How To Install To External Drive - andrewscaya/crouton GitHub Wiki

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

• Step 1 - Format SD/USB

Take a USB or SD Card and format it to ext4 (sadly chrome OS does not do this by default)

• Step 2 - Super Simple

Plug USB/SD into Chromebook (durr)

• Step 3 - Installation

sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -r DISTRO -t xiwi,ENVIRONMENT -p '/media/removable/NAME OF DRIVE'

Replacing DISTRO with the distro you wish to install, replacing ENVIRONMENT with the desktop environment you wish, and NAME OF DRIVE with the name of your external drive.

• Step 4 - How To Run External Chroot

sudo sh '/media/removable/NAME OF DRIVE/bin/ENVIRONMENT'

change ENVIRONMENT to what desktop environment you have and NAME OF DEVICE to the name of your external drive.

• Step 5 - Remove External Chroot

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

Replace DISTRO with whatever name of instalation (precise,trusty,sana,Kali-Rolling)