Finally Tested Google Chromium OS on an Acer Aspire One Netbook: Interesting, but...

I finally got around to trying Google’s Chromium OS web-browser platform during the long weekend. Since I’m too impatient to build it from source, I took a quick look around for a simple binary installation option. The simplest procedure seemed to be the one documented by Liliputing…

How to preview Google Chrome OS on a netbook

It uses hexxeh.net’s pre-compiled binary…

Chromium OS Cherry

…and these free/Open Source tools…

7-zip
Image Writer for Windows

…to unpack the file and create a bootable USB thumb flash drive (I used a 2GB thumb drive).

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