This is the ultimate in Linux proliferation .
All the while we had seen people trying to get Linux installed after many a herculean effort and finally finishing with nothing but a dead PC.

Now here comes the easiest solution. Actually it has been around for a while lingering in the woods and has now come to the open .

A software called " Wubi " ( http://wubi-installer.org/ ) now enables users to install linux on any partition which has free space in it . It is like this , suppose you have a D-drive(partition) which has something more than 5 Gb of free space. You can begin installing linux into that drive.

If you keep an image file of the Ubuntu flavor (the gutsy gibbon and Hardy heron thingies). And then double click on the installer.

You can choose the drive where you want to install ubuntu and ow much of space you wish to assign to it and also . And lo! in about 2 minutes( depends on how fast your hard drive can transmit data within itself) You would have copied all the data required to install ubuntu.

Now you get a request for a reboot . do it

select ubuntu form the list of OS's you get at the boot menu.

Simply hit next and wait for 10 minutes ! That's it you have your hardy ready for use.

This version of Ubuntu actually uses your windows partition as a hard drive , this is ;thanks due to Wubi .

if you get bored with ubuntu go to control panel-->add or remove programs--> and hit Uninstall
and ubuntu goes away leaving everything as it was before !!!!!!