install "EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition" to Windows, and make an empty partition
install "Universal USB Installer" to Windows, and make an Ubuntu bootable USB stick
Restart computer, and boot from the USB.
Follow the instruction, and install Ubuntu to your machine.
setup
update and upgrade apt-get
% sudo apt-get update
% sudo apt-get upgrade
install emacs
% sudo apt-get install emacs
install GMT & NetCDF
Option 1 From apt-get: this is easy, but due to library problem, netcdf library doesn't work on gfortran program.
% sudo apt-get install gmt
% sudo apt-get install netcdf-bin
Option 2 From GMT web site: this takes time, but you can choose C compiler manually. If you have both ifort and icc and are going to use ifort for standard fortran compiler, take this option setting C compiler to icc.
get a shell script "install_gmt" at http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu