Chrome OS

[HereBeMonsters]

Plotloss said:

vmx torrent is on iso :cough: hunt :cough:

Or

www.getchrome.eu

Sweet, many thanks.

It keeps saying it's a "virtual appliance". Does that mean I can't just boot the .iso and install? I have to run it as a virtual machine on a linux desktop?

[Frankeh]

http://discuss.gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/general/D...


That's where I got it from. Try the vmware one because the virtualbox one didn't run for me.

[Plotloss]

HereBeMonsters said:

Plotloss said:

vmx torrent is on iso :cough: hunt :cough:

Or

www.getchrome.eu

Sweet, many thanks.

It keeps saying it's a "virtual appliance". Does that mean I can't just boot the .iso and install? I have to run it as a virtual machine on a linux desktop?

On the getchrome.eu you can download either the vmx to play in vmware player or the iso to run off a livecd

[HereBeMonsters]

Plotloss said:

HereBeMonsters said:

Plotloss said:

vmx torrent is on iso :cough: hunt :cough:

Or

www.getchrome.eu

Sweet, many thanks.

It keeps saying it's a "virtual appliance". Does that mean I can't just boot the .iso and install? I have to run it as a virtual machine on a linux desktop?

On the getchrome.eu you can download either the vmx to play in vmware player or the iso to run off a livecd

So the .iso I just downloaded (gotta love the speed of torrenting!) is just a LiveCD?

[P924]

500 MB ??!?!!?!!?!?!?! For a bloody browser? jeez

[Frankeh]

P924 said:

500 MB ??!?!!?!!?!?!?! For a bloody browser? jeez

It's an OS with a browser frontend.

[MarkRSi]

Plotloss said:

vmx torrent is on iso :cough: hunt :cough:

Or

www.getchrome.eu

Thanks for that. I was about to try build it myself

http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromiu...

Anyone actually done this yet?

[arej]

N10k said:

crb said:

Pistonheads running on chrome OS

Yes I did cheat, it's actually running in a VM, It's not ready for real use yet, and from what I've seen I'm not sure I'll ever be using it.

Why not?
I downloaeded it but im at work at the moment, can you give a round up of what you thought?

crb: Could you tell me where you downloaded your VM version of Chrome OS? I got the one from getchrome and it looks completely different - basically GNOME with a bit of a bias towards using Google Chrome rather than a Chrome OS.

[crb]

I got everything I needed via this post on techcrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/guide-install... but the actual image came from here http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/

I did set up a throwaway gmail account to test it out, just in-case the source had been hacked to intercept passwords but I don't think that's really that likely.

[HereBeMonsters]

The version I got (from the torrent) looks like SuSE with a Chrome browser on the desktop, that doesn't even launch.
It has YaST.

[arej]

HereBeMonsters said:

The version I got (from the torrent) looks like SuSE with a Chrome browser on the desktop, that doesn't even launch.
It has YaST.

Yea the one I have has YaST and said something about built with SuSE when first starting.