View Full Version : [ubuntu] How do you install Andriod OS on Ubuntu
PopsTheSailor
January 31st, 2015, 08:14 PM
It there an easy way yet to install the Andriod OS on Ubuntu? I use VirtualBox to run windows. Can I set up another virtual device with Android? I found a link that made you install Java JDK, android SDK then eclipse to run it. Is it possible yet to easily install it under Ubuntu somehow?
sammiev
January 31st, 2015, 08:25 PM
I tried there ISO on a live USB which worked OK but never tried it under a VM yet or an install to a HDD.
I tried this (http://www.android-x86.org/download).
PopsTheSailor
January 31st, 2015, 08:40 PM
So I don't have a lot of experience here. Are you saying to just install the ISO to a flash drive and then you can boot the laptop off the USB stick right into the Android OS?
sammiev
January 31st, 2015, 08:51 PM
So I don't have a lot of experience here. Are you saying to just install the ISO to a flash drive and then you can boot the laptop off the USB stick right into the Android OS?
You need to make a bootable USB or DVD using the ISO. You can use UNetbootin or mkusb or whatever program you used for making the bootable Ubuntu ISO you installed Ubuntu with.
I like mkusb (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073) myself.
kerry_s
January 31st, 2015, 08:53 PM
i think he's saying grab the latest iso & try it in virtual box.
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/android-x86/Release%204.4/android-x86-4.4-RC2.iso?r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.android-x86.org%2Fdownload&ts=1422733933&use_mirror=softlayer-dal
ps: first thing you need to do is disable sleep/screenoff, whatever it's called. it needs to be set to never, once it sleeps theres no waking it up. thats for the live, don't know about installed. i had other issues so i didn't install.
grahammechanical
January 31st, 2015, 09:53 PM
Android usually runs on ARM devices. So, we need an x86 version of Android. This link might help you.
http://www.howtogeek.com/164570/how-to-install-android-in-virtualbox/
https://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list
I might give this a try myself. Please use this thread to keep us informed if this is successful.
Regards.
sammiev
January 31st, 2015, 11:17 PM
Android usually runs on ARM devices. So, we need an x86 version of Android. This link might help you.
http://www.howtogeek.com/164570/how-to-install-android-in-virtualbox/
https://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list
I might give this a try myself. Please use this thread to keep us informed if this is successful.
Regards.
Thanks for the updated link, I see it contains newer ISO's than the one I posted.
I will try it again myself.
grahammechanical
January 31st, 2015, 11:46 PM
I tried the ISO image from the two links that I provided and I did not get very far. The live session loads up to "Detecting Android-86" and presents a progress bar of dots being printed to the screen does not get farther than that on my machine. There is also a VESA mode which I tried with the same results. Ctrl+Alt+Del does restart the machine without any ill effects.
This link might be more useful. I have downloaded Android-x86-4.4-Rc2.iso and am about to try it out.
http://www.android-x86.org/
http://www.android-x86.org/download
Regards.
kerry_s
January 31st, 2015, 11:51 PM
I tried the ISO image from the two links that I provided and I did not get very far. The live session loads up to "Detecting Android-86" and presents a progress bar of dots being printed to the screen does not get farther than that on my machine. There is also a VESA mode which I tried with the same results. Ctrl+Alt+Del does restart the machine without any ill effects.
This link might be more useful. I have downloaded Android-x86-4.4-Rc2.iso and am about to try it out.
http://www.android-x86.org/
http://www.android-x86.org/download
Regards.
i put the link straight to the iso.
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/android-x86/Release%204.4/android-x86-4.4-RC2.iso?r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.android-x86.org%2Fdownload&ts=1422733933&use_mirror=softlayer-dal
save you time clicking around
grahammechanical
February 1st, 2015, 12:52 AM
I have just tried the Android-x86-4.4-RC2 ISO image and I get no further than Detecting Android-x86. I allowed it more than 30 minutes before giving it the 3 finger salute.
I may try the install session tomorrow. Or the debug session. See if that is more useful.
Regards.
sammiev
February 1st, 2015, 01:20 AM
I tried it live and it works great. ( picked up all my hardware as well ) Will install it into VMware later tonight and post back.
kerry_s
February 1st, 2015, 01:45 AM
I tried it live and it works great. ( picked up all my hardware as well ) Will install it into VMware later tonight and post back.
let me know how that go's. the main issue i had when running live was app's crashing or just didn't work, so i chose not to install, didn't want to take the chance of installing only to find i can't use the app's i want to use. i don't think hardware rendering was on for me.
grahammechanical
February 1st, 2015, 02:33 AM
I found these documentation links about adding nomodeset (which I think that I will need) and what happens during install process. The information is a bit old. I note to use an Ext3 partition and not to install Grub because it will only detect Android-x86. The documentation speaks of grub menu.list. So, it is old. I will experiment. I have 2 HDD with different installs of Ubuntu on. So, I will not lose access to an install of Ubuntu.
http://www.android-x86.org/documents/installhowto
http://www.android-x86.org/documents/how-to-boot-the-android-x86-live-cd-when-you-have-problems-with-your-graphiccard
http://www.android-x86.org/documents
@sammiev
I am glad someone has had success.
Regards.
sammiev
February 1st, 2015, 03:39 AM
Installed well into VMware but ran like crap. Programs installed like firefox but would crash when loaded. Updates went well but mouse was jerky, will try a live install to the HDD and see how that works.
sammiev
February 1st, 2015, 08:30 PM
Installed to my spare HDD and it ran great. Used it for the evening and enjoyed the run. Look forward to the next release, this release was a little older than the one that's on my tablet.
kerry_s
February 1st, 2015, 09:28 PM
Installed to my spare HDD and it ran great. Used it for the evening and enjoyed the run. Look forward to the next release, this release was a little older than the one that's on my tablet.
no more issues with crashing?
sammiev
February 2nd, 2015, 04:33 AM
no more issues with crashing?
On the VM it was not pretty.
kagashe
September 29th, 2015, 04:03 AM
This is an old thread but never mind.
I initially tried the official latest stable version android-x86-4.4-r3 live which could boot into root terminal (no GUI). I posted on Google Groups and was told that my card AMD E1-6010 APU with AMD Radeon R2 Graphics.was supported on Lollipop Test Build.
These builds were ISO images with EFI Folder but did not boot on EFI, so I switched to Legacy on BIOS and I could boot to GUI. I also tried one latest test build which had Google Play. It works but sometimes reboots due to bugs.
In the process I learned how to boot the live usb disk and installed one on grub2 EFI without changing BIOS to Legacy which may be useful information here.
My /etc/grub.d/40_custom has following menu entries:
menuentry 'Android-x86 5.1 live' --class android-x86 {
set root='(hd1,msdos1)'
linux /kernel root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=android_x86 quiet SRC= DATA=
initrd /initrd.img
}
menuentry 'Android-x86 5.1 on sda13' --class android-x86 {
set root='(hd0,gpt13)'
linux /android-2015-08-16/kernel root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=android_x86 quiet SRC=/android-2015-08-16 DATA=/android-2015-08-16/data
initrd /android-2015-08-16/initrd.img
}
The first entry is to boot live on sdb1, the second one is to boot installed one on sda13. Android Lollipop install requires ext4 partition to work properly.
Kamalakar
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