ChromiumOS Zero Boots Faster

At long last, Chromium OS Zero has been released. What can you expect from this new build? Well:

• Newer version of ChromiumOS code
• Major speed improvements for many users
• Reduced Broadcom delay
• New artwork for the boot process
• Full extension support
• Reduced download size, clocks in at under 250MB
• Still fits on a 1GB USB drive despite the new features
• Beginnings of multi-language input (requires a little terminal work to add your language as there is no UI yet)
• Quite a lot more!

Download ChromiumOS Zero from here

Windows installation Instructions

1. If you downloaded the OS image via bittorent, make sure that you have extracted the .img file from the compressed .tar file.
2. Using the Windows Image Writer, select the image (ChromeOS-Zero.img) and your USB drive letter from the drop down box.
3. Click “Write”. The install image will then be copied to the drive.
4. Note : The USB Flashdrive will be reformatted to fit the Image
5. Once it’s done, close the program and you can then boot from the USB drive.
6. You’re done!

Mac installation Instructions

Please note: This will not boot from your Mac!

1. Open up Terminal and type “diskutil list” to find your BSD name (i.e. “disk1”) for the drive. You may also use Disk Utility to get this information:
   1. Launch Disk Utility (located in your Utilities folder)
   2. Select your USB drive and hit Command-I to get its “Disk Identifier,” which is the BSD name for the device.
2. Unmount the drive you want to install Chromium OS to, by entering “sudo diskutil unmount disk1s1” (replacing “disk1” with your BSD name) to unmount the volume, but leave it accessible for the upcoming “dd” commands. (Don’t eject the drive from Finder).
3. Place the downloaded file onto your desktop.
4. Open up Terminal and type the following commands.
5. cd Desktop tar -zxvf ChromeOS-Zero.tar.gz
6. For the next command, replace X with the name of the disk you found earlier (i.e. “disk1”).
7. sudo dd if=ChromeOS-Zero.img of=/dev/X bs=4m
8. This command will ask you to enter your password (the same one you enter when installing software for example), type it in and press enter. This command will take a while to run, about 20 minutes for me, and then will give you your shell prompt back once it has finished.
9. Once it has, you can remove your USB drive and boot from it (but not on your Mac because I’ll tell you now that won’t work, yes I tried it)

Linux installation Instructions

Command Line Install

Easy Ubuntu/Debian Install

1. Extract ChromeOS-Zero.img to any location.
2. Install USB-ImageWriter using Synaptic Package Manager
3. Run Applications –> Accessories –> ImageWriter
4. Choose location of image file and SD or USB drive location
5. Write image and reboot.