Re: [Tails-dev] Concerning Tails relationship with the Chrom…

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Author: sajolida
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Concerning Tails relationship with the Chromebook
On 30/08/13 21:02, Herp Derpington wrote:
> I would also like to add that this isn't someone wasting your time just
> trying to get a rise out of you, unlike my name "Herp Derpington" would
> lead you to believe otherwise. This is simply a email that I didn't want
> connected to anything else of mine, and it was more of a joke. I am very
> interested in the work you all are doing with the Tails usb boot, and I
> would like to her what it would take to get it on the chromebook


I like that name :)

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Herp Derpington
> <burnemail1410@??? <mailto:burnemail1410@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello to any and all developers who chose to read over this,

>
>     I was curious as to what was stopping, be it hardware or software,
>     Tails from being live-booted from a usb onto the Chromebook. I
>     understand that you must access developer setting on the chromebook
>     to put another OS on the system, but is the only thing stopping it
>     from not working is not being built from the ground up in choot? I'm
>     not saying its easy, im just curious as to what it entails. Thank
>     you for taking the time to read over this email


I never tried Tails on a Chromebook. But as far as I know they include
Intel processors on a classic PC architecture, so it should be possible.
Did you try to run Tails from that already? I'd be curious to know how
the BIOS works, whether it is restricted, etc.