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Is it still done through that chroot wonkery?

dman 12y ago
I am old school in the sense that I like to run my os as a native install directly on the machine without any chroot / vm / hypervisor trickery. This guide walks you through how to do a native linux install and blow chromeos away on the pixel. http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chromebook_pixel_linux.txt http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chromebook_pixel_linux.txt
- nfoz 12y ago
  Whoaaaaa this seems waaaayy hackier than I expected. Will this void the warranty? I just ordered... I will be returning the thing if I can't get Debian installed and given a thorough trial run. Edit: Nevermind it's really not that bad, just replacing the BIOS, that should be fine. I see little risk of "bricking" a machine here, I'm sure I can get Debian running with these instructions and return the product if it doesn't work well enough.
  - darcyparker 12y ago
    Start with creating a chroot. chroots are easy and can be wiped/recreated quickly if you mess them up. I run Debian Jessie in a chroot and have a simple bash script that provisions the additional stuff I want (apt-get, etc..) and edits a few config files.
- Sodman 12y ago
  I'd just like to chime in and say that this guide is pretty much all you need to get up and running with Debian on the original pixel. It worked great and was my primary side-project development laptop for over a year in this setup. I recently restored ChromeOS in anticipation of selling it for the pixel 2 upgrade, and I gotta say - ChromeOS and crouton have both come a long way. Ubuntu via crouton handles everything without any tweaking, which was a major problem I had with Wi-Fi on Debian. You can still take advantage of the <10second-to-browser boot time of ChromeOS if you just need to look a few things up real quick. To take advantage of everything, if you could get ChromeOS to boot in developer mode (ctrl+d at bios screen) and Debian to boot on legacy boot (ctrl+l at bios screen), then you really get the best of all worlds!
pgeorgi 12y ago
There's developer mode, and for those who really want to get rid of Chrome OS, there's https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download/ https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download...

dman 12y ago

I am old school in the sense that I like to run my os as a native install directly on the machine without any chroot / vm / hypervisor trickery. This guide walks you through how to do a native linux install and blow chromeos away on the pixel. http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chromebook_pixel_linux.txt http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chromebook_pixel_linux.txt

nfoz 12y ago
Whoaaaaa this seems waaaayy hackier than I expected. Will this void the warranty? I just ordered... I will be returning the thing if I can't get Debian installed and given a thorough trial run. Edit: Nevermind it's really not that bad, just replacing the BIOS, that should be fine. I see little risk of "bricking" a machine here, I'm sure I can get Debian running with these instructions and return the product if it doesn't work well enough.
- darcyparker 12y ago
  Start with creating a chroot. chroots are easy and can be wiped/recreated quickly if you mess them up. I run Debian Jessie in a chroot and have a simple bash script that provisions the additional stuff I want (apt-get, etc..) and edits a few config files.
Sodman 12y ago
I'd just like to chime in and say that this guide is pretty much all you need to get up and running with Debian on the original pixel. It worked great and was my primary side-project development laptop for over a year in this setup. I recently restored ChromeOS in anticipation of selling it for the pixel 2 upgrade, and I gotta say - ChromeOS and crouton have both come a long way. Ubuntu via crouton handles everything without any tweaking, which was a major problem I had with Wi-Fi on Debian. You can still take advantage of the <10second-to-browser boot time of ChromeOS if you just need to look a few things up real quick. To take advantage of everything, if you could get ChromeOS to boot in developer mode (ctrl+d at bios screen) and Debian to boot on legacy boot (ctrl+l at bios screen), then you really get the best of all worlds!

pgeorgi 12y ago

There's developer mode, and for those who really want to get rid of Chrome OS, there's https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download/ https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download...