How to put Puppy on a Samsung Chromebook?

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How to put Puppy on a Samsung Chromebook?

#1 Post by BartSr »

Last week I bought a Samsung Chromebook (€ 199) and experimented with several versions of Ubuntu on it (dual boot ChromeOS-Ubuntu):
Ubuntu booting from SD-card,
Ubuntu booting from Usb-stick and
Ubuntu booting from the 16 Gb internal SSD.
The last version is the quickest one. In that case Ubuntu has 10 Gb and ChromeOS 6 Gb.

Now I want to do the same with Puppy. Is there anyone who can tell me how to do that?

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Arm 7 on Samsung Chromebook

#2 Post by don570 »

Barry Kauler has been compiling the system apps for both Arm 6
and Arm 7.

According to internet the Samsung Chromebook is Arm 7.

Here's a picture of Puppy running on Arm 7 (a mele 1000 )
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02808
(By the way Raspberry pi is Arm 6.)

So in theory a person who was
an expert in the Chromebook bootup routine could put together
a distro very easily. Chromebook has a very unique bootup routine
from what I have read at lilliputing.com
The Samsung Chromebook XE303C12
Architecture
ARMv7
Processor
Samsung Exynos 5250
RAM
2048MB
NAND
16384MB
SD
Full SD
USB
2
Ethernet
None
Wireless
A/B/G/N

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#3 Post by BartSr »

Thanks for your information.
And yes, the installation of Linux is simple, as you see in these examples:

http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.nl/

http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.nl/2012/1 ... 1-now.html

The most important part of the instruction of how to load Ubuntu is:

wget http://goo.gl/34v87; sudo bash 34v87

So I hope someone will come with an instruction like this one, but for Puppy.

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#4 Post by don570 »

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wget http://goo.gl/34v87; sudo bash 34v87 
An install script like that reminds of the work of noryb009
who put together a script to install puppy from the Windows side

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=61404

So several people on the forum do have the technical knowledge.

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#5 Post by BartSr »

Here http://blogs.arm.com/software-enablemen ... hromebook/ I read that it is possible to make a SD-card to boot the Chromebook with a Linux-version of your choice.

Could it be that this offers a solution for my question?

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#6 Post by don570 »

I read your weblink and it's quite complicated.

It would only be practical if a GUI installer was developed.

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A touchy subject

#7 Post by bibzpu »

I got my Acer C720 chromebook to boot puppy from usb drive but no luck with the unique kernel modules for the chromebook touchpad.

I can't wait to get the touchpad functional and see if this low-priced (US $199) pc can be like a high-priced ultrabook.

The simple several steps I used getting the Acer Chromebook to boot from usb drive were found at this website:

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_C720_Chromebook

I dunno if the same steps would work for a Samsung Chromebook.

But without a working touchpad, I can't get anything accomplished. :/

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Puppy on Samsung ARM Chromebook

#8 Post by geosimonis »

I don't quite understand why no one can treat this as a real opportunity for puppy linux. Chromebooks are a terrific opportunity to show your stuff! Puppy will run fast and probably be the first choice of many people who want a full linux, not just Chromebook OS. This is like an American knock-knock Puppy joke:

Knock-knock.
Who's there?
Chromebook...
GO AWAY!!!

Chrome OS is great but incomplete, but having Chrome, PLUS Puppy...AWESOME!!! If UBUNTU can be installed, surely Puppy should be a snap!
Oh, and PLEASE, no more linux snobby non- responses. It just amuses me when people have nothing to say, then expend many lines of trite to tell me so... Thanks in advance for any REAL help with this!

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#9 Post by bibzpu »

Well, Puppy has historically been geared to resuscitate and get more years out of older computers.

From memory, Fatdog puppy has a distro that can run on certain Chromebooks.

I'm not a developer, but I don't think it would be easy to get a puppy distro to run on a Chromebook. Firstly, not all Chromebooks are the same. Secondly, it's been a major project just to get non-puppy Linux distros to run on a given Chromebook.

That said, I think I should attend Linux meetings in my vicinity and maybe I'll get lucky and find a brain there who would devote time to producing a puppy iso of my favorite puppy distro for the Chromebook that I use.

Hope this feedback helped.

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