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Google Chrome OS USB version

Het Google Chrome OS is een opensourcebesturingssysteem in ontwikkeling door Google. Het is gebaseerd op de webbrowser Google Chrome en de Linuxkernel. Het is aanvankelijk gericht op netbooks.


Hoewel Google zelf geen bèta heeft vrijgegeven van Chrome OS, is de broncode inmiddels wel beschikbaar - en daarmee zijn op internet veel mensen al driftig aan het knutselen geslagen.

Chromium OS Builds by Hexxeh

This image can be copied to a USB drive from both Windows and Linux. 
Instructions are as follows. You will need a 4GB pendrive or memory card 
to use this. Disk requirements may be reduced in future versions.

Linux Instructions for installing Chromium OS to USB:
Extract chromiumos.img and run the following command in the same 
directory as the file, where X is the device name of your USB drive.

sudo dd if=chromiumos.img of=/dev/X bs=4M

Once the command finishes, you can then boot from the USB drive.

Windows Instructions for installing Chromium OS to USB:
Use image Writer for Windows (bij-in-begrepen)
Launch the program, and select the image (chromiumos.img) and your USB drive letter from the drop down box. 
Click "Write". The install image will then be copied to the drive. Once it's done, close the program and you can then boot from the USB drive.

Mac Instructions for installing Chromium OS to USB:

Firstly, unmount the drive you want to install Chromium OS to.
Place the downloaded file onto your desktop. Open System Profiler, click USB 
on the list at the side and then select the entry that represents your 
USB disk. Now look for the BSD Name column (hatetepe://bit.ly/5mG4WK). 
Remember what is written here. In my case, it is disk1, but in yours 
it may be different. Take care here as if you get it wrong, it could 
seriously mess things up. Once you have this, open up Terminal and 
type the following commands.

cd Desktop
tar -zxvf chromiumos.tar.gz
cd chromiumos

For the next command, replace X with the name of the disk you found earlier, ie disk1.

sudo dd if=chromiumos.img of=/dev/X bs=4M

This command will ask you to enter your password (the same one you enter when installing
software for example), type it in and press enter. This command will take a while to run, 
about 20 minutes for me, and then will give you your shell prompt back once it has finished. 
Once it has, you can remove your USB drive and boot from it (but not on your Mac because 
I'll tell you now that won't work, yes I tried it)

Enjoy your Chromium OS!

Troubleshooting:

Q: It says "Resource Busy"! What's up?
A: You forgot to dismount the drive. Do this, then retype the command and you should be fine.

Important Info:
Default username is facepunch, default shared password is facepunch.

If you like this, tweet me @Hexxeh and say hi. :)