Google Chrome Chromium OS Download/Installation
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Note: Builds available here are
NOT compiled nor supported by Google, while they are working on "awesoming"
the product for next year what you see here is our (developers) own binary builds
of their opened Chromuim OS source code
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VMWare or VirtualBox installation:
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1 - Download the 2 files from these links then extract the compressed
.vmdk file with WinRAR
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http://rapidshare.com/files/309689581/chrome-os.part1.rar
(204,472 KB)
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http://rapidshare.com/files/309665992/chrome-os.part2.rar
(67,700 KB)
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2 - Follow the instructions on the following link to install the .vmdk file using
VirtualBox or VMWare Player
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/guide-install-google-chrome-os/
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USB-Bootable Installation:
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1 - Download the 2 files from these links then extract the compressed
.ima file with WinRAR
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http://rapidshare.com/files/311044189/chrome-os-ima.part01.rar (204,472
KB)
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http://rapidshare.com/files/311055457/chrome-os-ima.part02.rar (69,483 KB)
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2 - Using WinImage (Or any other image burning software) select "Disk" > "Restore
Virtual hard Disk Image on physical drive..." then select the extracted .ima file
to be burned on your USB flash device as a bootable OS, ensure you USB flash device
is large enough to fit the OS (arround 4GB of size)
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3 - Alter your PC/Laptop boot options to look for the USB device first, this will
detect any bootable OS's on the USB device, otherwise it will continue booting normally
from your hard drive.
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4 - To successfully login using your Gmail account you need to have a DHCP-enabled
network cable physically connected to your machine to be able to connect to the
Internet and process your login, once you are in, you can enable a wireless network
to be used, however, no authentication inside Chromium OS is currently supported,
so in other words you have to have your wireless connection open with no authentication,
not really a good choice.
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UPDATE (November 25th) USB-Bootable
Installation for the Dell Mini 10v Chromium OS Image:
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For some reason, the Chromium OS image for the Dell Mini 10v build is insanely large,
it took me few days to download it of the Dell's very slow servers, the Dell guys
claims this image supports Wi-Fi access. I tried it on a USB device it does work
fine with the regular network cable connected to my Lenovo laptop.
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1 - Download the 5 files from these links then extract the compressed
.img file with WinRAR
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http://rapidshare.com/files/313834420/ChromiumOS_Mini10v_Nov25.part01.rar
(204,472 KB)
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http://rapidshare.com/files/313862231/ChromiumOS_Mini10v_Nov25.part02.rar
(204,472 KB)
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http://rapidshare.com/files/313892072/ChromiumOS_Mini10v_Nov25.part03.rar
(204,472 KB)
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http://rapidshare.com/files/313919508/ChromiumOS_Mini10v_Nov25.part04.rar
(204,472 KB)
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http://rapidshare.com/files/313928888/ChromiumOS_Mini10v_Nov25.part05.rar
(66,977 KB)
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2 - Follow the same installation steps for USB-Bootable or VMWare/VirtualBox above,
since the OS files here are larger you need to have a bigger USB flash device if
you are installing as USB-Bootable (around 8GB of size).
Let us know if you manage to connect through a Wireless connection using this build.
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UPDATE (December 1st) USB-Bootable
Installation for the Dell Mini 10v Chromium OS Image:
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Another fresh size-optimized release of the Chromium OS image for the Dell Mini
10v build.
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1 - Download the 2 files from these links then extract the compressed
.img file with WinRAR
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http://rapidshare.com/files/319158641/ChromiumOS_Mini10v_Nov30.part01.rar
(204,472 KB)
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http://rapidshare.com/files/319167051/ChromiumOS_Mini10v_Nov30.part02.rar
(55,274 KB)
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2 - Follow installation instructions in this text file
http://linux.dell.com/files/cto/README.txt
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