12.10 Installation on Sony Vaio T15?

[csete]

I picked up a new Sony Vaio T15 (model SVT15115CXS) today at Best Buy. The hardware and design are nice and the price was good for the included features. With a bit of poking around, I was able to boot into the Ubuntu installation CD and things seemed to work pretty well. The only thing I noticed was that screen brightness controls didn't seem to work.

This is a UEFI Windows 8 laptop. Am I going to be able to get Ubuntu installed on this machine? Does anyone have insights into how this would be done? I've read that secure OS signing is causing headaches and I'm afraid to start doing any installation if it isn't going to end up working out. In addition, this has a hybrid HD+SSD device. Is there any good information on how to partition a system like this for use with dual-boot?

Any information would be most helpful. I'd like to figure out soon if I should return this laptop if it isn't going to be suitable for a Linux/Windows dual-boot installation.

Thanks,
Craig

[ahallubuntu]

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[csete]

Thanks for the response. I have validated that it is possible to disable secure boot on this machine. Can I assume that Windows 8 is no less secure without secure boot than Windows 7 would have been without secure boot?

Does anyone have pointers to documentation on best partitioning of a hybrid SSD/HDD disk?

Thanks,
Craig

[csete]

NOTE: This is the current partition layout.



GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: ATA WDC WD10JPVT-55A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 274MB 273MB fat32 EFI system partition hidden
2 274MB 1819MB 1546MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag
3 1819MB 2092MB 273MB fat32 EFI system partition boot
4 2092MB 2226MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
5 2226MB 968GB 966GB ntfs Basic data partition
6 968GB 1000GB 32.3GB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag

(parted)

Using /dev/sdb
(parted) print
Model: ATA AXM13S2-24GM-B (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 24.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
2 1049kB 8608MB 8607MB hidden
1 8609MB 24.0GB 15.4GB HFS

(parted)

[ahallubuntu]

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