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VK2RQ > HELP 08.04.13 02:25l 44 Lines 1858 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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There are a few options for using Ubintu, depending what you want
to do.
- Use Ubuntu WUBI Windows Installer. This installs Ubuntu on your
Windows disk without having to repartition your disk. It allows
you to experiment with Ubuntu with minimal impact to your existing
system.
- Run Ubuntu from a DVD drive or USB stick. This is minimal impact,
not requiring you to install anything. You just boot off the DVD
or the USB stick, and in the case of a DVD, Ubuntu can preserve any file
changes you by saving them on your windows hard drive. Performance will
not be great, but it allows you to experiement.
- Run Ubuntu under a virtual machine on your Windows machine. Here you
can use a virtualisation program like VMWare to create a "virtual
machine" onto which you can install Ubuntu. The advantage of this is
that you can run Ubuntu and Windows at the same time. The disadvantage
is that you need more memory on your machine to run both systems together
at the same time. A virtual machine is also convenient because it is easy
to back up the virtual machine and move it onto a different physical PC.
- Install Ubuntu on a dedicated partition. You can either repartition
your existing disk, or equip your PC with a new disk that you will use
for Ubuntu.
Once you have a running Linux system, then the fun really starts :-)
Linux provides some tools for making connections etc.. If you want to
run a mailbox, then fbb works very well, although it is perhaps a little
bit of overkill.
How you set up your packet system on Linux depends on how you plan to
connect to other packet systems (TNCs? soundcards? Internet?). A good
place to start is probably here:
http://wiki.complete.org/LinuxPacketRadio
It is a bit of a learning curve, but feel free to ask any quetions here.
73 es good luck,
Matt VK2RQ
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