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Plotloss said:
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?
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.
That's where I got it from. Try the vmware one because the virtualbox one didn't run for me.
HereBeMonsters said:
Plotloss said:
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?
Plotloss said:
HereBeMonsters said:
Plotloss said:
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?
Plotloss said:
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?
N10k said:
crb said:
Pistonheads running on chrome OS
Why not?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.
I downloaeded it but im at work at the moment, can you give a round up of what you thought?
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.
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.
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