Install Google Chrome OS on USB Drive with Chrome OS Diet USB version

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In past we had reported about Google Chrome OS. Basically Google Chrome OS is based on Chromium project which open source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web.

First working prototype of Google Chrome OS was demonstrated sometime back at Chrome event and the download links of compiled Chrome OS are already published on many websites.
If you have time & free space on your hard drive then you can download chrome OS and install on your machine but if you don’t want to install then USB version of Google Chrome OS might be helpful to you.

Guy over at carbon.hexxeh.net has build the image of Google Chrome OS named as Chrome OS Diet USB version. Which lets you to install Google Chrome OS on USB flash drive (requires only 1 GB) and boot your computer in Google Chrome OS using that USB drive.

Download Google Chrome OS for USB Drive
Chrome OS Diet USB Version

http://bit.ly/8BufT4

Chrome OS Diet USB Version for (Alternate Link)

http://bit.ly/5BDCy3

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LINK

http://carbon.hexxeh.net/chromiumos/

DOWNLOAD:

http://rs638tl2.rapidshare.com/files/314498736/ChromeOSdiet.part01.rar
http://rs494l32.rapidshare.com/files/314500695/ChromeOSdiet.part02.rar
http://rs515tl.rapidshare.com/files/314501760/ChromeOSdiet.part03.rar

Windows Instructions for installing Chromium OS to USB.

Download Image Writer for Windows  and extract the program. Launch the program, and select the image (chromiumos.img) and your USB drive letter from the drop down box. Click "Write". The install image will then be copied to the drive. Once it's done, close the program and you can then boot from the USB drive.

Mac Instructions for installing Chromium OS to USB.

Firstly, unmount the drive you want to install Chromium OS to. Place the downloaded file onto your desktop. Open System Profiler, click USB on the list at the side and then select the entry that represents your USB disk. Now look for the BSD Name column. Remember what is written here. In my case, it is disk1, but in yours it may be different. Take care here as if you get it wrong, it could seriously mess things up. Once you have this, open up Terminal and type the following commands.

cd Desktop
tar -zxvf chromiumos.tar.gz
cd chromiumos

For the next command, replace X with the name of the disk you found earlier, ie disk1.

sudo dd if=chromiumos.img of=/dev/X bs=4m

This command will ask you to enter your password (the same one you enter when installing software for example), type it in and press enter. This command will take a while to run, about 20 minutes for me, and then will give you your shell prompt back once it has finished. Once it has, you can remove your USB drive and boot from it (but not on your Mac because I'll tell you now that won't work, yes I tried it)

Troubleshooting:

Q: It says "Resource Busy"! What's up?
A: You forgot to dismount the drive. Do this, then retype the command and you should be fine.

Linux Instructions for installing Chromium OS to USB.

Extract chromiumos.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=chromiumos.img of=/dev/X bs=4M

Once the command finishes, you can then boot from the USB drive.

Enjoy your Chromium OS!