Instructions for running the new Google Chromium OS from a USB drive:
Before anything, download USB build from "hexxeh" (Bittorrent seed): http://bit.ly/5ZxEtx
Windows Users:
1. Download and extract Image Writer for Windows (http://bit.ly/7gRu0n).
2. Launch the program, select the image (chromiumos.img) and your USB drive letter from the drop down box. Click "Write".The install image will then be copied to the drive.
3. Boot and enjoy!
Mac Users:
1. Unmount the drive you want to install Chromium OS to.
2. Place the downloaded file onto your desktop. Open System Profiler, click USB on the list at the side and then select the entry that represents your USB disk. Now look for the BSD Name column (http://bit.ly/5mG4WK). Remember what is written here. In my case, it is disk1, but in yours it may be different. Take care here as if you get it wrong, it could seriously mess things up.
3. Open up Terminal and type the following commands.
cd Desktop tar -zxvf chromiumos.tar.gz
cd chromiumos
For the next command, replace X with the name of the disk you found earlier, ie disk1.
sudo dd if=chromiumos.img of=/dev/X bs=4m
This command will ask you to enter your password (the same one you enter when installing software for example), type it in and press enter. This command will take a while to run, about 20 minutes for me, and then will give you your shell prompt back once it has finished.
4. Boot and enjoy!
Troubleshooting:
Q: It says "Resource Busy"! What's up?
A: You forgot to dismount the drive. Do this, then retype the command and you should be fine.
Linux Users:
1. Extract chromiumos.img and run the following command in the same directory as the file, where X is the device name of your USB drive.
sudo dd if=chromiumos.img of=/dev/X bs=4M
2. Boot and enjoy!
