It's no secret that for a long time the Android system was mistrusted, and many lovers of "apple devices" even pretended that it does not exist. But now more and more people, fed up with the notorious fruits, began to pay attention to this green robot with two antennas on its head. And over time, everyone, even those people who do not have mobile devices, got the opportunity to get to know him, to invite him “on a visit”, on board his personal computer. But what needs to be done for him to come?
Fell upon you with a wedge ...
In order to receive such a guest, it is necessary to fulfill the peculiar “etiquette rules”, the rituals of hospitality. Obviously, in the case of personal computers, these rules will be significantly different from what has already entered into practice with mobile devices. Therefore, inquisitive, but prudent users of personal computers have a difficult situation, which is succinctly described by the phrase "and you want, and pricks." But if you stock up with the necessary knowledge, then everything will turn out!
Nodding acquaintance
The developers of the Android system were very kind and implemented a way to familiarize themselves with the operating system, in which the installation of Android on a computer is not required.
- To do this, go to the website with the programs and download the current ISO image with the latest version of Android.
- The catalogs have images specially prepared for some models of netbooks and laptops. Therefore, it is advisable to take a closer look if you plan to put Android on them.
Guest is on the doorstep!
Further, the kindness of the developers will no longer be possible to use, for the time will come when the boot disk will be created. And you have to do it yourself. However, not everything is so bad, because you can use the development of other developers!
- The program "UltraISO" allows you to create a bootable disk on any media in a couple of clicks: a CD-DVD-ROM, a hard disk (HDD), a USB drive (popularly known as a "flash drive") and so on.
- If the computer does not have a drive, then the image can be written to the HDD or USB. In this case, you must select the "Self-loading" item (in the English version - "Bootable").
Hello, I'm your Android!
To understand how to run Android on a computer in trial mode, you need:
- insert a boot disk or start bootable image, if it is recorded on the HDD or USB;
- select "Run Android without installation".
Download now! Fell yourself like at your own home!
If there are intentions to “accommodate the guest” at home, you will have to prepare even more seriously for installing the Android system on a computer (recommendations for experienced users):
- Allocate a separate “room” for it (that is, an HDD);
- run it through the BIOS and put the boot disk first in the queue in the "Boot Device Priority" section;
- start the boot disk and select the menu item "Install Android to harddisk";
- select the type of file system;
- select the installation of the boot loader "GRUB";
- Confirm support for OS selection at boot if other OSs other than Android are installed.
- rejoice that everything worked out, and the guest became a full tenant.
If it doesn’t work out?
Certainly, many have problems with this guest’s “registration”. The reasons may be due to errors in the preparation of the computer, and the incompatibility of the requirements of this version of the Android operating system with the configuration of software and hardware. In such cases, the correct installation of Android on the computer is impossible. There are no single recipes, but the most general and main recommendation is to do it all over again and with utmost care. The following are a number of particular measures that apply from case to case.
- If Android and Windows are installed on the same partition of the hard drive, the bootloader with the choice of OS may disappear. In this case, it is recommended to install Android in a different section and format it in ext3. It is also recommended to reinstall "GRUB".
- If the computer does not see Android, one of the possible reasons may be that the boot disk is incorrectly made.
- If a message appears when installing the system on the computer that there is not enough memory on the hard disk, the system may be installed on the wrong disk, and the wrong drive was selected by mistake.
- The wait time for starting the installation after selecting the "Install Android to harddisk" menu item is too long. If this time is more than 10 minutes, then you should check how the partition that is selected for installing the Android OS on the computer is formatted. If its format is NTFS, then the error is in this, and you need to reformat it to ext3.
Android at home
Further, curious users have the opportunity to continue their research, as they can install any Android application on a computer without tablets, smartphones and other portable devices.
In case of difficulties or ambiguities, they can resort to the help of the FAQ. Just in case, we recall that the FAQ is not a curse word, but a necessary and useful thing!
Installed Android! How to remove it now?
In this case, one well-known phrase is true: “You can’t have mercy!” It has two spellings, from which the meaning changes dramatically.
"You can’t execute, have mercy!" Do not chop off the shoulder. Maybe first at least a little to appreciate the basic charms of Android? How much time and effort has been spent to install the Android program on a computer!
"To execute, it is impossible to have mercy!" If, nevertheless, the decision to “evict Android” is unshakable, then you should prepare for new lawsuits and proceedings.
Now let's go directly to the example
First of all, you need to download Android. We’ll play with him: we’ll make a bootable “Android live flash” and a bootable “Android live CD”, and then boot the system from it. To do this, just resort to one of the methods. From a flash drive or created disk, you can run Android in "live CD" mode or simply install it on your hard drive.
Download ISO image of Android
We go to the website with the program, then find the "StableRelease" section and click "View". At this point, you should begin the process of uploading an Android iso-image to your computer. Now one small detail. Do not forget to which folder you downloaded iso to, since in the future all manipulations will be carried out with this file.
Create a bootable Flash Drive
Make sure that the flash drive that you prepared for transferring the program is formatted and, in addition, its size exceeds 256 MB. By and large, you can just free up space on 256 megabytes, but it is better to format for the purity of the experiment. Next, you need to put the system image on the USB flash drive. For this, there are a number of utilities. You can opt for "Unetbootin". Run the utility you just downloaded, select "Diskimage" and open the "Android ISO" file. You already downloaded it earlier, you had to remember the path to it. Select the drive with the USB flash drive in the bottom line and click "Ok". Everything is ready for download.
Install and Download Android
To start, restart the computer, go into the BIOS and select your preferred boot option : from USB or from a CD. Save and restart the computer again. Select "Live CD", then "Run Android-x86 without installation". This feature will allow you to run Android without installing it on your personal computer. After loading, a beautiful desktop will appear in front of your eyes. Click on it and hold the context menu. Everything should start to work smartly. But there are other, in other words, additional programs that can be found on "AndAppStore", it is possible to install them if Android is already on the hard drive. Otherwise, these programs may disappear when you restart the computer. Android x86 can support almost all hardware programs, for example, Wi-Fi, cameras that were installed on laptops and netbooks.