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I lost my windows 7 recovery disks and product key so I was stupid to install Ubuntu because I'm not tech savvy. I barely learned Sudo install apt-get and I can't get Microsoft word on Ubuntu for college work and I would like to have Chrome OS installed. So here are my questions

1.) Where can I get a copy of the ISO for Chrome OS to download and install on USB Drive? Link to a download will be great.

2.) I thought I downloaded a ISO called Chromium but when I restarted and presses F10 for boot options my USB is not showing it just says Ubuntu and a couple things about Ubuntu test.

3.) Terminal commands I may need so I can extract and install Chrome so I can just boot into Chrome.

What I want is Chrome OS I can boot to. I am very simple so if you do have the time to help if you can just simply describe easy step by step instructions on where I can find chrome OS, how to get the file onto USB so it can be bootable and how to be able to get chrome OS booted

Jimmy A Londo
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    This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super User, those about Apple products on Ask Different and generic programming questions on Stack Overflow, blah, blah. Having said that, Chrome OS is on topic on [unix.se] but not really here. Perhaps this question will be migrated there in the future. – cat Oct 29 '16 at 23:06
  • ^ What cat said. But also, why not just reinstall Windows 7? You can get the ISO online if you have a valid product key. – wjandrea Oct 30 '16 at 06:14

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1: Figure out of your computer is Legacy or UEFI. In the BIOS boot options, if there is no [UEFI] tag next to your harddrive/USB, then you are Legacy. If there is, and/or your PC shipped with >Windows 8, then you are UEFI.

2: Download the latest ChromeOS image here:

https://chromium.arnoldthebat.co.uk/index.php?dir=daily%2F

Be sure to select the correct image for your hardware (amd64=64-bit, x86=32-bit).

3: Extract the image with 7zip:

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

and extract it from terminal

7z x chromiumimage.image.7z

4: Burn the image to a USB, preferably with Unetbootin.

5: Boot the USB.

6: When booted, press Ctrl+Alt+F2. Login as chronos. The password, I believe, for Arnold's builds, is password.

7: Then, you can install ChromeOS to your hard disk with the command

/usr/sbin/chromeos-install
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  • Ok so I downloaded a iso from link above. I sudo apt-get p7zip then i typed the 7z x line and got error there is no such archive. What went wrong? – Jimmy A Londo Oct 30 '16 at 04:22
  • @JimmyALondo Did you navigate to your downloads folder? (cd ~/Downloads) – negusp Oct 30 '16 at 04:23