<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">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. <br><br>Has anyone installed ubuntu this way yet?<br><br>Kind Regards,<br>Mike<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 3/10/10, JOHN COUZIN <i>&lt;john.c.at95@btinternet.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: JOHN COUZIN &lt;john.c.at95@btinternet.com&gt;<br>Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] 26th – 31st October 2010<br>To: "Discussion list for the Electron Club" &lt;members@electronclub.org&gt;<br>Date:
 Sunday, 3 October, 2010, 17:37<br><br><div id="yiv2022951594"><style type="text/css"><!--#yiv2022951594 DIV {margin:0px;}--></style><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Thursday night sounds good to me.&nbsp;&nbsp; John.<br></div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Bob &lt;bob@citystrolls.com&gt;<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion list for the Electron Club &lt;members@electronclub.org&gt;<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 3 October, 2010 17:27:45<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ELECTRON] 26th – 31st October 2010<br></font><br>Hi Martin Yeah I'm up for it. Ch Bob<br><br>On 03/10/2010 16:58, Martin McGrath wrote:<br>&gt; Sorry guys,<br>&gt;<br>&gt; I've been pretty busy and lost focus of this Ubuntu introduction night we<br>&gt; talked about before.<br>&gt; As it happens I've just taken delivery of a new laptop. We could use this as<br>&gt; the basis for what I previously discussed:<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Bob,<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Perhaps that would be a good idea. We could cover basic Linux installs, post<br>&gt; OS installation tweaks, installing software using the package manager
 or<br>&gt; from source code and some basic trouble shooting.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Is this the sort of thing you had in mind?<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Thursday nights seem free, is this good for you both?<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Thanks<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Martin<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; On 3 October 2010 16:41, JOHN COUZIN&lt;<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:john.c.at95@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=john.c.at95@btinternet.com">john.c.at95@btinternet.com</a>&gt;&nbsp; wrote:<br>&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; or Ubuntu workshop??&nbsp; John.<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt;&nbsp; ------------------------------<br>&gt;&gt; *From:* Bob&lt;<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bob@citystrolls.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=bob@citystrolls.com">bob@citystrolls.com</a>&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; *To:* Electron Club members&lt;<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:members@electronclub.org" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=members@electronclub.org">members@electronclub.org</a>&gt;<br>&gt;&gt;
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