I used this approach to install Android x86 3.2 Honeycomb on a SD card, whilst Android x86 2.2 was already installed on my netbooks SSD. A flash media prepared in this way shall be bootable on note- or netbooks (press ESC, F2, F8 or F11 to invoke the BIOS boot menu an select the removable boot media as boot device). img file on the flash drive, that will be mounted in Grub boot loader. The install wizard also offers an option to set up a fake SD card. This is important, because then boot helpers will be installed and all Linux partitions are written as. The SD card (listed in most cases as device sdc1) may not be formatted as ext3, instead format it as fat32. After searching the internet, I found an article, that mentioned the trick. But for my own, I failed, because the SD cards created in this way won't boot. In principle, it should be sufficient, to select the flash card as an install target and proceed the install steps.
I discussed the install steps in (but in German – English articles may be found at c, d – and b discusses how to handle Android x86]). In this cases installing Android x86 on a SD flash card will be an appropriate solution. But an install on a netbooks hard disk isn't always an option.
I've used this solution a couple of timee to test Android on distinct netbooks (Eee PC 701G, MSI Wind U100) and slates.Ī disadvantage is, that all settings made during a session will be dropped on reboot.
The advantage: You may experiment with a machine without modifying the already installed operating system. Such a thumb drive may be used to boot Android x86 as a life system. Then you can follow the normal DVD installation instructions.It is rather easy to bring Android x86 (a port for x86 system) to a USB stick or SD card using a tool like unetbootin (see ). System will restart and boot from the USB stick. Quickly! (Some computers use Esc, F8, F10 for boot menu, you should see it on BIOS screen) Press F12 and enter boot menu when you see BIOS interface.Select Drive: "Letter/Name of your USB stick" if not already selected.Click and open previously downloaded *.iso file.Select Drive: '/dev/sdX' if not already selected.Select Type: 'USB Drive' is not already selected.Run unetbootin with environment variable to avoid UI bug.Unplug and replug the USB stick to have OpenSUSE automount /dev/sdc1.$ mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1 ( build the filesystem of the newly created partition ) set 1 boot on ( make the new partition bootable ).mkpart primary ext4 1 -1 ( fill entire USB drive with ext4 partition ).mklabel gpt ( to wipe device and make it GPT ).select /dev/sdc ( if your usb stick is /dev/sdc ).Wipe out the partition table of your USB stick to avoid issues with existing contents.Figure out which drive is your USB stick you wish to overwrite.So, you get an additional option here to avoid the searching for OS image files. Next, select the USB drive (SD Card is not supported) and click on OK.
You will see a simple application window. Either, you can choose the OS image file if you have downloaded or you can select the distribution image and version you want to download.
Note: Universal USB Installer only supports ISO files up to a maximum size of 4 GiB, which can be exceeded by some openSUSE DVD images. It takes several minutes or longer, depending on image size and hardware performance.