Download And Install Android 3.2 Honeycomb On ASUS Eee PC Or Laptop

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Go figure, it seems that Honeycomb is able to run on a PC. An open source project by the name of Android-x86 has been attempting to boot the latest Honeycomb build to netbooks and laptops with some success.

Their project goal:

“To provide complete solution for Android on Eee PC platforms first and then to provide solutions for common x86 platforms as well.”

With Honeycomb installed, you able to browse the web, use WiFi, browse your pictures, and even play videos. The port even supports Bluetooth devices.  You can use Honeycomb and all its glory right on your ASUS PC using a standard keyboard and mouse. The source code is free of charge, but they do offer a link where you can donate if you’d like to contribute.
Honeycomb was released alongside the Motrola Xoom tablet, which went on sale in February 2011. The tablet-oriented software has gone through two updates. The latest, version 3.2, can be ported using a small application. Installing the Android software on an ASUS PC involves downloading the ISO and using an application called UNetbootin to install the image to a USB drive or SD card. Once transferred, Honeycomb will be up and running.
Keep in mind that the project is a work in progress. Although WiFi seems to work as intended and the Android Market can be installed, a few random glitches have been reported. While success has been reported with running Honeycomb on a variety of computers including those by Dell and Samsung, it seems to work the best on ASUS branded PCs.
Let’s get started:
Step 1: Download the android-x86 ISO. [Download Link]
Step 2: Download UNetbootin. [Download Link]
Step 3: Insert USB or SD card into computer.
Step 4: Use UNetbootin to burn ISO image to USB or SD card.
Step 5: Open your BIOS options and select the boot from USB drive option.
Step 6: Restart your ASUS PC.
Step 7: Complete the installation process by running the Android OS from the USB Drive or install it on your hard disk.
Step 8: If you choose to install the OS, format it using the EXT3 option.
Step 9: Enjoy!
Wondering what it looks like? Check out the video embedded below:
On their current to do list, the techie group plans to support external monitors, improve power management and support mutli-touch. They have been able to test the port on the Lenovo ThinkPad
The source code for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) was released just a few days ago and the group at Android-x86 is now hard at work to port the Gingerbread version as well.  It’ll be interesting to find out what more cool stuff the developers come out with in the horizon.
(via Phandroid)
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By Edward Marquez | November 20th, 2011
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IntroductionWe have implemented an easy installer to install Android-x86 to a harddisk. The supported filesystems are

• ext3
• ext2
• ntfs
• fat32
  

You can install Android-x86 to an NTFS filesystem to co-exist with Windows. See the Advanced section for details.
Step by step

• Burn the iso image to cdrom, or create a bootable USB disk (recommended). See the Advanced section for details.
• Boot from the Android-x86 installation CD/USB, choose the 'Install Android to harddisk' item, as show below
  

• After seconds of booting, you will see a partition selection dialog. You can choose an existing partition to install Android-x86, or you can create or modify partitions by choosing 'Create/Modify partitions'. Note you can install Android-x86 to an external disk like USB drive. If the target drive is not shown, try 'Detect devices'.
  

• Android-x86 can co-exist with other operating system or data in the chosen partition. If the partition is formatted, you may choose 'Do not format' to keep existing data. Otherwise, choose a filesystem type to format. Note the type you chosen must match the partition id, or the boot loader will fail to boot.
  

Also note if you choose to format to fat32, you will see a warning that android cannot save data to fat32. You can still proceed to install, but the installed android system will work like a live cd system. That is, all data will lose after power off. Therefore we do not recommend to install Android-x86 to a fat32 partition.

• Next question is whether to install boot loader Grub. Usually you should answer yes, unless you want to install boot loader by hand yourself. Note the installer only creates boot items for Android-x86. If you hope to boot other operating systems, you need to add the item to /grub/menu.lst manually. See the Advanced section for how to do this.
  

• If you are lucky, the installation will begin, and you will see the progress bar.
  

• If you see this screen, the installation is complete. Congratulations! Now you can run Andrond-x86 directly, or you can reboot and run it.
  

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How to create a bootable USB stick for Android-x86?

• Use the USB image
  Download the compressed USB image, uncompress and dump it to a USB stick. On a Linux host, you can use the command

  # zcat android-x86-1.6-r2_usb.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdc

  where /dev/sdc is the device name of the target USB disk. However, some broken BIOS may fail to boot such a USB disk.
• Create a bootable USB stick by iso
  There are some open source tools that can convert an iso into a bootable USB disk, say
  
  • Linux Live USB Creator ( LiLi ) -- officially support Android-x86
  • UNetbootin -- see the demo video.
    

Multi-bootTo boot other operating systems, you have to add items for them to /grub/menu.lst. For example, to boot Windows, add the following:
title Windows
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1This assumes the Windows is installed to the first partition of the first hard disk. Or you need to change rootnoverify to the appropriate value. See Grub manual for details.
Updated (2010-10): Since froyo-x86, if there is an NTFS partition in the installed disk, the installer will ask if you want to create a boot item for Windows, as show below

IssuesVMwareYou have to change your virtual disk type to be IDE because the default type in VMware is SCSI, and Android-x86 kernel is not configured to support SCSI. You can follow these steps:

• Create a virtual machine.
• Edit virtual machine settings after the virtual machine created.
• Choose the hard disk and remove it.
• Add a hard disk to create a new virtual disk, then you can choose IDE as your virtual disk type.
• When finished, you can install android-x86 normally.