Can't load Ubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 13:23 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: 
> Hi All,  I have an old Dell computer that had xp on it. I accidentaly 
> wiped windows out but I don't need it anyway.  It is one Ghz with 512 
> memory card.  I am trying to install 10.04 with EMC . I have a CNC 
> milling machine almost finished and want to use EMC as my controler.  I 
> put a desktop cd in the drive and it ran right to the end but would not 
> open up in the monitor. After several tries I tried a complete install 
> of Ubuntu 10.04  from another cd. It seems to install but does not start 
> up only a blank screen and no sound of starting. In this operation I 
> accidentally did away with windows.  Grub comes up and I can select  
> Ubuntu. The monitor is and older one that I have used with Ubuntu before 
> I Moved it out the the workshop I think I used it with 8.04 so I guess 
> there are drivers in 10.4 that will work with IT??  The monitor did work 
> with XP.

Good link for you here
emc-users at lists.sourceforge.net

are you running this? 
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org

I have a friend on another list that does some pretty nifty stuff with
EMC. He suggested you try there. Ric


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