Some bright spark has compiled the code for Chrome OS and got the drivers et al together and working on a Dell Mini 10V.
If you have a Dell Mini 10v and would like to see the first version of Chrome OS running on your machine, you can download the USB image, from Dell.
Instructions
To copy onto an (8GB minimum) USB key, find another linux machine and utilize the “dd” command to put the image onto the USB key.
Example:
dd if=ChromiumOS_Mini10v_Nov25.img of=/dev/sdb
In this example, /dev/sdb is my entire USB key… use “fdisk –l” to see how your USB key is named for your particular environment. Be careful to select your USB device (again, use fdisk –l to double verify and confirm the correct device filename) and not another device…Some additional notes for the released image:
The user name to login is “dell”.The desktop login window will complete the user name by adding “@gmail.com” to the end The user password is “dell” The root password is set to “dell” I’ve included a script in /etc called “mount_rw.sh” to allow root
(or sudo) to remount the root partition for updates/changes/whatever
you like.Here are the caveats:
It will take more than 5-10 *minutes* for the ChromiumOS network connection manager to “see” the access points and allow you to select and connect – be patient.Wired connections appear to work fine and appear quick to connect.
There are currently issues with both the connection manager as well as the underlying components (wpa_supplicant) that can easily break or get hung. When in doubt, reboot and give it another try.
Use this image at your own risk – it comes to you totally unsupported and very minimally tested.
From Cromium OS Dev Google Groups
I don’t have access to a Dell Mini to test this out myself… if you do and you manage to get this running, please let me know how you get on in the comments here!
