Whoa. Building the current Google Chrome OS release takes a $#!4LOAD of time, by which I mean hours

struggle4progress

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Fri Jan-01-10 06:11 AM
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Whoa. Building the current Google Chrome OS release takes a $#!4LOAD of time, by which I mean hours

and hours and hours. The build requires something like 10GB of free space, and there's substantial downloading required. I did this inside Sun's VirtualBox on a clean install of Ubuntu (Jaunty), with 3.5GB+ virtual RAM and 12GB+ virtual disk

For the ttf-mscorefonts-installer timeout error, I used fix #21 here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/431217

Frankly, I'm not really sure why I started doing this, since I don't think so much of the current incarnation of the Google Chrome browser (except that it loads really really fast!), and the Chrome OS (which isn't scheduled for public release for about a year) is supposedly based largely on the browser

Anyway, I've finally built the image and next I get to try to install it

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struggle4progress

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Fri Jan-01-10 04:52 PM
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1. Well, that sucks. I followed Google's instructions for producing a VB .vdi, then tried to run it

Zip. Nada. Zilch.

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RoyGBiv

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Fri Jan-01-10 09:20 PM
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2. Shot in the dark ...

It is my (perhaps flawed) understanding that it is made to run in VMWare and might have some issues with VirtualBox. I don't know enough about the differences between the two to say definitely, but do you suppose that could be the problem?

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