On Tuesday 21 August 2018 03:20:43 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 21. August 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > On Monday 20 August 2018 10:41:23 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > > Am Montag, 20. August 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > > > [...]
> > > > These guys make a pretty good installer simply because they know
> > > > what it needs and doesn't need to run LinuxCNC right. They don't
> > > > care if it doesn't run on cousin Molly's washing machine,
> > > > although with some config effort, it can probably run it, better
> > > > than the programming it came with.
> > > >
> > > > I certainly had no such problems installing tde on top of the
> > > > kde I originally loaded onto my Dell running a grizzly G0704
> > > > mill on a special wheezy install.  So I'll do the same and then
> > > > install tde on that.
> > > >
> > > > Back later with grins or tears.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Michelle.
> > >
> > > Hi Gene!
> > >
> > > You should definitly walk the devuan road. I had a hell of a time
> > > with machinekit on BBB, till I found out how to get rid of the
> > > systemd stuff. When you run stretch + linuxcnc, you'll most likely
> > > get bad surprises (aka. latency > 400000ns) with the 4.*-rtpreempt
> > > kernel
> > >
> > > Nik
> >
> > Its tears so far Nik. There are so many differences just in the
> > ext4's used that one of them should be renamed, they will NOT cross
> > mount, ext4 disk to ext4 mount.
>
> Hi Gene!
>
> When you cannot mount the ext4 partions from one another, then there
> is something very wrong. ext4 can be mounted as ext2 and that should
> alway work - at least, if the drives and filesystems are ok.
>
> Nik

I'll try that (mounting the old wheezy partitions as ext2) on the next 
install, but first feed the missus.


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