This gets a little complicated due to the different Chromebooks and when they were made.īasically you need to setup the computers bios to offer the option to boot from USB or SD card. Next you will need to make the Chromebook able to boot from a external drive device. This should give you a backup of the Chrome OS. Running Puppy from a external drive will do nothing to the Chome OS so making a backup is more how to do it. Usually you want to first boot Puppy installed on a external dive. If you are having issues, that my following posts do not solve, these other posts may have your answer.

There are posts by others, giving info on what they did, to get their specific Chromebooks working. I will try to update this info as you post your help. Please help to provide this information for others to use. If you have confirmed results to using Puppy on a ChromebookĪnd can give good details on how to do any of this. How to get all the keyboard keys working properly? How to properly reformat the internal SSD drive? How to install Puppy to the internal SSD drive? How to boot only to the Puppy boot loader?

How to dump Chrome OS and only use Puppy? How to keep Chrome OS and dual boot with Puppy? How to boot from a USB drive or SDHC card? How to setup the Chromebook to boot Puppy? This will hopefully turn into a one stop place to get information on how to boot, run, use, and install Puppy on a Chromebook. Puppy Linux will not work on ARM Architecture processor based Chromebooks. This is for Chromebooks with the Intel X86, X86-64, or AMD64 processor. These computers constantly change, as new models are produced.Ĭheck with the supported device list, on this web site, to see if yours has support. Anyone looking at this topic, with the idea of buying a Chromebook, to run Puppy Linux.

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