I'm afraid we're not helping much so far. Here's a little more about special linux variants for the Eee PC: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articl…

Also I searched “dual boot” (with quotes) on the eeeuser.com wiki and in the forum search engine and among other things ran across this article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2319615,00… which seems extremely complicated. I know I've seen easier procedures in the past.

The Ubuntu “wubi” installation (http://wubi-installer.org/) I used on the other laptop was extremely easy and does not require a hard drive partition, although, if I remember correctly, it had easy instructions for turning the wubi install into a disc partition setup. Also, I think this is usually very easy with disc partitioning software, some of which is free.

I don't think wubi works with eeebuntu yet, but, if not, it probably will soon. When the spirit moves me to try these things again I'll post about it in the Liliputing forums.

I'm afraid we're not helping much so far. Here's a little more about special linux variants for the Eee PC: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articl…

Also I searched “dual boot” (with quotes) on the eeeuser.com wiki and in the forum search engine and among other things ran across this article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2319615,00… which seems extremely complicated. I know I've seen easier procedures in the past.

The Ubuntu “wubi” installation (http://wubi-installer.org/) I used on the other laptop was extremely easy and does not require a hard drive partition, although, if I remember correctly, it had easy instructions for turning the wubi install into a disc partition setup. Also, I think this is usually very easy with disc partitioning software, some of which is free.

I don't think wubi works with eeebuntu yet, but, if not, it probably will soon. When the spirit moves me to try these things again I'll post about it in the Liliputing forums.

Actually I've got a copy of the book on order myself (Buy.com, $14.84). I'm not trying to pose as expert. I've read a little about Linux and played with wubi and live installations a couple of hours but have very little hands-on experience. (I hit a stumbling block when my wireless adapter wouldn't work and I was supposed to cut something out of a tarball or some such

I also bought a 1000HE a couple of months ago and ordered a 900A refurb a couple of days ago. I had spent some time on the eeeuser.com forums a year or so ago, but switched mainly to Brad's eeesite and Liliputing when all the other brands came out. Eeeuser.com seems intimidating with its 10s of thousands of topics and 100s of thousands of posts, outdated wiki, often neglected blog, etc, but I went back there last week with some questions about the purchase of my 900A and everybody was very friendly and helpful. I think we can also get help with these things in the Liliputing forums.

The last version of EEEBuntu Base that I investigated included Mono libraries but NO applications that used Mono.

All of this is utterly stupid.

Just install Kubuntu Jaunty instead. Full desktop functionality, one re-sizeable panel, no wasted disk space (important for systems with SSDs), works out of the box on netbooks, runs much faster, and is more mainstream than any remix distributions.

But soon Moblin and Jolicloud may far outclass it. And the two panels rock. People think their own personal tastes are Vulcan logic — sheesh.

Spend some time on Distrowatch.com and Eeeuser.com. Investigate the big name distros and the obscure cool ones like Slitaz. Distros are like religions. I don't care for KDE-based distros like Kubuntu, for example, while the next guy likes it.

Experiment, perhaps by installing the distros on outboard USB drives that you can wipe and re-do without affecting your internal OS. On the Eee you can choose the boot source with each boot, without messing with the BIOS setup.