My Mother found Windows 8 very bewildering (actually, so did I) and asked me to install Ubuntu (13.10) instead on her Samsung 700 tablet/notebook. I thought I’d set it up dual boot so I could occasionally use Windows 8 for testing purposes and in case there was any sofware that we needed in the future that was Windows only.
- Power off
- Put bootable Ubuntu USB in
- Boot but hold down F2
- In the BIOS config (it was touchscreen which was quite nice):
- Advanced:
- Fast BIOS Mode: Off
- Boot:
- Secure Boot: Off
- OS Mode Selection: CSM and UEFI OS
- PXE boot: On
- Advanced:
- Save>Yes
- Reboot but hold down F2
- Boot to Device now showed: UEFI: DSE MicroDrive 2GB 1.00 (or however your USB identifies itself)
- Boot into Ubuntu installer
- Shrink Windows partition (the NTFS one)
- Add a large Ext4 partition for Ubuntu and a smaller swap partition
- Install Ubuntu onto the new Ext4 partition with / as mount point
- Reboot and set everything up. Success :-).