[ELECTRON] 26th – 31st October 2010

[Michael Glavin]

The grub2 method was a complete success. Not only did it retain my windows install, it also produced an option to remove the ubuntu install. One other nice feature was that at the start of the install, ubuntu offered to import windows specific details such as my contacts and favorites... etc.

The s/w download manager was excellent too, and I am now primed to reverse engineer my bread board prototype design into a schematic.

The project, for anyone who is interested, is a usb controlled switch unit that uses RF to activates 240V appliances using voice commands. So far, I can turn on my main lights by saying 'lights', lamps on by saying 'lamps' and valve amplifier on by saying 'music on'. Of course, I can also switch these off by saying '... off'

It currently supports 64 appliances.

With Kind Regards,
Mike
  
--- On Mon, 4/10/10, Michael Glavin <micl_glavin at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

From: Michael Glavin <micl_glavin at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] 26th – 31st October 2010
To: "Discussion list for the Electron Club" <members at electronclub.org>
Date: Monday, 4 October, 2010, 0:20

I will try the grub2 method tomorrow and let you know the outcome. Many thanks for the feedback.

Kindest Regards,
Mike

--- On Sun, 3/10/10, Finlay McCourt <finlaymccourt at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Finlay McCourt <finlaymccourt at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] 26th – 31st October 2010
To: "Discussion list for the Electron Club" <members at electronclub.org>
Date: Sunday, 3 October, 2010, 23:25

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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