Yesterday I downloaded and installed the latest 64-bit Chromium OS
ArnoldTheBats daily build
Camd64OS-20140508010101.img.7zto an old laptop MSI X340. It booted into Chromium OS successfully and Wi-Fi worked well (push Fn-F8 to turn on Wi-Fi if the Wi-Fi LED is not lit). However, its web browser lacks the plugin of flash, mp3 player or PDF viewer that Chrome OS has. I had to do the following to get them to work:
- Login as a normal Chromium user (not a guest or a supervised one)
- Push Ctrl-Alt-F2 to open the developer console, where it shows "localhost login:"
- Enter "chronos" as the login user, "password" as the password if prompted
- Run the following command to become the root user
sudo su
- Run the following command script as root user to enable the 64-bit flash and PDF plugin
curl -L http://goo.gl/MuVta5 | bash
After it downloads a file that is about 10 MB, it will install the 64-bit flash, mp3 player and PDF viewer plugins and restart the Chromium OS. The following functions were verified to be working after logging into Chromium: