EMC2 on Puppy linux.

Rick G wrote:

Is this where you started?

www.puppylinux.com/about.htm
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Emc_Puppy
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?CoolCnc.0.5

Yes it's this. But somwhere deep is live CD compilation. And I do from live CD. (not build from myself)

All I can find is this

www.thecooltool.com/produktgruppe.php?la...itel=CoolCNC+-+Linux

but all the links now appear dead or removed.

I can't finf on wiki too...
But same thing is there

cuteminds.com/index.php/en/puppy

and interesting things maybe on
www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=11578

Would you be able to upload the version of PL that you are currently using? Perhaps it would be a good start for anyone to try to make it current.

the link on post #14380 has link to ISO file from where I installed all the think

I've run out of time on this, without a successful result.

The best candidate I found for the distro, was Puppy Linux Lupu 511, which is linked to the Ubuntu Lucid repositories, so is easily updated and runs a fairly recent kernel (2.6.34 I think off the top of my head).

It is light enough to install easily on a slow old pentium desktop and has quite a good default interface.
I may well use it in the future if I have to press an old machine into service.

Wasted some time with Lubuntu and a couple of other distros, only to find that they though 4.1GB disk space was 'light'!

I was able to compile a variety of new kernels for Lupu, but hit problems compiling rtai.
The existing PL kernels are quite heavily patched themselves for squashfs, aufs etc and this seemed to conflict with the rtai patch. Rtai patched OK apparently, but then either produced a non-running kernel or one which magma would not compile against.

With more time would have had to sit down and run diff against the rtai .config and the PL .config and try to figure out where the conflicts were and if they were resolvable.

Hope someone else has more success

I'm intrested on light linux capable to run EMC with AXIS interface...

But my knowledge on Linux and C is just to low to be capable to do that by myself.
It's not need to be Puppy linux just some 'light' one..

I'll try to have another play with this later, probably try for a Debian small installation image so that it will run an unpatched clean kernel, and work from there.

Work piling up at present.

regards

An old topic, sorry, but I've just been having a go at getting LinuxCNC to run on Puppy Linux.

www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95640

I've succeeded in getting a Lucid 528 puppy going with an RT kernel (2.6.33.5-rt25) (i686).

I'd like to first try just loading a lucid packaged binary version of Linuxcnc, but my problem is puppy doesnt use apt-get as a package manager.

Is there a way I can just download the .deb directly without apt?

Thanks!