Ah, I was going to give my old Acer Aspire a go! Not really a good machine.
The other machine I could try it on is my Lenovo ideapad s205 with 8gb of ram. I use that for odds and sods and for holidays.
Used my Acer Aspire to dual boot.
Lenovo ideapad is likely a no-no, due to the sneaky, root-kit, bios based crap ware they have on-board.
TOP TIP
Make an external disc image of your system using Macrium Reflect.
I had to restore the machine back to original at least 6 times before I hit the jackpot.
If you have a UEFI/Secure Boot BIOS then add all the new partitions as PRIMARY.
Turn off Secure Boot and keep UEFI on. Install as UEFI.
Disable hibernation in Windows.
Point the installation bootloader at the linux root partition you are installing (/) and flag it as bootable. You should be good to go.
It took me a week of sifting through all the bad info / editing errors on the internet before I discovered the correct combination.
Edited by TYREDNGRUMPEE, 05 October 2015 - 10:50 am.