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Originally Posted by frahse
There are so many possibilities. Like a candy store.
Any piece I want, but only 1.
I want to taste the flavor of a Chromebook, but with the backup possibility of Ubuntu.
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OK, then. That takes us back to the original thread subject, possibly depending on your definition of dual boot. Once, the Google Chromebook Pixel has been put into developer mode, it can boot from USB. In addtion, the ubuntu install CD can serve as a live CD. That is, a reasonably complete ubuntu desktop sytem can be booted and run directly from the installation CD with the possibility to save user data and even OS settings and updates on a disk or USB stick.
Because unix, and by inheritance, linux, (usually) does things in a very regular manner, the exact install CD iso file (file system image) can be put on a USB stick and computers that can boot from USB can boot and run a linux live CD. (knoppix, debian, and likely many other distributions in addition to ubuntu have live CDs.)
Today, I used dd to put the latest 64bit ubuntu (13.04) install CD image on an old 1GB Crucial SD card. A Chromebook Pixel that had already has debian wheezy installed according to
http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chrome...ixel_linux.txt booted and ran in live mode directly from its SD card slot (which showed up as USB, so I guess that it is a USB card reader). It also booted and ran when the SD card was put in an external USB card reader. I have no doubt that a USB stick would also work, as would installing to an external USB hard disk.
Ubuntu 13.04 does not have the drivers for touchpad or touch screen, but a USB mouse (wired or not) works fine. The above drivers can be installed by remastering the CD. Even easier would be adding them to the external disk, but that would be less (physically) portable. The above URL has instructions for building the drivers.
Sound worked, as did wifi, once I supplied the WPA2 passphrase for the access point.
Dual booting multiple linuxes from the internal disk would be pretty easy, but linux + chrome_os might (or might not) be tricky.
Ubuntu can also be run inside chrome_os, but still requires developer mode.
Knoppix and debian live CDs (maybe ubuntu, don't know) can be booted into RAM. This has 2 advantages. Lightning speed (faster than SSD) and frees up a USB port.
I should note that I could not boot the chromebook pixel from an actual USB CD drive, but it could be that some other drive would work.
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Originally Posted by frahse
((((((((((( I am just tired of MS. I want to break from the tedium and live free! )))))))))
.... but I don't want to become a sycophant to Apple either.
So Chrome and Linux have a definite attraction.
Both in the same package have a delightful appeal. 2 flavors in one wrapping.
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