DEXGUiDE | Run Android Froyo x86 on your PC or Netbook

You may not want to mess up your existing system by installing Android OS on top of it. In that case, it is advisable to create a separate partition for Android installation on your hard disk drive. Make sure that the drive has a storage space of around 256MB or higher. I bet this wouldn’t be much of a problem as most drives come with tonnes of Gigabytes of storage space anyway. Once you have the drive partition ready, remove or backup any important files from the partition to avoid corruption.

Now, you’re ready to download and install Android on your computer. Follow the link below to download the Android OS. On the x86 download page, navigate to Stable Release section and download the latest installation iso for PC/Netbook.

DOWNLOAD HERE

or Go to Grab-It page

Installing Android on flash drive

Once the download has completed, install the Android image file on a empty flash drive. The embedded video below shows how to get it done using UNetbootin. You can also use the flash drive as live CD to preview Android OS on your PC before deciding to install it on your machine.

Ready to run Android on your PC/Netbook?

 *if you’re not sure whether your PC/Netbook is fully supported, click here.

Now that you have your bootable flash drive containing Android OS ready, it is time to reboot your computer from your flash drive. Not all machines will boot automatically from USB flash drives. For that, you may need to change the boot options in the BIOS.

Change the order of the priority so that the system boots from USB flash drives first.

When you’ve managed to boot from the flash drive, you’ll see the following menu on your screen. If you wish to only preview the Android OS on your PC/Netbook, you may select the option “Live CD – Run Android-x86 without installation”. Other wise, just select the option “Installation - Install Android-x86 to harddisk“.

After successful booting, you will see a partition selection dialog as shown below. You can choose an existing partition to install Android-x86, or you can create or modify partitions by choosing ‘Create/Modify partitions‘. If you wish to install Android on external hard disk or if the target drive is not shown, select the ‘Detect devices’ option.

Android-x86 can co-exist with other operating system or data in the chosen partition. If the partition is previously formatted, you may choose ‘Do not format‘ option to keep the existing data. Otherwise, choose a filesystem type to format. Let me warn you beforehand that although Android can be run successfully on FAT 32 system, yet it cannot store data to FAT32 partition. In the end, your system will end up behaving like live CD and you’ll lose all data after power off. Therefore, it is strongly recommended not to install Android on FAT 32 partition.

The next question is whether to install boot loader GRUB. Select ‘Yes‘ and the installation will automatically begin.

Please note that the installer only creates boot items for Android-x86. If you need to boot from Windows, you’ll have to add the following lines to /grub/menu.lst manually.

title Windows
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1

Let the installation process run its course. You’ll see the following screen when the installation is completed successfully.

You’re ready to run Android on your system now.
The embedded video below will give you a glimpse of Android OS running on a PC. You will notice that your PC will boot in less than 10 seconds on Android.

For most part, Android supports the usual hardware found on PCs including cameras and WiFi. However, you may want to check whether your hardware are supported from here. And also keep in mind that the Android system may not fulfill your computing need as it was designed for mobile phones.

[source By Sathiya seelan] 

my previous tutorial here