Comments on: How to dual boot your Asus Eee PC 900 with Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux

By: Daem(on)

Daem(on) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:39:40 +0000

Just wanted to thank you for this rather simple, straightforward guide. Good Job!

By: RayC

RayC — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:06:50 +0000

When I did a dual-boot install of Ubuntu 8.04, at first I didn’t get the “Guided” option when it came to disk partitioning. I went back to Windows and defragmented again, which didn’t help. So I went back to Windows again and ran chkdsk (open a DOS window and type chkdsk c: /f ). It needs a reboot to run this scan as Windows comes up, which I did. When I returned to the Ubuntu install, it now gave the the “Guided” option. I selected 50% for Ubuntu, 50% for Windows, and everything went fine!

By: sevda

sevda — Sat, 16 May 2009 22:41:20 +0000

hallo habe ein toshiba nb100 mit ubuntu linux. möchte aber windows xp drauf haben geht aber nicht.#hilfe

By: SinoSamba

SinoSamba — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:12:09 +0000

Thank you for the how-to. Most sites don’t explain how to make it dual boot. For the person that did not see the option for guided partition with winxp and ubuntu, I had the same issue. Make sure all your drives are un-mounted and that you have less than 4 partition on your HD (you can use the partition utility under administration to check for that). This worked for me.

By: Ozgur

Ozgur — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:59:44 +0000

Goedag

Ik heb eeepc 900.
Ik niet starten van af usb of SSD
Als eeepc start druk ik op esc.
Hieruit kies is usb of ssd met daarop lunix iso.
Maar er komt alleen een zwart scherm.
Ik heb ook geprobeerd met uitgepakte iso stand daarop.
Dat werk ook niet.

Weten julllie een raad mee.

Gr. Ozgur

By: Hayden

Hayden — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:58:40 +0000

Will these instructions work on a EEE 1000HA? Thanks!

By: ted clark

ted clark — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:37:37 +0000

i’ve set up a windows/ubuntu dual-boot on my Eee pc 1000H. When starting i press esc. and get the screen that gives me the option of which os to boot into. windows is the defualt option and the instruction on the screen says to use the up/down arrow keys to make my choice, but i have been unable to change the highlighted choice (windows) since the up/down arrors dont work for some reason. in other words my keyboard seems unresponsive at this spash screen. HELP

By: freon500

freon500 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:23:51 +0000

Damm you’re good! … and thank you very much all the work it took to put this guide together. I was floundering around in the internet trying to find some help for the the last five days trying to get my eee to dual boot or even to boot Linux and could not find a good guide, no offense to others who posted, but it was just all over my head, anyway your guide is really great, it works!
One thing I’d like to add is that my first memory stick even though I formatted it, just didn’t work and I remember reading something about memory sticks and this kind of problem, so I tried a different one and, … Bingo!
Please let me encourage you to keep up the great work.

By: Mårten

Mårten — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:59:52 +0000

Hi!
Thnx for the guide.
My problem is when it comes to partitioning i don’t get the first option, the one that you have highlighted.
Im using the latest Ubuntu EEE, tryin to install on my 1000H with a USB stick.

By: wintermute

wintermute — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:13:33 +0000

Worked great. Except now I want to get rid of ubuntu and go back to just xp. Now the asus won’t boot off of the usb drive ubuntu or gparted live usb drive. Any ideas?

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:34:14 +0000

Great! I just purchased a model 901 today, but it hs only 12GB. I plan on getting a 16GB SD card. Could Ubuntu be installed there, or does the system treat that storage differently?

Thanks for the timely article.