Need Help

Maybe I'm just dense. I cant get this to work on my computer. I am attempting to run this on an HP 630. It is a fairly late model computer, Intel Pentium llll. Windows XP system. It has no internet connectivity. I am using a laptop to download the .iso file and burn it to a CD. I also have it on a USB Flash drive. I would really like to use EMC2 to run my CNC, but for the life of me I cant get it to boot Linux. I guess I need someone to tell me what to do, step by step. I am just an old farm boy that built a CNC machine and now I am trying to get the computer end working. I'm not a computer expert and just need some more instruction of how to get EMC2 to work. It looks like it will do the job if I can get it to work. I guess I just need some help. Thank you for you response.

I have no problem using other CD's on that drive. I have used that computer for many years for other things. It seems to work just fine.

Good Afternoon,

I am happy to report I followed your directions exactly and I can see Ubuntu trying to boot when I start the computer. I am celebrating a minor victory! But unfortunately I get an error message that locks up my system, it reads; "(process : 329) : GLib- WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)". The system just locks up there. If I remove the CD and unplug it, Windows comes up fine. I feel good progress here, just a another tweak and I should have it. HooRay! (lol) . Any help or directions would be greatly appreciated.

I have been using that PC for quite some time. It does have a parallel port. I'm very sure of that because my old printer only worked on a parallel port. It has several USB ports as well. I am pretty sure the model says 630 on the front. I will try the older version and see if that works. This model as a Pentium 4 with a gig of ram though. It is probably less than 5 years old. I use an IMac now. Too bad This doesn't run on a Mac.