Re: Ubuntu + EMC

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "jerryjankura"
<jerry.jankura@...> wrote:

>
> Hi, Folks:
>
> It's been quite a while since I've posted anything here, but it's
> finally time to bite the bullet and take a decent look at EMC2 with
> Ubuntu Linux.
>
> I downloaded the ISO CD image, burnt a CD from it, and can boot Linux
> from the CD and execute EMC2. So far, so good.
>
> Now, I'd like to make my computer dual-boot and have Linux and EMC2
> share a hard drive. The computer I'm using is a Sony PCG-F430; the
> hard drive is 40 Mbytes and I've already partitioned it into a 20
> mbyte FAT32 partition for Win 98.
>
> Where do I go from there?

What you're trying to do is really easy to do these days. I just did
exactly what you're trying to do a few days ago with win2k pro and Ubuntu.

If I read your post right you now have a blank fat32 partition and the
rest of the hard drive is unpartitioned? This is good. Now install
Win 98. After it's completely installed, shutdown the computer, and
reboot it from the ubuntu CD. When ubuntu is running there is an icon
on the desktop or a menu item in one of the menus (I can't remember
which) to install ubuntu to the hard disk. Run the install. Make
sure you select the option to only use the free unpartitioned space on
the hard drive when it asks about partitioning - the default would
wipe the whole drive. Ubuntu will automatically find the windows
installation and put a menu item in the bootloader to boot windows.

That's all there is to it! If you try and install windows after
ubuntu, it will overwrite the linux boot loader and will NOT put an
option to boot linux. Fixing this is much harder than fixing the
linux bootloader if the option to boot windows gets messed up or deleted.

There's a script on the emc website for installing emc2 on ubuntu.
Save the script to your desktop, right click on it and select
"Properties", go to the permissions tab and check the "execute"
checkboxes. Close the properties and double-click the icon to run the
script which will download and install emc2. You'll need to reboot
because it installs a new kernel, and emc will be in the applications
menu.

Have fun!

disclaimer: I haven't actually used emc yet so I don't know much about
it yet! I do use linux all the time though.

Moses