[ELECTRON] 26th – 31st October 2010

[Nick]

On 03/10/10 19:41, Michael Glavin wrote:
> I too have chosen ubuntu to use the s/w install manager for easy
> installation of the open source tools available; schematic editors, pcb
> design tools etc. However, I am reluctant to do so since I already have
> windows 7 64-bit on my system. I reserved 200 Gbytes for this purpose
> when partitioning my disk prior to windows install. But I have no idea
> if ubuntu will be kind and not trash things.


Use the "Wubi" installer for Ubuntu.   You don't even then need to create a
separate partition - Linux is installed into a file on the windows partition;
this is mounted as a loopback device when Linux is running.

I've done this to check Ubuntu with a new laptop. The whole thing works like
installing an application under windows.  Removing it is than as hard as
uninstalling that application, and the computer is returned to the state it was
before.

N