wraggster
March 28th, 2012, 23:02
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Looks like there’s a pretty easy way to install Ice Cream Sandwich, the newest version of Android, on your Netbook (http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/blog/2012/03/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-on-a-netbook-part-1-install/). Actually this is limited to a few types of hardware including netbooks like the eeePC. That’s because the ISO files used during installation have been tailored to the hardware used on those devices. As with other Linux distros, the ISO file can be loaded on a thumb drive using Unetbootin (http://hackaday.com/2008/10/30/battle-of-the-thumb-drive-linux-distros/). From there you can give it a whirl as a Live CD (or USB as it were) or choose to install it on your hard drive. We haven’t given it a spin as the eeePC version doesn’t want to boot on our Dell Mini 9, but we don’t see a reason why this couldn’t be set up as a dual boot option.
Now why would you want to run Android on your netbook? We’ve already seen that there’s a way to run Android apps in Ubuntu (http://hackaday.com/2009/05/26/ubuntu-gets-android-apps/). We bet some people just love Android, and others just hate the Unity desktop that Ubuntu now uses… especially when the Netbook Remix (http://hackaday.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/) had a lot of good things going for it.
http://hackaday.com/2012/03/28/android-on-your-netbook/
Looks like there’s a pretty easy way to install Ice Cream Sandwich, the newest version of Android, on your Netbook (http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/blog/2012/03/android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-on-a-netbook-part-1-install/). Actually this is limited to a few types of hardware including netbooks like the eeePC. That’s because the ISO files used during installation have been tailored to the hardware used on those devices. As with other Linux distros, the ISO file can be loaded on a thumb drive using Unetbootin (http://hackaday.com/2008/10/30/battle-of-the-thumb-drive-linux-distros/). From there you can give it a whirl as a Live CD (or USB as it were) or choose to install it on your hard drive. We haven’t given it a spin as the eeePC version doesn’t want to boot on our Dell Mini 9, but we don’t see a reason why this couldn’t be set up as a dual boot option.
Now why would you want to run Android on your netbook? We’ve already seen that there’s a way to run Android apps in Ubuntu (http://hackaday.com/2009/05/26/ubuntu-gets-android-apps/). We bet some people just love Android, and others just hate the Unity desktop that Ubuntu now uses… especially when the Netbook Remix (http://hackaday.com/2009/10/29/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/) had a lot of good things going for it.
http://hackaday.com/2012/03/28/android-on-your-netbook/