Ubuntu installation

[solwatts]

Hello,
I've been a happy CR-48 user since december of 2010; but I believe
it's finally time for me to give up the goose. Chrome OS just doesn't
work for me. It's just not right to call a browser an entire OS, even
if the majority of the things are stored in the cloud.

Anyway, I've found the Post from Google on how to install Ubuntu on a
CR-48, but I'm honestly scared to do it. I'm afraid I'll mess
something up, and I don't think Google will replace a CR-48 (although
that'd be awesome). Is there a simple VIDEO tutorial on how to do
this? One that has been proven to work?

Also, it'd be nice if I could install it using a flash drive (Chrome
OS doesn't support Static IPs), but it's not necessary.

[TomTasche]

There you go: http://blog.tomtasche.at/2012/02/developing-on-chromebook-part-4-back-to.html

No video, but it's still pretty straight-forward.

[Don Garrett]

And if the install does go badly, you should be able to get back to ChromeOS with a recovery image on USB. If the recovery doesn't work, I'd really like to hear about it.

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[Richard Barnette]

(re-send from the right address).

On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Don Garrett wrote:

> And if the install does go badly, you should be able to get back to ChromeOS with a recovery image on USB. If the recovery doesn't work, I'd really like to hear about it.
>

+1 to that. The instructions for recovery are here:
http://www.google.com/chromeos/recovery

No amount of software installation/fiddling with your Cr-48
should be able to make the recovery procedure fail. The
intent is that nothing you can do short of attacking the unit
with a hammer (or a soldering iron) :-) should be able to
cause a failure. If you can make recovery fail on otherwise
working hardware, that's a bug the Chromium OS team wants
to hear about.

-- jrb