Boot Chrome OS from a USB drive

You don't have to wait until sometime in 2010 to try Google's web-centric operating system on your netbook. Since its unveiling to the world a few days ago people have been eager to know how well it performs -- even at this early stage -- and with the source code available online details on how to set up and run a virtual machine version were quick to emerge.

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I hope someone comes out with a 3D FPS. Hopefully a variation of Robin Hood.

I really hope that Chrome OS does well, one day maybe it will be suitable to replace windows on more than just netbooks. That 22 second load time is probably dependent on the USB drive being used too.

well just load that on a USB 3 and you're all set

Mmm good for on the go e-mail with dual-booting, will check and give some feedback.

since it is based on linux i doesn't come as a surprise that they were able to put it on a thumb drive. Lately i've been playing around with bootable thumb drives. A few days ago i made one with windows xp setup on it. very useful when you need to install windows on a netbook (or you simply just don't have a working CD-ROM).

Its asking me for my gmail user name and password at the main login screen when i try to boot.

I am not going to enter my gmail uname/pword into something not prepared by someone i trust.

What sort of an OS is this exactly? Is it only for web related stuff or could someone install a photo edition program, word processor, etc.?

I personally love google android but idk about this os it seems like it would be nice for a netbook which with limited space and no cd drive would help a lot still i have to question the reasons why google wants to bring this os out. dont get me wrong if they get this thing going and it can compete with windows then im all for it.

I share the same concerns of other comments...Though it seems like an awesome idea

Sounds cool. Might wait for a bit though.

I wish the download was not a torrent, as I've had bad experiences with them in the past. I've used Chrome OS on a virtual machine, but the performance was very poor, so I would really like to try it out natively on my netbook.

Technochicken, I am glad they released it as a torrent, it means that if loads of people trys downloading at same time, the servers won't crash/ people get uber slow download speeds.

Now Seed away peeps!

Nice to see another OS being able to boot up from USB. I like the fact that you can carry a Os around that you are use to and run it on any PC that supports USB boot up.

Chrome OS is definitely NOT for me, but I can see myself getting all of my relatives (to whom I provide endless tech support) using it on their laptops as soon as possible.

Hm...now to find them USB drives.

I don't think testing it now is such a great idea. From the sounds of it, when it does release it will only release on certain hardware, and be very cloud-limited...

That's exactly what I said today!
my post was like "it would be perfect if I could run it off a usb stick"! lol
I'm definitely trying this out on the eeepc, it makes surfing much faster than XP i would imagine

Really? This is awesome news wow, I told myself, the GoogleOS is going places.