<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks Toby, nice to hear from you again.</span></div><div><span>I am trying to get Android to run on an Asus EeePC 900, albeit modified with a 64GB SSD.</span></div><div><span>I have followed the steps you describe and just can't get it to work.</span></div><div><span>Having read reports on the Internet which suggest that I am not alone with this problem, and knowing that the members of the LUG had played with this subject I thought it was worth asking the question.</span></div><div><span>Since I don't know what I am doing wrong I was rather hoping someone out there might have a bootable CD or Memory stick that I could beg or buy.</span></div><div><span>With 64GB there are plenty of OS which would run on the EeePC 900 but I want to try Android.</span></div><div><span>I could always drive over and pick up a Disk or
Stick?</span></div><div><span>Cheers Cliff</span></div><div> </div><div><br><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Toby Deans <plumocelot@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> watford@mailman.lug.org.uk <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 1 June 2012, 17:13<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Watford] Android on PC & Mounting disks<br> </font> </div> <br>Hello Clive,<br><br><a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/how-to-run-android-on-your-pc-914621" target="_blank">http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/how-to-run-android-on-your-pc-914621</a><br><a
href="http://code.google.com/p/live-android/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/live-android/</a><br><a href="http://www.android-x86.org/" target="_blank">http://www.android-x86.org/</a><br><br>I did have Android running happily on an old ASUS eee netbook - The<br>Android-x86 project was initially branched off to get Android on the<br>Ausus machines and I have not kept up to date with how well things<br>will work on other hardware.<br><br>What is the spec. of the machine you want to run it on? Is it Intel or<br>AMD chipset?<br><br>If you are trying to run a live install then make a live boot USB key<br>with Unetbootin:<br><a href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/</a><br><br>Run unetbootin and point to your downloaded .iso image for Android and<br>give it a few minutes to write to the USB key.<br><br>As much as I like Android and it is good to experiment, if you want a<br>lightweight cloud
based OS have you looked at something like<br>Peppermint, Puppy or Damn Small Linux?<br><a href="http://peppermintos.com/" target="_blank">http://peppermintos.com/</a><br><br>I'd consider Android if you have a small netbook that has restricted storage.<br><br>Your other option is to run Android as a virtual machine from within<br>another Linux distro if it is just a case of wanting to experiment<br>with it.<br><br>Toby<br><br><br><br><br>--<br>Reality is only temporary<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Watford mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Watford@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Watford@mailman.lug.org.uk">Watford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>