Showing posts with label Google Chromebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Chromebook. Show all posts

Saturday, February 19, 2022

Chrome OS Flex - Refresh your old laptop - first attempt

Chrome OS Flex installation guide

https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11541904?hl=en&ref_topic=11551271

 

  1. Install the Chromebook Recovery Utility on your Google Chrome Browser
  2. To run your Chromebook Recovery Utility successfully, you need to use administrator right to login your machine, runas administrator on your Google Chrome browser (Right click "Runas administrator" on the Google Chrome icon on your desktop shortcut)
  3. Follow the installation guide to create the bootable usb thumb drive.

 

 

  1. Select "Google Chrome OS Flex"

 

 

 

Note: Already a 8GB USB flash drive able to pass the checking, but you will failed to complete the creation. You need a 16GB USB flash drive

 

 

 

Start the installation:

    1. The first screen when you boot into your usb thumb drive

 

    1. Click Get Started

    1. Click "Install CloudReady 2.0"

 

  1. Install CloudReady 2.0

  1. Install (It will erase your hard drive)

  1. It start to install

 

  1. It will count down to shutdown your machine after the installation completed.

  1. Power on your machine and you will see the welcome screen again

  1. Connect to your wifi

 

 

After that my machine keep reboot……

 

I test to install it on IBM x61, Lenovo x200. Both of them cannot start the installation process.

 

After that I able to install it on Acer V5-571G but it keep auto reboot after the installation completion.

 

 

Remark: Chrome OS Flex is currently released for early access testing and is not suitable for production use. CloudReady is available for immediate stable deployment. Google will automatically update CloudReady devices to Chrome OS Flex, when Chrome OS Flex is stable. 

 

Reference:

舊電腦變 ChromeBook! Google 發表 Chrome OS Flex - PCM (pcmarket.com.hk)

 

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Monday, July 1, 2019

The wall street Journal stock price display running on Google Chromebook

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Sunday, May 19, 2019

Using Google Chromebook to display “The Wall Street Journal”

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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

CloudReady based on Google Chromium OS and also free for home use

One of the requirement to running CloudReady is your machine support UEFI boot, since the IBM X61 did not support UEFI boot, so I install Lubuntu on it.

For the CloudReady, I use the Lenovo X200 which is able to install the CloudReady.

 

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Logon Screen

 

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It will prompt up a Google Chrome Browser after the login (Of course, all you have on this OS is the browser and also the webapps)

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Some function key at the bottom right hand corner. (e.g. logoff, reboot, connect to wifi.....)

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There are notification area for you to read notification.

 

It is good for you to refresh your old machine and also taste the Google Chromium or Google Chromebook

 

Download:

https://www.neverware.com/freedownload/

 

Reference:

https://www.neverware.com/#introtext-3

http://www.pcdiy.com.tw/detail/2739

http://www.techbang.com/posts/45957-the-transformation-of-the-old-computer-chromebook-rebirth-chromebook-installation-articles-to-create-the-usb-boot-disk

https://www.newmobilelife.com/2016/03/14/cloudready-install/

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