Can I install alongside Windows?

[Archer]

Hello,
I have an ASUS 1025C netbook (has Cedar Trail processor) and I would like to try ubermix (0.915 CT version).  At the moment I have the netbook configured with a dual boot - so I can boot Windows or ubuntu. 
Since the standard ubuntu installation does not yet support Cedar Trail,  I have been trying to find a distribution that works correctly on my netbook.  I found ubermix when searching for solutions.

However, I see that for simplicity of installation - there is no option to install to a particular partition etc.  like you get with a standard ubuntu install.  I am by no means an expert with this - is it possible to perform the installation to a particular partition and have a grub menu to select windows / ubermix at startup ?

If not, is there a way to get an ubuntu that has the Cedar Trail fixes that Ubermix has ?
Thanks in advance for any help.

[Cytochromec]

Hi. I have gotten a computer to dual boot Ubermix and 2 others flavors of Ubuntu. I installed Ubermix first and then installed Ubuntu and had the installer create a new partition. The GRUB menu had the Ubermix and new Ubuntu options. I then repeated that with a second Ubuntu version and that was added as well. So it will probably work for Windows as long as you first install Ubermix and then partition for other OS's.

[jnetman1]

We have a bunch of netbooks in a cart that is set aside for staff development setup to dual-boot. It's technically doable, but pretty complex to setup - and I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. ubermix uses three partitions alone, and Windows 7 wants another 2 at least, which makes it tricky to get going.

An easier solution is to run either ubermix (less preferable) or Windows (preferable) as a virtual machine using Virtualbox. That way you can choose your preferred operating system (hopefully ubermix) and run the other when you have the need.

If you decide to run ubermix as a virtual machine, install it in Virtualbox using the CD Install instructions at http://wiki.ubermix.org/page/CD_Install

[Archer]

Thank you both for your replies,
The problem is Windows came on the netbook pre-installed - and I don't want to lose it.

The disk already had 4 primary partitions (max), so I had to delete one (a simple ASUS OS that I wouldn't use) and then resize the windows 'D' drive and make that an extended partition, so I could then add logical partitions.  I have Ubuntu installed in these logical partitions (/ and linux swap)

I suppose I could try running ubermix in a virtual machine to try it, but I really want to make use of the hardware specific Cedar Trail support in the 0.915 CT version.

I have found on the Ubuntu forum instructions for building a 3.3.2 kernel with graphics (GMA 3600) support for Cedar Trail - which I have followed and it works, but there are a number of issues which all seem to have been fixed in ubermix change log - so I would really like to have ubermix instead of ubuntu !

The problem is how do I install it without losing Windows ?.. 

[jnetman1]

OK, so boot into Ubuntu and open a terminal, then do a sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda and post your output. I'll follow up with instructions.

[Archer]

Hi Jnetman1,
sorry for the delay, here is the fdisk -l output:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa8d6f410

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048   209717247   104857600    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2       209717248   241174527    15728640   1b  Hidden W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3       241174528   436487027    97656250    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       436488190   625139711    94325761    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       623011840   625139711     1063936   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6       436488192   623009791    93260800   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

As you can see, sda4 is the extended partition, which contains sda6 and sda5 in that order.

[Archer]

Hi
I have provided the info - can you follow up with the instructions please
Thank you.

[tim]

Hello.

I have the same situation. Windows 7 starter and I want to install ubermix on the same machine.
If I only have the time, I'll make a copy of 320 GB hdd with "dd"-command. Then I'll try it with different ways until I get it right. If it goes wrong, I can allways copy the original content back with "dd"-command. (I would like keep the windows 7 starter recover partitions etc.)
For saving time, it would be nice if somebody had tried this allready and knew how to do it?