So last night I was able to upgrade my Walmart Black Friday HP 2000-bf69WM laptop from 4 to 8 Gig of memory. Today, I got Ubuntu installed on it so that it can dual boot between Windows 8 and Ubuntu. I followed the steps from this post to shrink the Windows 8 partition to make space for Ubuntu (shrunk by 150 Gig) and installed Ubuntu via USB key: Installing Ubuntu on a Pre-Installed Windows 8 system.