Installing Linux on an Acer Chromebook

I have finally got around to installing Linux on my Acer CB3-431 Chromebook using Crouton. The process was really easy and has increased my productivity on the thing no end so I wanted to share it with you guys.
For full step-by-step instructions check out the blog post at https://guyrobottv.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/installing-linux-on-an-acer-chromebook/.

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I dumped my MacBook Pro for an Acer CB3-431 Chromebook (and a powerful desktop) a couple of months ago and things couldn’t be going better for the most part but I really wanted to try running Linux on my Chromebook for a couple of reasons. Firstly – it’s cool and I’m a geek, secondly it would be useful to have dev tools directly on my Chromebook without the need to remote desktop to my machine at home.
I had originally considered just installing Linux as its own operating system and dual-booting to Chrome OS but realised that not only is that a little risky as support isn’t fully there for my model and I may well brick it – but that there is no point in me having purchased a Chromebook if I just use it as a cheap PC. The real utility of the Chromebook is the long battery life and I wanted to keep that.
Enter Crouton.
Crouton is a set of tools that allow you to create a chroot environment within Chrome OS. In short chroot allows any process to see a different file system. That means that it can, in some way, create a « virtual machine » but without any virtualisation – the process itself is running on the same root operating system but it sees a completely different disk structure. This has been used over the years to allow people to have « private servers » that were shared long before the days of readily available VMs. This is where the ideas used in many containers such as Docker came from.
Since Chrome OS is just Linux under the hood that means we can run chroot with enough downloading of files and configuring bits and pieces. Crouton is a tool that makes this easier, managed the downloading and includes a few scripts that aid integration with Chrome OS. There’s lots you can do with it (such as having multiple chroots) but for now I’m just going to run a standard Ubuntu 14.04 chroot. This is the latest « fully tested » version although you can even run the latest 16.10 of Ubuntu or entirely different distributions.

Read more on my blog over at https://guyrobottv.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/installing-linux-on-an-acer-chromebook/

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