Does anyone know how to dual Googleos and Ubuntu Eee on an asus Eee pc 1000 without keeping an external usb flash drive connected to it? In other words , I would like to dual boot gos and ubuntu Eee off of the ssd drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You just need to configure whatever bootloader you are using (probably GRUB) for both operating systems. You don't need to boot to any external devices.

What does your GRUB configuration look like now?

I am a semi-newbie. How can I find out what my GRUB config looks like? After I find out what my GRUB config looks like, can anyone help me step by step on how to dual boot gos and Eee Ubuntu on a Asus Eee pc 1000? Teaching me how to do this would be greatly appreciated.

The grub configuration file referred to is menu.lst and should be in the directory /boot/grub/. What do you have currently installed? If you have one or more OS's they should be listed in the menu.lst file. Post the output of that file and the output of 'fdisk -l' command. This needs to be done as root user.

I have not received the Eee pc from newegg yet, but when I do receive it I intend to install ubuntu Eee on it. After I do that I will post the info that is in the menu.lst file and the output of the fdisk -l command.

If anyone has any other suggestions of what I should do it would be greatly appreciated. Maybe for example how I should format Eee ubuntu when I install it or does it just take up the space that the former os took up?

I believe the default install with Ubuntu will be to take up the whole disk with at least one partition for root and a swap partitiion. There should be an option for 'manual' or 'expert' and if you choose that you can make changes to suit your personal needs. I would suggest that if you have not installed Ubuntu before, you do a search for 'ubuntu installation'. I've seen sites that have step by step instructions including showing each screen you will see in a graphical installation. That should help.

I have a eeePC 900 and installed gOs which I think is what you are referring to as GoogleOS. The G does not stand for Google, but Good.

My eeePC triple boots. I kept Xandros on the smaller 8 GB partition and installed Windows XP on the 12 GB partition. I installed gOS to a SD card. Instructions for installing new OSes can be found at wiki.eeeuser.com. Problems that you are likely to encounter are overwriting the boot sector for the eeepc and thereby preventing Xandros from booting. You can download a copy of eeepc.bin here: http://www.3eportal.com/downloads/. This will allow you to re-write for booot sector back to its factory setting (just in case).

You can avoid boot sector problems by writing grub to the partition or card instead of the master boot sector. I am not sure if I can remember how I did this for gOS, but in Ubuntu it is done on the last stage before installation where the changes are reviewed. Just click on the Advanced button at the bottom and choose the device where gOS or Ubuntu is installed (not sda or sdb unless that is where you installed it).

You will need to do two extra things. You will have to press Esc on boot up to get into the boot menu and you will have to edit grub (menu.lst) so that it points to (hd0,0) instead of what it says. You can do that temporarily by pressing e to edit on that line, making the changes and then pressing enter and b plus enter again to boot. So that you don't have to do this every time edit grub with sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst.

I intend to give swap 2GB and / (system files 10GB). For /home it will be 8GB. This would be on the 40GB SSD for Ubuntu Eee and for gos it would be around the same amount. I do not intend to keep Xandros on the pc. I will follow the following guides:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro
http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfec...ts-hardy-heron

For the macbook pro guide obviously the option for bootcamp and the /dev/sda3 is out, along with the disc options.

How is Xandros formatted on the SSD and the 8GB portion of the pc? What is the best label for the partitions on the SSD? Any suggestions about the sizes I supplied and about anything else would be very helpful.

I am just going to use Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 on the entire ssd. Does anyone know the best way to install it on an Asus Eee pc 1000? Specifically I would like to know the best way to partition the ssd manually or if using guided formatting on the 32.2GB ssd is the best way. Also I would like to know if it is secure if I format it this way. I have been trying to activate root from the terminal but it does not work. I know ubuntu uses sudo to protect the root account. What I want is to just access the root account from the terminal from time to time to install some apps that require root privileges. If I format it with one account does that mean that that one account has administrative privileges also? Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated. Also does anyone know of a good program to activate the camera on the Eee pc? When I use say cheese the camera does not seem to work.