Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Cloud operating system for Netbook



Linux Instructions for installing Chromium OS to USB.

Extract ChromeOS-Cherry.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=ChromeOS-Cherry.img of=/dev/X bs=4M
Once the command finishes, you can then boot from the USB drive.






Create a Jolicloud USB key
  1. Open a Terminal and go to the directory where you downloaded the file: cd /the/path/to/your/directory
  2. Change the script permissions: chmod a+x jolicloud-usb-creator-1.2.0.sh
  3. Run the program (at this stage you will be asked to enter your administrator password): ./jolicloud-usb-creator-1.2.0.sh
  4. Connect your USB key to your computer.
  5. In the Jolicloud USB Creator window, click <em>Browse</em> to find and select the <em>jolicloud-robby-alpha2c-live.iso</em> in your system.
  6. Select your target device: The USB key you have inserted should be automatically detected.
  7. Click <em>Create</em> to create your Jolicloud USB.