{"id":36,"date":"2011-12-13T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=36"},"modified":"2023-07-19T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T14:14:30","slug":"installing-android-x86-on-a-sd-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2011\/12\/13\/installing-android-x86-on-a-sd-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Android x86 on a SD card"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German<\/a>]Android x86 may be bootet either as a life system or be installed on a hard disk (SSD). Whilst a life system runs from a usb stick, changes a lost during reboot. Setting up Android on a hard disk isn't always an option, especially, if it destroys an already installed OS. Installing Android-x86 on a SD card may be a good compromise.<\/p>\n

\"\"It is rather easy to bring Android x86 (a port for x86 system) to a USB stick or SD card using a tool like unetbootin (see [1<\/a>, b]). Such a thumb drive may be used to boot Android x86 as a life system. The advantage: You may experiment with a machine without modifying the already installed operating system. I've used this solution a couple of timee to test Android on distinct netbooks (Eee PC 701G, MSI Wind U100) and slates. <\/p>\n

A disadvantage is, that all settings made during a session will be dropped on reboot. But an install on a netbooks hard disk isn't always an option. In this cases installing Android x86 on a SD flash card will be an appropriate solution. I discussed the install steps in [2<\/a>] (but in German – English articles may be found at c, d<\/a> \u2013 and b<\/a> discusses how to handle Android x86]). <\/p>\n

In principle, it should be sufficient, to select the flash card as an install target and proceed the install steps. But for my own, I failed, because the SD cards created in this way won't boot. After searching the internet, I found an article [a<\/a>], that mentioned the trick. The SD card (listed in most cases as device sdc1<\/em>) may not be formatted as ext3, instead format it as fat32<\/em>. This is important, because then boot helpers will be installed and all Linux partitions are written as .img files on the flash media. <\/p>\n

The install wizard also offers an option to set up a fake SD card. This command creates another .img file on the flash drive, that will be mounted in Grub boot loader. A flash media prepared in this way shall be bootable on note- or netbooks (press ESC, F2, F8 or F11 to invoke the BIOS boot menu an select the removable boot media as boot device). I used this approach to install Android x86 3.2 Honeycomb on a SD card, whilst Android x86 2.2 was already installed on my netbooks SSD. <\/p>\n

Further articles:
<\/strong>1: Android-Netbook im Eigenbau (Teil 1)<\/a> German
2: Android Live-System booten und installieren (Teil 2)<\/a> German <\/p>\n

Links: <\/strong>a: Android-x86 Installed on SD-Card in 10 Steps<\/a> (English)
b: Run Android on Your Netbook or Desktop
c: How to Run Android in VirtualBox, VMWare<\/a>
d: Guide: Install Android-x86* on Intel\u00ae Processor Based Systems
e: Run Android on Your PC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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