Dell Mini 10, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.04 remix

I really started loving my dell mini. Here are some notes, if you also own a dell mini and wanna run Windows 7 and/or Ubuntu on it. Since mini doesn't have an internal DVD driver, you need to either create a bootable USB thumb drive or attach an external DVD player. I will explain how to do this using a bootable USB drive.
If you want to dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu, first install Windows 7, leaving an empty partition for Ubuntu and then install Ubuntu on it.

Windows 7

I assume you have access to windows 7 iso at this time. Please follow steps in here to install. For me it worked without any problem.
After the installation it didn't pickup the graphics driver and was using generic graphics driver. If you want to get the maximum resolution, go to windows updates (click on the start button and type "windows updates" and you will see it). You will see couple of updates and one of them was intel vidoe driver. Install that update and restart and you will see proper resolution after that.
First time I downloaded the intel driver myself and installed, but for some reason I got BSOD couple of time. So its good to go through windows updates.

Ubuntu 9.04

For this you need at least 1 GB flash drive. Ubuntu has a separate distro for netbooks. This is called "remix" download it from here.
For installation isntructions, follow the guide found here.
Even after this installation, graphics driver is not good. You need to manually install it.
With this installation Wifi, webcam, sound, usb, touchpad work fine, but the graphics will be default to 800x576. If you want to get the max graphics performance (yes you need that :) ) follow the following steps to increase the resolution to 1024x576. (these steps are based on the instructions found here)

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list (for example, by running "sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list") and add these two lines to the file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Then,

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys C6598A30
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-psb
sudo apt-get install poulsbo-driver-2d poulsbo-driver-3d

Reboot. ONLY if you get errors install psb kernel source.

apt-get install psb-kernel-source

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