If you are able to boot from the USB drive, you will see a bright white screen with the Cloudready logo. Make sure you have enabled the necessary requirements in the BIOS to be able to boot from a USB.
Now that you have a bootable Chrome OS USB drive, shut down your PC, insert the USB drive and boot your PC with the USB drive. This process can take a while even if you have relatively good internet speeds.
Immediately after the download is complete, it will start to install it on your drive. The installer will now start downloading Cloudready. Select your USB drive and click Next again.If you haven’t inserted a USB drive yet you won’t be able to click Next here. Click Next when you’ve selected the right architecture and then click Next again on the next page.The only problem would be that your system won’t be able to use more than 4GB of RAM. Even if you install a 32-bit version on 64-bit hardware, technically it should work. If you really have a PC that came with Windows XP, chances are it is based on the 32-bit architecture. Select the CPU architecture of your PC.As will be mentioned on the first page of the USB maker, you will need at least an 8GB or 16GB USB drive to install Cloudready on it.You can also refer to my dedicated guide on running Chrome OS from a USB drive. Keep in mind that the USB maker will first download the entire OS and then write it to the USB disk. Once downloaded, insert your USB drive and run the USB maker. Scroll down and click on DOWNLOAD USB MAKER. All you have to do is head over to the official website and navigate to the Cloudready Home Edition page. Neverware though has now made it as simple as it possibly could be. Instead of running a full-on operating system like Windows, the old hardware only has to run a browser.Ĭreating the installer used to be a simple process as it was. Older PCs, especially those from the time of Windows XP can get a new life with a light-weight browser-based OS such as Chromium OS.
For me, something being free is reason enough to get it but here’s why you should consider it too. For home users, Cloudready is completely free. Neverware sells Cloudready to businesses and schools that want to run Chrome OS on existing hardware. One of the best ways to install Chrome OS or Chromium OS on a laptop is Cloudready.Ĭloudready is basically Chromium OS with a few additional management features and mainstream hardware support. That means anyone interested will have to rely on unofficial Chromium OS builds, also not by Google. Now, we know Google does not release an official Chrome OS build for other devices. Just don’t expect any AAA titles to run on your machine. You can still watch videos, play music, browse the web, edit pictures, and game a bit. You won’t be able to do everything that you could on a Windows machine but at least your computer can do most other things. Being based around and on just the Chrome browser, it is light-weight compared to Windows. Refer to the following message from Ubuntu's mailing list if you want to learn more.Do you have an old computer that can barely keep up with Windows? If you o, you can breathe a new life into it if you install Chrome OS.
Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes.Īll these warnings are safe to ignore, and your drive should be able to boot without any problems. Try making a fresh table, and using Parted's rescue feature to recover partitions. Is this a GPT partition table? Both the primary and backup GPT tables are corrupt. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table. Perhaps it was corrupted - possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT partition tables. However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should. dev/xxx contains GPT signatures, indicating that it has a GPT table. Ubuntu images (and potentially some other related GNU/Linux distributions) have a peculiar format that allows the image to boot without any further modification from both CDs and USB drives.Ī consequence of this enhancement is that some programs, like parted get confused about the drive's format and partition table, printing warnings such as: