Thrown Android X86 on Netbook, need some help

Martini1991 · 10 Mar 2012 at 21:38

Well, I'd recently been running Windows 8 Consumer Preview on my Netbook, as my netbook was faster for it, however my Wifi seemed to tank on it.

Anyways, I'd looked into Android on a Netbook before, and with ICS being ported, I figured I'd give it a go.

Now, first of all, my netbooks fully working perfectly with ICS, it's nice and fast etc, however it's internal partition is only 2GB, as I have 2GB RAM (However that 2GB is actual Hard Drive partition)

I'm not sure how to go about mounting the internal HDD as an SD card, here's the instructions, but I really don't get them ;
http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/wiki/SdcardHowTo

Has anyone done this before?

Cheers.

CinderzFTW · 11 Mar 2012 at 10:27

Erm, could be problematic actually installing Android on a Windows based netbook.

You might not be able to get the correct sound, chipset and video drivers tbh!

Be Careful!

Martini1991 · 11 Mar 2012 at 11:30

CinderzFTW said:
Erm, could be problematic actually installing Android on a Windows based netbook.

You might not be able to get the correct sound, chipset and video drivers tbh!

Be Careful!

My sound etc all works, video seems fine.
I quite literally just need help with sorting the storage space out.

Then use my netbook as intended ; Browsing and Media Play back, nice and fast, leaps ahead of what it could ever do with Windows.

feck199 · 11 Mar 2012 at 11:38

I havnt had to do anything with kernels so no great suggestions for an easy fix.

But as you've already used ICS thats been ported, was it ported for your netbook or is it a general build.

I'd think you would have more luck searching for your netbook itself along with android sdcard.

If its a port just for your netbook, i'd assume there is a forum or some more information about it? Using android awhile, pretty much every port or anything has somewhere with a lot of information posted about it.

What is it running off at the moment? I was thinking you wanted to access an sdcard. Reading it again, you want to access the internal harddrive? This means your running the os as a live image off a usb port at the moment rather than trying to get it installed to the harddrive in the first place?

"External usb drive and sdcard are auto mounted to /mnt/USB on plugging."

Martini1991 · 11 Mar 2012 at 12:05

There's no specific build for my netbook, I'm just using an Asus EEPC image.

It's installed to my hard drive, via the installer, so boots from my hard drive, however, it'll only have 2GB internal memory/storage , you can also create a 2GB fake SD card, I'm trying to mount a 240GB partition of my internal hard drive as SD card (For mass storage)

As that's the way it's meant to be I believe?
I have no problem locating a plugged in USB stick, but my USB stick isn't that big.

I have a Samsung N150 Plus.