On Feb 11, 2014, at 3:00, Kristov Atlas <[email protected]> wrote:

>> On Feb 10, 2014, at 21:43, Hugo Rabson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> That?s way over my head :) but I can help with building and testing a 
>> Chromebook-based ARM port of TAILS. I?ve refined the process of generating 
>> an ArchLinux-based external (USB/MMC) distro, to the point where it?s a 
>> one-line command (a call to ?wget?, followed by a call to bash). I would 
>> like to do the same for TAILS, so that a newbie with a Chromebook can plug 
>> in a thumb drive or memory card, open a shell, type two commands, and get a 
>> TAILS distro in an hour or so.
> 
> I purchased an Acer chrome book recently and found that USB images had to be 
> signed in some special way in order for the CB to boot it. I returned it 
> rather than trying to be the first to figure it out. Have you come across 
> this limitation?

Ah. That raises an interesting issue. Some of the Chromebooks are ARM-based; 
some are Intel-based. Yours was the latter. To do the cool stuff that we all 
know and love, you’ll need to enable Developer Mode. I think this page will 
help, if you want to try again at a later date:-

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/acer-c7-chromebook

Alternatively, try an ARM-based Chromebook. See 
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Chromebooks/zgbs/electronics/2858603011
 for a range of options. Debian has a large section on a Wiki site – DebianOn? 
– that will help you shoehorn Debian (or TAILS) onto a Chromebook.

-Hugo

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