[ELECTRON] 26th – 31st October 2010

[Finlay McCourt]

As I read it he has a partition reserved for an Ubuntu install anyway, in
which case he will be able to install to that partition with the standard
live disc installer anyway.
Selecting the partition is part of the standard Ubuntu installer, and it
will install grub2 to allow you to switch between Win7 and Ubuntu on boot.
Doing it the other way round is a problem (Ubuntu then Windows) as the
Windows installer *will* wipe it all.

Finlay

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Nick <oinksocket at letterboxes.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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