• Chromebook

    From Sys64738@VERT/TXNET1 to All on Saturday, October 16, 2021 09:39:57
    Looking for some help. Trying to make something useful out of this POS. It's extremely lacking in internal memory. Does anyone know of a way to make Chromebook treat a thumbdrive as internal memory? I've seen a few supposed methods to do this on various message forums, but ultimately they don't work.
    SYS64738

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Sys64738 on Saturday, October 16, 2021 11:58:30
    Re: Chromebook
    By: Sys64738 to All on Sat Oct 16 2021 09:39 am

    > Looking for some help. Trying to make something useful out of this POS.
    > It's extremely lacking in internal memory. Does anyone know of a way to
    > make Chromebook treat a thumbdrive as internal memory? I've seen a few
    > supposed methods to do this on various message forums, but ultimately they
    > don't work.
    > SYS64738

    tiny is running some version of linux on his and it works well.
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  • From Sys64738@VERT/TXNET1 to MRO on Saturday, October 16, 2021 21:08:09
    Re: Chromebook
    By: MRO to Sys64738 on Sat Oct 16 2021 11:58:30

    > tiny is running some version of linux on his and it
    > works well.

    i thought about doing that and running my board on it, but i'm probably understating it's lack of internal memory. it's really miniscule.
    SYS64738

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Sys64738 on Sunday, October 17, 2021 02:27:47
    Re: Chromebook
    By: Sys64738 to MRO on Sat Oct 16 2021 09:08 pm

    > Re: Chromebook
    > By: MRO to Sys64738 on Sat Oct 16 2021 11:58:30
    >
    > > tiny is running some version of linux on his and it works well.
    >
    > i thought about doing that and running my board on it, but i'm probably
    > understating it's lack of internal memory. it's really miniscule.
    > SYS64738

    just buy an optiplex off of ebay for 40 bucks. and make sure you change your tagline. it says your internal ip.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Sys64738 on Sunday, October 17, 2021 06:22:00
    -=> Sys64738 wrote to All <=-

    Sy> Looking for some help. Trying to make something useful out of this
    Sy> POS. It's extremely lacking in internal memory. Does anyone know of a
    Sy> way to make Chromebook treat a thumbdrive as internal memory? I've
    Sy> seen a few supposed methods to do this on various message forums, but
    Sy> ultimately they don't work.

    Depends on the model - sometimes they've got socketed memory and you can
    upgrade them on the cheap. The low-end spec is typically 2 GB RAM and 16 GB
    storage, which should be fine to run ChromeOS.


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  • From Sys64738@VERT/TXNET1 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, October 19, 2021 02:42:54
    Re: Re: Chromebook
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Sys64738 on Sun Oct 17 2021 06:22:00

    > Depends on the model - sometimes they've got socketed memory and you can
    > upgrade them on the cheap. The low-end spec is typically 2 GB RAM and 16 GB
    > storage, which should be fine to run ChromeOS.

    I'm upgrading it. Just waiting on my 512gb SSD to come in.

    SYS64738

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