Imaged Chromium onto a 4 gb USB key, set the boot order on a brand new Lenovo S10 to look for a USB FDD first, and voila — I am running Chromium (and blogging).
Now to try this USB trick on a certain smartbook … Video to follow later. Fairly easy process involving a .tar file, Bittorrent, an image writer and simple instructions.
Why? Why not. If the wireless drivers worked I’d consider running Chromium and Google apps forever on this PC.+
Update:
Instructions are on PC World
Follow @hexxeh on Twitter, he’s the rocket scientist who figured out how to build this native-boot image(versus virtual machine insubstantation)
The login and password are “facepunch”
I have a s10 too and I love it for blogging but was disappointed to hear that chrome os only works for ssd drives. Did you find a work around and what exactly is the difference between chromium and chrome os. Thanks for the post!
~gaia punk
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SSD? Not sure if that is the case or not, but the build I used boots off of a USB key – (4gb) so technically, yes, that would be a solid state drive.
Good instructions here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/183136/how_to_run_chrome_os_from_a_usb_drive.html
I ran it on an S10-2 and a T43 with no joy on the WiFi. I plugged the Ethernet into the T43 but when running my ExpressCard/USB drive off the ExpressCard slot, it was too laggy to be worth trying to use.