How To Install To External Drive

Just a simple tutorial to install A Chroot environment to USB or SD card

• Step 1 - Format SD/USB

Open up ¨Crosh¨ by pressing ctrl+alt+t. (durr)

crosh> shell

chronos@localhost / $ sudo su

# fdisk -l

...

# umount /dev/sdb1 or unmount your removable media in the GUI.

# mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1

**NOTE: replace /dev/sdb1 with the listed name of the external drive. **

The system will automatically rename your sd card to: SD Card

NOTE: If you are using a usb drive the system will rename your usb drive to USB Drive.

You can also use this resource to help you as well. (This way is harder and more complex.) https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/Format-external-storage

• Step 2 - Super Simple

Unplug and plug back in your removable storage.

• Step 3 - Installation

Download a fresh installer from: https://goo.gl/fd3zc
sudo install -Dt /usr/local/bin -m 755 ~/Downloads/crouton
sudo crouton -t ENVIRONMENT, xiwi -p '/media/removable/SD Card'

Replace ENVIRONMENT with the desktop environment that you wish to install. If you wish to install crouton without the Web Store attachment, just take out xiwi, when installing.

NOTE: If at any point it outputs something along the lines of: /media/removable/SD/... is not a valid prefix Then you need to add a backslash after SD in SD CARD This is to tell the computer that there is a space and not just the end of the folder name. Ex: /media/removable/SD\ Card/...

• Step 4 - How To Run External Chroot

cd /media/removable/SD\ Card/bin

sudo sh startunity

HELP! It died and I need to clear the carcass.

sudo rm -r '/media/removable/SD Card/chroots/DISTRO'

Replace DISTRO with whatever name of installation (wheezy, jessie, stretch, buster, sid, Kali-Rolling, trusty, and xenial.) NOTE: there are other versions however, they may require extra effort to get them working.

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• Tip

Some external media will disappear after system suspend, prevent that by disabling power management or installing Keep Awake