New ask Hacker News story: Successfully Installed Chrome OS Flex on CN60 Chromebox
Successfully Installed Chrome OS Flex on CN60 Chromebox
2 by smallette | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I tried to duplicate what "notyourday" described in this thread (5 months ago, see https://ift.tt/3M4pVey ) and was able to successfully install Chrome OS Flex on an ASUS Chromebox CN60. His instructions were pretty much spot on but I do have a few comments: 1. Suggest creating boot USB first. It takes a while and you can be doing other things while that is going on. 2. Had trouble getting Ctrl D to work on my keyboard. Finally figured out I need to use a different (wired) keyboard. 3. Had trouble figuring out "-LO" in the the series of inputs while in text mode of Linux. To be clear the "O" is a capital "oh", not a zero as I had initially surmised. Always have trouble with that. And you can use the enter key between the three commands even though the instructions in MrChromebox.Tech say to only hit enter after third line is typed in. 3. I had to stop what I was doing overnight and reboot the next day and it seemed to me that the second time around the Ctrl D didn't work (even with the wired keyboard) but then it went into recovery mode anyway. 4. Some of the screens that came up were slightly different than what was described but I was able to figure it out. 5. The Chromebox works great now but the process is made a bit difficult because Google write protects these boxes and doesn't allow it's original firmware to boot from USB. So the hard part here is getting around all that.
2 by smallette | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I tried to duplicate what "notyourday" described in this thread (5 months ago, see https://ift.tt/3M4pVey ) and was able to successfully install Chrome OS Flex on an ASUS Chromebox CN60. His instructions were pretty much spot on but I do have a few comments: 1. Suggest creating boot USB first. It takes a while and you can be doing other things while that is going on. 2. Had trouble getting Ctrl D to work on my keyboard. Finally figured out I need to use a different (wired) keyboard. 3. Had trouble figuring out "-LO" in the the series of inputs while in text mode of Linux. To be clear the "O" is a capital "oh", not a zero as I had initially surmised. Always have trouble with that. And you can use the enter key between the three commands even though the instructions in MrChromebox.Tech say to only hit enter after third line is typed in. 3. I had to stop what I was doing overnight and reboot the next day and it seemed to me that the second time around the Ctrl D didn't work (even with the wired keyboard) but then it went into recovery mode anyway. 4. Some of the screens that came up were slightly different than what was described but I was able to figure it out. 5. The Chromebox works great now but the process is made a bit difficult because Google write protects these boxes and doesn't allow it's original firmware to boot from USB. So the hard part here is getting around all that.
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