This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to dual boot your Asus Eee PC with Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux.
Note: This tutorial is specific to the Asus Eee PC 900 with the 16GB flash SSD hard drive. The other versions (found here) - with different hard drive configurations, are not covered by this tutorial.
- The easiest way to dual-boot your Eee PC is to install Windows XP first. If yours came w/ XP installed by default, great. If not, this guide has you covered (it’s pretty straight forward).
- With Windows installed, follow the instructions outlined in this tutorial, up to step #16. When you hit step #17, return to this tutorial.
- At this point you will have started the Ubuntu install, and have just set your keyboard layout. On the Prepare disk space screen, make sure that Guided is selected. In the New partition size area, you should see two distinct partitions. One for Windows, and one for Ubuntu. Click the small space between the two, hold down the mouse button, and drag to the right. This will resize the two partitions.
- When you’ve decided how much space you want to allocate to each Operating System, click Forward. The screen shot below illustrates a 50/50 split between Windows and Ubuntu.
- Review the partition resize window and click Continue.
- Go grab yourself a cup of coffee.
- When the partitioning has completed, you’ll be presented with the “rest” of the Ubuntu installation wizard. Enter the required info in the spaces provided, and click Forward.
- If you’d like, you can import your Windows account(s). If you’d rather not, just leave the box(es) unchecked and click Forward.
- Finally, click Install.
- Now would be a good time to refill that cup of coffee. Once the installation has completed, you’ll be prompted to reboot your Eee PC.
- When your Eee PC starts this time, you’ll be prompted to select which Operating System you want to use - Ubuntu or Windows.
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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.
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?
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.
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.
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
Will these instructions work on a EEE 1000HA? Thanks!
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