Boxford v190 cnc

[John11668]

I must admit that I get mightily perplexed by the jargon these software folks speak .
I am not illiterate , nor am I unintelligent , but I am totally at a loss with their instructions , and the software I have looked (like Rufus ) is anything but intuitive.
I am an engineer , I can do a bit of wiring, and have a passing aquaintance with rudimentary electronics . I am also English..
Why cant the software guys speak english too?

Or better still produce a bootable disc which does the equivalent of a windows disc. Lets face it we want to make our machines work.
We dont want to be software gurus.

[Clive S]

Or better still produce a bootable disc which does the equivalent of a windows disc. Lets face it we want to make our machines work.

Sorry but it can't be more simple than this that I posted earlier in the thread

https://forum.linuxcnc.org/9-install...nt-iso?start=0

it is an ISO so you can copy it to a dvd or use Etcher to make a bootable USB you might have to go into the bios to change the boot order for the usb.

You have to remember that cd and dvd drives ore disappearing .

Edit: To use Etcher download the iso then fire Etcher up and use that to flash the usb

https://www.balena.io/etcher/?ref=etcher_footer

[Doddy]

I must admit that I get mightily perplexed by the jargon these software folks speak .
I am not illiterate , nor am I unintelligent , but I am totally at a loss with their instructions , and the software I have looked (like Rufus ) is anything but intuitive.

I've a wry smile on my face as I type this. If you think that is bad... welcome to LinuxCNC :)

Yes, I know you're talking about the ISO burner, and I'll admit to not having tried that particular package, but you're gonna need a cup of tea and a pack of HobNobs if you're going to get your head around LinuxCNC. Standard setups are fairly straight forward, but go off piste and you'll be grinding your teeth.

[depronman]

I've a wry smile on my face as I type this. If you think that is bad... welcome to LinuxCNC :)

Yes, I know you're talking about the ISO burner, and I'll admit to not having tried that particular package, but you're gonna need a cup of tea and a pack of HobNobs if you're going to get your head around LinuxCNC. Standard setups are fairly straight forward, but go off piste and you'll be grinding your teeth.

I could not agree more Doddy
Every time I think I understand linuxcnc configuration I realise that I don’t
But I am getting there and the linuxcnc forum is excellent

The stepconfig wizard gets you the basic machine up and running then you built it up from there. I’ve eaten more than one packet of chocolate hobnobs

Don’t forget the parport configuration that I posted yesterday this tool me all evening to work out that the parport must be disabled in the bios This allows it to be seen along with a pci parport by Linux
This makes no sense to me but it worked on both versions of Linux and on linuxcnc 2.7.14. 2.7.15. 2.8. 2.9


Paul


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[depronman]

I must admit that I get mightily perplexed by the jargon these software folks speak .
I am not illiterate , nor am I unintelligent , but I am totally at a loss with their instructions , and the software I have looked (like Rufus ) is anything but intuitive.
I am an engineer , I can do a bit of wiring, and have a passing aquaintance with rudimentary electronics . I am also English..
Why cant the software guys speak english too?

Or better still produce a bootable disc which does the equivalent of a windows disc. Lets face it we want to make our machines work.
We dont want to be software gurus.

Hi John
I would be happy to burn you a dvd with the mint Linux and linuxcnc 2.8.0
I have used this very dvd today to set the HP of that arrives this week
Instal could not be simpler. Power on the pc. Open the dvd tray and pop in the dvd disk
Power off and then back on and press f9 and f10 repeatedly
You will get a boot selection screen. Select disk and wait a few seconds
Mint will start to boot up from the dvd

Once into the mint desktop there is disk icon on the desktop that you click to install mint and linuxcnc onto the desktop

Cheers. Paul


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