[Watford] Android on PC & Mounting disks

[Cliff.G3NDC]

Thanks Toby, nice to hear from you again.
I am trying to get Android to run on an Asus EeePC 900, albeit modified with a 64GB SSD.
I have followed the steps you describe and just can't get it to work.
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.
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.
With 64GB there are plenty of OS which would run on the EeePC 900 but I want to try Android.
I could always drive over and pick up a Disk or Stick?
Cheers Cliff

 



________________________________
 From: Toby Deans <plumocelot at gmail.com>
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk 
Sent: Friday, 1 June 2012, 17:13
Subject: [Watford] Android on PC & Mounting disks
 
Hello Clive,

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/how-to-run-android-on-your-pc-914621
http://code.google.com/p/live-android/
http://www.android-x86.org/

I did have Android running happily on an old ASUS eee netbook - The
Android-x86 project was initially branched off to get Android on the
Ausus machines and I have not kept up to date with how well things
will work on other hardware.

What is the spec. of the machine you want to run it on? Is it Intel or
AMD chipset?

If you are trying to run a live install then make a live boot USB key
with Unetbootin:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Run unetbootin and point to your downloaded .iso image for Android and
give it a few minutes to write to the USB key.

As much as I like Android and it is good to experiment, if you want a
lightweight cloud based OS have you looked at something like
Peppermint, Puppy or Damn Small Linux?
http://peppermintos.com/

I'd consider Android if you have a small netbook that has restricted storage.

Your other option is to run Android as a virtual machine from within
another Linux distro if it is just a case of wanting to experiment
with it.

Toby




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