Backup and restore of the working configuration

JohnnyCNC wrote: "With WinSCP do you have to setup ssh on the Linux box ? I'm haven't used windows for while or used WinSCP. "

Yes. Just do these two commands and it is ready to go.

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install openssh-server

What do you have now in the /etc/apt/sources.list file?
Could you give its correct current content?

Ogogon,

This is all that is in mine

#deb cdrom:[Linux Mint 19.3 _Tricia_ - Release amd64 20191216]/ bionic contrib m
ain non-free

While looking around in the /etc/apt directory I saw this directory
:/etc/apt/sources.list.d

In that directory was this list of files:
danielrichter2007-grub-customizer-bionic.list
official-dbgsym-repositories.list
official-package-repositories.list
official-source-repositories.list

I have no idea what would be considered "correct" content. This all came from doing a clean install of Linux Mint 19.3 and then installing the Grub Customizer, OpenSSH, and LinuxCNC 2.8.0~Pre1.

As using search is too much trouble...
Look at this for /etc/apt/sources.list
forum.linuxcnc.org/38-general-linuxcnc-q...itory-expired#155502

JohnnyCNC wrote: I have no idea what would be considered "correct" content. This all came from doing a clean install of Linux Mint 19.3 and then installing the Grub Customizer, OpenSSH, and LinuxCNC 2.8.0~Pre1.

If I understand correctly, you are not using Debian Wheezy, but installed Mint, and then CNC on it?
And have you ever installed any real-time subsystem in the Mint's kernel?
A CNC-function directly with git?

Ogogon.

If you have a look through the forum you will find a rather large thread discussing the installation of a real time kernel and linuxcnc on Mint.
You'll will a lot more by actually browsing the forums, you can almost guarantee any question you have regarding installation and running linuxcnc has been asked, most of them rather recently.
You may even find links to JT's fantastic documentation on getting Linuxcnc running on various versions of Debian & Mint.

I was previously was using Debian Wheezy and LinuxCNC 2.7.15. I wanted to get to a later version of Linux and LinuxCNC 2.8.0. I did this by getting a new SSD and doing a fresh install of both. That way I had the old drive to fall back to if needed. I chose Linux Mint 19.3 and got LinuxCNC 2.8.0~Pre1 and the RTAI kernel from linuxcnc.org/temp (see below) . I am using the RTAI kernel rather than the PREEMPT kernel because I am using a Mesa 5i25+7i76. I made my first chips yesterday on t his new version.

I only needed these four files for what I was doing.


I figured out how to do this by reading a lot of threads on this site and getting help for specific issues from other posters. I installed five different versions of Linux, some multiple times, before I was able to get to where I wanted to be and be able go through the process smoothly.

I don't know what you mean by "A CNC-function directly with git?". I didn't need anything from GitHub or to use git for this project.