresh installs of LinuxCNC are most easily created using the Live/Install Image. This is a hybrid ISO filesystem image that can be written to a USB storage device or a DVD and used to boot a computer. At boot time you will be given a choice of booting the "Live" system (to run LinuxCNC without making any permanent changes to your computer) or booting the Installer (to install LinuxCNC and its operating system onto your computer’s hard drive).The outline of the process looks like this:

1. Download the Live/Install Image.
2. Write the image to a USB storage device using Rufus.
3. Boot the Live system to test out LinuxCNC.
4. Boot the Installer to install LinuxCNC.

0. Remove the internal hard drive/SSD/NVME

6. Install on the external drive same as when using internal one.

  Thank you, I’m getting this… so maybe my SSD is bad. But it’s new so I didn’t know

Remove the live usb, wait 5 seconds, insert it, wait 5 sec, press yes and next.

That worked thank you!

The other part I always mess up is after installing.

so I’m going to config a machine with 7i76eu + thcad-2 (I think, whatever model the currently have). So I need to configure the system with plasmac

i alway alway forget how to set plasmac on the system.

If you forget something, you can use the wizard to edit that same config, or just make another one, you can have as much config as you like.

Okay, is qtplasmac built in to the basic config wizard now? Or do I have to download it or upload something for it?