The most bad-ass OS ever created.

Hexxeh's reply: A lighweight, web-based operating system mostly aimed at netbooks, but may run on other hardware too! (and with Flow's release, very often works great ;)

I'm a 17 year old (young, eh?) student who occasionally pretends he's a Web Developer/Programmer and works on various websites with people. By the way, my screen name is pronounced heck-see

Because I think Chromium OS is a cool idea, and I thought I'd fill a gap that hadn't been filled.

The homepage tells you the date of the last full release. However, with the introduction of the auto-updater these dates become rather less relevant.

Chrome OS Flow requires a 2GB USB drive.

Default username is facepunch, default password is facepunch.

Simply login with the details above and try and get your internet working, reboot and the settings will be remembered, allowing you to login with your Google Account as normal.

Trick - If you have a netbook or laptop, use a ethernet cable for a few seconds to login. Once you're in, you will never get this error again.

You need to repartition your USB drive. Use the appropriate tool on your OS to create one large partition in place of the three small ones. For Windows use DiskPart. At the command line type “Diskpart”. Then type “List Disk”. Make a note of the number for your USB drive (make SURE you get this right or you'll be crying when you screw your primary disk). Type “Select Disk=n” where n is the number of your USB drive. Type “Disk Detail” and make sure it describes your USB drive before proceeding. Type “Clean” (this removes all the partitions). Then type “exit”. Your USB drive is now ready to be formatted any way you like. (Mac: use Disk Utility, Linux: use fdisk)

There was probably an error in writing the image to your USB. First, compare the MD5 checksum of the image, then re-write the image to USB. The command line method is more reliable.

Firstly, check your file downloaded properly. Then, try reimaging the image onto the USB drive and booting from it again. Try another USB drive if you can, and if it still doesn't work, it's your laptop that isn't compatible in all likelihood. That is assuming your bios is set to boot from USB. In the case that your computer doesn't give the option to boot from USB use this boot manager http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html#intro.

Sadly not, the hardware support in ChromiumOS is really quite limited, but manufacturers are hard at work adding the changes needed to get it running smoothly. Try a new build as I post them and you may find it's working much better.

Sadly not, the hardware support in ChromiumOS is really quite limited, but manufacturers are hard at work adding the changes needed to get it running smoothly. Try a new build as I post them and you may find it's working much better.

Yes via two methods:

1. Recommended: Follow the multi-boot guide to have ChromiumOS peacefully boot along side your current operating systems
2. Destructive: Perform a simple, but eradicative command which will wipe your entire hard drive (untested on hybrid storage) (currently incompatible with Flow)
   1. Log on to ChromiumOS, then press Ctrl+Alt+T
   2. Execute /usr/sbin/chromeos-install
   3. Follow prompts

This is a known bug with Chromium, and a way to fix it is simply to make sure the timezone setting in ChromiumOS is set to your correct timezone to match the system clock. You may also have to wait until ChromiumOS updates your clock from a network time server. (If anyone knows what the schedule is for that update, please update this entry)

ChromiumOS Flow:

Seems to take less than an hour (about 15 mins for me), so until the source code accounts for this, just play around with the goods until it updates the time by itself. –not affiliated with hexxeh

Yes! You can download the PloP Linux Boot Manager. This is a bootable CD image. Once it boots it will provide a menu allowing you to select your USB device to continue booting. It can also be booted from floppy and a few other options.

When attempting to update the proxy using “Options” “Under The Hood” “Change Proxy Settings”, the button has no effect and no UI loads. The proxy settings will have to be manually loaded.

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T to bring up terminal
2. Execute sudo -s (password is facepunch)
3. Execute cd /usr/bin
4. Execute mount -o remount /
5. Execute vi chromeos-chrome-loop
6. Within the vi editor, scroll down to the section that contains 'while true; do' “$CHROME” with a number of commands.
7. Press i
8. Add the line ----proxy-server=http://your.proxy.server.com:port \
9. Press ESC
10. Type :w [enter]
11. Type :q [enter]
12. Execute reboot
13. Relax…

Using vi is a little tricky, so here is a tutorial.

There are some fantastic shortcuts that are usable in ChromeOS. Press F8 to see the keyboard shortcut layout. Check out the keyboard commands page for further information.

If there's anything I've missed here, just ask on Twitter and if it's a common issue I've forgotten I'll add it right in. Additionally, you can try to reach someone from the hexxeh channel on irc.