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    From Sys64738@VERT/TXNET1 to All on Sat Oct 16 09:39:57 2021
    Looking for some help. Trying to make something useful out of this POS. It's extremely lacking in internal memory. Does anyone know of a way to make Chromebook treat a thumbdrive as internal memory? I've seen a few supposed methods to do this on various message forums, but ultimately they don't work.
    SYS64738

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Sys64738 on Sat Oct 16 11:58:30 2021
    Re: Chromebook
    By: Sys64738 to All on Sat Oct 16 2021 09:39 am

    Looking for some help. Trying to make something useful out of this POS. It's extremely lacking in internal memory. Does anyone know of a way to make Chromebook treat a thumbdrive as internal memory? I've seen a few supposed methods to do this on various message forums, but ultimately they don't work.
    SYS64738

    tiny is running some version of linux on his and it works well.
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  • From Sys64738@VERT/TXNET1 to MRO on Sat Oct 16 21:08:09 2021
    Re: Chromebook
    By: MRO to Sys64738 on Sat Oct 16 2021 11:58:30

    tiny is running some version of linux on his and it
    works well.

    i thought about doing that and running my board on it, but i'm probably understating it's lack of internal memory. it's really miniscule.
    SYS64738

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Sys64738 on Sun Oct 17 02:27:47 2021
    Re: Chromebook
    By: Sys64738 to MRO on Sat Oct 16 2021 09:08 pm

    Re: Chromebook
    By: MRO to Sys64738 on Sat Oct 16 2021 11:58:30

    tiny is running some version of linux on his and it works well.

    i thought about doing that and running my board on it, but i'm probably understating it's lack of internal memory. it's really miniscule.
    SYS64738

    just buy an optiplex off of ebay for 40 bucks. and make sure you change your tagline. it says your internal ip.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Sys64738 on Sun Oct 17 06:22:00 2021
    Sys64738 wrote to All <=-

    Looking for some help. Trying to make something useful out of this
    POS. It's extremely lacking in internal memory. Does anyone know of a way to make Chromebook treat a thumbdrive as internal memory? I've
    seen a few supposed methods to do this on various message forums, but ultimately they don't work.

    Depends on the model - sometimes they've got socketed memory and you can upgrade them on the cheap. The low-end spec is typically 2 GB RAM and 16 GB storage, which should be fine to run ChromeOS.


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  • From Sys64738@VERT/TXNET1 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Oct 19 02:42:54 2021
    Re: Re: Chromebook
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Sys64738 on Sun Oct 17 2021 06:22:00

    Depends on the model - sometimes they've got socketed memory and you can upgrade them on the cheap. The low-end spec is typically 2 GB RAM and 16 GB storage, which should be fine to run ChromeOS.

    I'm upgrading it. Just waiting on my 512gb SSD to come in.

    SYS64738

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