Chrome OS on EeePC

Pistooli — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:21:54 +0000

I came across some sites, which offer daily builds of Google’s Chrome OS (Chromium to be precise, as the open source, community builds)

Chrome OS builds by Hexxeh

The Chrome Daily

After downloading the chromium.img file, it is easy to put on a usb stick (under OSX)

1. open Terminal

2. diskutil list (gives ID for your usb disk - e.g., X)

3. diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX

4. sudo dd if=/path_to_your_image/chromium.img of=/dev/diskX (this takes awhile)

5. diskutil eject /dev/diskX

Ready to put the freshly created, bootable Chrome OS usb disk into the EeePC!

The EeePC 900 boots fine the Chrome OS build, even the wifi is working, hurray!

Chrome OS Login

Chrome OS

Nice looking, functional, beta…

Check out the Chromium development channel at Google Groups.

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