(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

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?

Bart

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

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.

Bart

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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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?

Bart

I read your weblink and it's quite complicated.

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

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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. :/

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!

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.