How did you create the iso ? Could you publish instruction ?

to create the iso, just open the .rar files with an approprieted program, like WinZip?.

i loaded the 3 rar-archives 2 times, i get crc-error in winrar. is it possible that your archives are corrupted? or do i need a different programm for unpacking? btw: winrar build in repair-function did not work.

greetz, elg

This works well for me (VMware Workstation on an Asus 1000HE). I still haven't gotten networking to work but it may be that my VMware isn't setup correctly. How far do you plan on taking this project? I would love my 1000HE to have a full Android install. One last question, if I installed a touchscreen panel would this current release support it?

Thank You!, and keep up the great work, Mike

I need a little help it will boot up but I can not get it out of Text mode and put it into a visual interface! I am a little bit of a noob so go easy on me and please explain it step by step. I would be really if you could help me thanks

Thanks all.

the ISO image working OK, please download and unzip again.

the next step, we'll add more modules, such as camera/mouse/keyboard... Our goal is making a simple Android LiveCD and a full install, just like Ubuntu.

When we do all things right, we'll publish the instructions. welcome your feedback and hope more people intested in it or join our team.

It came up straight away in VirtualBox? on my iMac :)

Haven't found the key for Menu yet, and there is no mouse integration, but I guess that isn't necessary so long as the arrow keys and Escape move things around. Good start though..

thanks gerald.fraser, I also love iMac.

Arrows(movement), Enter(confirm), Escape key(back), Alt + F1(console),Alt + F7(GUI)

the version 0.2 will publish soon, please wait a moment.

hi, great work. Installed on VMwareFusion/mac. How can i get an internet connexion ? Tried on wifi then wired. Browser cannot see internet. Thanks

doesn't boot on Dell Studio. Lot of errors appears and gui does not boot up. If I can help by looking into something specific, just say what.

why RAR?

How can be installed on a pendrive?

Why not put an ISO and or IMG on bittorent? or even here directly. Why not use open source formats as 7z or bzip?

With the tools I have (7z and filzip) I cannot unpack parts 2 and 3, please put all in one file.

reply oseres: internet connection, see http://code.google.com/p/live-android/wiki/networkhowto

reply ulatov: version0.1 iso image size is larger than 150M, google code max upload size is 100M, so we have to use split rar.

reply mitcoes: please tell us how to put it on bittorent, thanks!

Install unrar command Under Debian Linux, you need to type apt-get as follows to install unrar program:

# apt-get install unrar

If you are using Fedora core Linux then use yum command as follows (see discussion below):

# yum install unrar

If you are using FreeBSD, use:

# pkg_add -v -r unrar

If any of above, methods is not working for you, download binary package from official rarlab site:

$ cd /tmp $ wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz

Untar file

$ tar -zxvf rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz

Both unrar and rar commands are located in rar sub-directory. Just go to rar directory:

$ cd rar $ ./unrar

Now copy rar and unrar to /bin directory:

# cp rar unrar /bin

How to use unrar unrar command supports various options below are common options that you need to use everyday.

Task: To open rar (unpack) file in current directory type command: $ unrar e file.rar

Please note that replace file.rar filename with your actual filename.

Task: List (l) file inside rar archive: $ unrar l file.rar

Task: To extract (x) files with full path type command: $ unrar x file.rar

(D) To test (t) integrity of archive, file type command:

$ unrar t file.rar

How to install applications?

I got it running in VirtualBox? on my MacBook?, but just like gerald.fraser no mouse / trackpad.

ALT and Fkeys do not work, neither :(

Anyhow, if there are still problems with the rar's I put the iso online, too : http://tomcode.com/inside/live-android/androidv0.1.iso

I built mine using UnRarX http://www.unrarx.com/

thanks tomlettres for mirror, please wait our version0.2 :)

Anyone know what key combination to use for Back on a Mac Mini?

boot with pendrive?!

will it work on a HP 2133? via chipset, chrome9 graphics. uses the wl module for wifi in ubuntu.

live v.1 and live v.2, not work on the aspire one150. Boot with pendrive (unetbootin), block on the splash screen

@kinneko, I tried your LiveDroid? on a Windows Pentium3 PC and it ran just fine. I got an internet connection through the PC's built-in ethernet card.

@coldstatue, on kinneko's version at least, the ESC key will take you back.

@gmarco.garofalo, ability to boot from pendrive depends on BIOS of PC. Most netbooks and newer PCs have this ability, older PCs not so much.

To join the two v.0.2 liveandroid .ISO files, you can use the COPY command in a command-prompt window: (similar commands exist for Mac OS X and Linux) COPY /B liveandroidv0.2.iso.001 +liveandroidv0.2.iso.002 liveandroidv0.2.iso

HJSplit created an .iso file for me, but Nero Essentials rejected it as invalid. However, Nero accepted the version I created using the COPY command.

reply gmarco.garofalo: we also encounter this problem, fixing now

FWIW, I also stop at the splash-screen when booting Asus 1000HE from USB..

Sorry, my server is down for moment.

I've reordered for this month enough to keep this rate, I'll look for a permanent solution.

... the ISO it has been downloaded over 200 times (30 Go) in this week which exploded my bandwidth limit for July.

Where is the usb image and the vm image?

reply tomlettres: thanks your work!

reply kokieultra: liveusb image is making....

Hi, You have uploaded 4 files : ramdisk kernel init.patch init.rc How could I apply this files ? Thanks by advance ;) Bye

cat liveandroidv0.2.iso.00 > liveandroidv0.2.iso

How to open the soft keyboard?

On my notebook MSI vr.330, boot stops at splash screen (LiveAndroid?)

config: AMD Sempron 3500+, RAM 1GB, Nvidia 6100, sonud hda-intel (snd-hda-intel module)

On desktop: Duron 1600, 1GB ram, NVIDIA Geforce Go 7300, sound AC-97 all the same.

I guess there is no all needed kernel modules included in your build, maybe u need to add more modules such as in ubuntu kernels or the same, if possible.

By the way, in VirtualBox? all runs pretty nice, except battery warning :)

mirror on rapidshare --> http://rapidshare.com/files/253112158/liveandroidv0.2.iso.7z.html

The 0.2 iso also runs virtualized with kvm, instructions here: http://fluxcoil.net/doku.php/snippets/kvm#running_android_1.5_on_kvm

I created a torrent for 0.2, which should make downloading easier for those comfortable with P2P.

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2745021

Wonderful project!!

Hi, works great in VirtualBox?! is it possible to mount an SDCard so I can install applications? thx!

Hi, it can not boot on VirtualBox? 3 on Debian testing AMD64

how can I make it a liveUSB?

reply pydubreucq: ramdisk... for android developers ;) reply nick.denry: the battery warning will be removed in v0.3 :) reply globalc: thanks, so cool reply barees63: SDcard is adding now, see it in v0.3 reply st.jingle: AMD64? perhaps not... we haven't test it on AMD64

I can't find the shortcut key to "Menu". Whenever an application comes up, there's no way of exiting it.

It boots on Ubuntu Jaunty AMD64 with Virtualbox 3.0 normally, but for networking you need to select adapter PCnet-FAST III instead of default.

boot stops at splash screen in VMware 6.5 and no response to kbd

For pendrive creation by terminal follow the next steps:

Install the required packages: syslinux, lilo (sudo apt-get install syslinux lilo)

Insert your pendrive with fat partition (!) in the next i call to /dev/sdb

Fix your MBR in the pen: sudo lilo -M /dev/sdb (not necessary)

Install syslinux bootloader to your partition: sudo syslinux -sf /dev/sdb1

Mount the liveandroid image: sudo mount -o loop <path to image> /cdrom

Mount your pendrive: sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

Copy the android files: sudo cp /cdrom/ /mnt

Sync the pendrive: sudo sync

Rename isolinux.cfg: sudo mv /mnt/isolinux.cfg /mnt/syslinux.cfg

Umount your pen: sudo umount /mnt

I tried to ron the 0.2 image several x86 architextured pc, but freezed in splashscreen.

@livedroid for mirror, and others, contact me in irc.freenode.net #yoo-fejek

Where is Android Market application? How I can install new applications?

@MurzNN: I think, this is the android 1.5 sdk version, and this is not containing the market applicatin. But you can use google to find .apk files.

Running nice on Vmware Fusion on my Macbook, but i can't access the Menu on any application. What's the shortcut key?

Running on VMware Player on XP; screen shots are here- http://www.marthomacentre.org.uk/ml/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=102

Is there any way to rotate orientation (landscape to portrait) or change resolution?

@gevarghese : I have installed the VMware and have the ISO image liveandroidv0.2.iso on my disk. Now What? VMware does not gime me option to open the ISO Image file? What should I do now?

vmware stops with a message: The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. You will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point... what gives?

I got the answer how to configure the VMware Player and here is the link. http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/linux/vmware-player-image-creation.php I can run Android on my Windows XP Pro SP2 now. :)

@vince.crisler:thanx,but I tried this,said failed to create liveUSB,anyone made it?

This one works to get it on the usb key...just hangs at the live android screen now...http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=811397

How do I get it going with QEMU? I concatenated the two ISO files together, and tried: qemu -cdrom livandroidv0.2.iso it boots, but this just shows a black screen..

Juse use VirtualBox? 3. Select "Other Windows" as OS Type, and PCNET Fast III as a network adapter. Configure a static IP and you're done. I can browse the web almost perfectly. I say "almost" because YouTube? doesn't work. And I have no sound either, looks like it's not detecting VBox's AC97 board right now...

For all who wonder about the menu key, I found it. It is the 'menu key' or whatever its called, usually located to the righ of the right-hand 'Windows' key. I too had troubles booting from CD, but threw it in VirtualBox??, and all seems well thus far. Gonna have to go by android_junkee now that its on my desktop! Keep up the good work devs! Update: I just saved my VM state and when I started it again, I have mouse support! Mouse click and long click work, middle mouse is back. Maybe it was working before and I didn't notice? Going to continue playing. :)

Works perfect on VirtualBox3? !!!. What about mounting a SD?? (For MP3 and apps)??

Here the steps for Sun Virtual Box: http://www.walidlab.com/2009/07/android-sun-xvm-virtualbox.html

Please add the following to the Tips section:

The Menu key (as referenced by some of the screens) is the Menu key as found next to the Windows key on a 104 key keyboard. Unfortunately, it does not appear that Shift-F10 works as a Menu key substitute as it does in Windows.

The Windows logo key always takes you back to the Home screen, if you get stuck.

The full list of key codes may be found in /system/usr/keylayout/qwerty.kl, although it is not immediately obvious how to determine which key codes map to which keys.

If you are stuck on the splash screen, just close virtualbox (or restart your machine) and you should be good to go.

reply mdaniel: http://twitpic.com/9uqjt - HOME key and MENU key on a 104 key keyboard

Attached the ISO to the CD/DVD drive on my WinXP VirtualBox? guest OS. Booted up perfectly. I have VirtBox? on Win7 RC 1 install.

Im using hp special edition pavilion dv1000 I could boot android from usb I put the iso in the usb via unetbootin (universal netboot installer) But when i boot i only watch a wallpaper of live android and thats it... can u help me

At first I didn't understand there is no mouse integration in V-Box, I'm such a Noob! After figuring that out everything seems to work fairly well. V-Box version 2.2.4 windows xp host, unknown/other for quest OS.

Great work!!!

Made a USB stick with UNetBootin, and tried to boot my HP Mini 1000 with it, no luck. Like many others, it gets stuck on the Live Android logo screen.

For what its worth, I was able in the past to install EEEDroid on this netbook, so I know at some level Android will work on it.

It's so greate, I just have a try ,but there is a problem ,how can I shut android down? just power off? Excuse a Noob.

reply longshowliu: Alt+F1, /sbin/reboot -f now

strangely my mouse worked like a charm o.O now it just keep popping no sd card detected whenever i open media player. Installed on vmware workstation 6.5.

reply to longshowliu: ALT+F1, then /sbin/poweroff

Like so many other, I get stuck on the live android logo when booting from a pen drive set up using the method outlined above on my Asus eee 900. Does anyone have a clue to how to get past it? Running it in a VM isn't "the real thing".

/Mats

I, too, am seeing Live Android freeze at the "Live Android" image after GRUB. I'm on a Dell mini 9; I downloaded the .iso via .torrent; I made the USB stick wit Unetbootin.

If anyone gets it to work, shout! Until then, I'm gonna toss it on my Virtualbox machine.

Looks good!

Thanks, I got it going on a bootable cd, just still trying to figure out how to go "back" because the ESC key does not resond.

Running on latest VirtualBox? 3.0.2 on a unibody MacBook? 2 GHz Core 2 Duo just stops for me in the splash screen no keys are working and I still seem to not have captured the keyboard as when I press alt F1 I bring up display settings in System Preferences? Anyone got any ideas - much appreciated?

george.r.pope, It should works... http://www.walidlab.com/2009/07/android-sun-xvm-virtualbox.html

Dunno if this has been posted, but you can get internet on Virtualbox (not sure about windows, but on a mac...) if you change the setting on the network tab to be PCNet-PCI II (NAT), it should work :)

I also freeze at the Live Android Logo

Running it on the Aspire One from a live USB made with syslinux

Has anybody gotten wifi working?

It's running nice in a AMD64 under Virtualbox :) Great work. It started at the first shot.

perfect! running extremely perfect on vmware!

but where can I input non-english characters, let's say Chinese?

got it running on vmware fusion on my Macbook. told VMWare it was Linux > Other Linux 2.6 Kernel. Mouse works, network works (bridge mode, though any should work if one works)... the only thing I'm missing is the Menu key, which my keyboard doesn't have. How about something like Alt+F2 for menu?

Menu key is your basic 'right-click' key on any standard US (and non-us) keyboard. The pretty key that is usually located next to the right windows key (icon of a box with a cursor). Any news on SD support, by USB mount?

Like many others above, LiveCD got me into splashscreen then freeze. Good download of torrent (nice & fast, thx all), md5sum checks fine, good burn at slow speed.

If you won't get any further than the splashscreen, try increasing the Base Memory (e.g. to 200MB) and Video Memory (e.g. to 64MB). For most users, this works.

"If you won't get any further than the splashscreen, try increasing the Base Memory (e.g. to 200MB) and Video Memory (e.g. to 64MB). For most users, this works."

This is correct, thanks. :)

Running v0.2 in MS Virtual PC 2007 (SP1) Vista Ultimate 64bit? from LiveCD. 256MB RAM.

@@ S193FA - wifi works fine. If your using virtualization just use do NOT use the NAT settings and bridge your connection with the virtual settings. Hope it helps.

Guys,

I have tried starting version 0.2 of the LiveCD with latest VMware 6.5.2 build 156735, setting as Other Linux 2.6.x with 512M RAM. I also tried removing the sound card, network card, floppy...but still end up with a beautiful splash screen and no keys working (tried all combination).

Thanks, Alex

Alex,

Try it without using the Linux setting, choose Other in any setting. I think the Linux 2.6 setting is not necessary. Let us know if this works. RAM amount is less important, just do not use Linux 2.6 (choose other if possible).

Hi, is there a command to stop a process on the root terminal? Ctrl + C isn't working and I can't cancel out.... :(

Hello , I test LiveAndroidV0?.2 with virtualbox. I use .iso . But how install LiveAndroid? on Virtual Hard disk of virtualBox ?

Thank you for answers.

same with my mini dell 9" . crashed at splashscreen

Androidguide,

I have tried to create a VMware machine using "Other", no audio, bridged networking, 300MB RAM, no 3D acceleration for the display (which is set to 800x600), no floppy, CD/DVD points to the Android ISO...but still no Live Android, just the neat splash screen.

Has anybody successfully ran it using VMware 6.5.2 and not VirtualBox??

Thanks

If you're having problems with it hanging at the splashscreen, verify the two .iso files you downloaded are the correct size (90.0MB for .001 and 84.9MB for .002). I had the same issue and then noticed my iso.001 file was only 76MB. It took me 3 tries to download it completely ...while downloading .001 the previous times, it would randomly 'finish' at 9x% complete without errors!

CLdicamillo: you may be on to something there... mine too hung on every PC that I tried it on, and upon checking the download sizes, one was about 70mb. I've tried redownloading the failed part about 20 times in the last hour and it keeps bombing out at random percentages...

Can someone that has managed to download both files entirely, please put a mirror up. the googlecode one is dodgy+

Booted live 0.2 ISO perfectly under VirtualBox? 3.0.0 r49315. Used OS Type: Other/Unknown, 512mb ram, vt-x enabled, 128mb video memory, 4.77gb HD, Network PCnet-Fast III(NAT). Mouse, and keys work, internet too.

CLdicamillo,

You were right, my download was corrupted. I got the uncorrupted file using the BT link. I should have noticed it's corrupted if I would have checked the MD5 sum....but I did not.

Everything works fine...mouse, network, browsing, out of the box!

Thanks!

Remember the G1 Android has 192MB of RAM, so it's essential you give it at least that much.

Does anyone know if you can browse the market?

http://www.peterdaugherty.com/liveandroidv0.2.iso

i just uploaded it for you guys... enjoy!

I just uploaded a mirror on rapidshare >> http://rapidshare.com/files/256343498/liveandroid.0.2.iso

Enjoy !!

Be sure to have the correct LiveAndroid? ISO, which is about 174MB. I see a lot of mirrors here, try them out!

Just try it on VirtualBox?, it's awesome. However, I can not input special characters, like @,# and capital characters, like Q,W. Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot.

Hi can someone tell me how to setup the internet? I tried all the above and it just keeps saying no device found.

i want to see what the browsers like!

Thanks

Can liveandroidv0.2.iso be used to make bootable usb stick? I tried making my 2GB usb stick bootable using Unetbootin and tried to boot from USB stick on eee pc 701. It says this is not a bootable disk... I want to run Android on eee pc hardware not on virtual box.

I used unetbootin to make a bootable USB stick from the ISO image.

The kernel does boot on a real asus 701 - but crashes before the system is operational. I get a bunch of errors about missing files etc.

Still a WIP (work in progress)... Maybe .3 will be better....

Can someone who got it working in VMWare post their .vmx. I'm still strugging to get it to work.

Thanks.

How do I get root access?

stop at spalsh screen with : e8400 and MB gigabyte X38

and laptop hap pavillon 6000 with A64 X2

just a spash screen for both

make sure that the iso is downloaded properly, check the md5sum... using the partial downloads it took me multiple tries, i uploaded the entire iso as a whole file here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7OFVTI4X and http://peterdaugherty.com/liveandroidv0.2.iso

i would prefer you to use the megaupload link because my servers bandwidth will go down fast if everyone uses it, but i understand that some people can't

I'm too. stop at spalsh screen with

Mirror on Rapidshare >> http://rapidshare.com/files/256343498/liveandroid.0.2.iso

Those who are stopped at Splashscreen: Try to check the MD5SUM of your files...I had a similar problem...

Anyone know how to exit the browser to get back to the home screen?

How can I create a bootable pendrive using Windows?

I am also having the freeze problem. The MD5 is the same as published.

My .vmx is this:

#!/usr/bin/vmware .encoding = "windows-1252" config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "4" displayName = "Kurumin VM" guestinfo.vmware.product.url = "http://guiadohardware.net"

memsize = "256"

ide0:0.present = "TRUE" ide0:0.fileName = "c.vmdk" ide0:0.redo = ""

ide1:0.present = "TRUE" ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect" ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw" ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE" ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

ide1:1.present = "TRUE" ide1:1.fileName = "liveandroidv0.2.iso" ide1:1.deviceType = "cdrom-image"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE" usb.present = "TRUE" sound.present = "TRUE" sound.virtualDev = "es1371" guestOS = "other26xlinux" nvram = "kurumin.nvram" floppy0.present = "FALSE" uuid.location = "56 4d 5d 8e d3 37 b7 b2-26 e7 71 40 02 0c 2f 90" uuid.bios = "56 4d 5d 8e d3 37 b7 b2-26 e7 71 40 02 0c 2f 90"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated" ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:0c:2f:90" ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0" ethernet0.connectionType = "nat" # ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"

extendedConfigFile = "kurumin.vmxf"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted" tools.upgrade.policy = "manual"

checkpoint.vmState = "" vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "16777216"

debugStub.linuxOffsets = "0x0,0xffffffff,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x0"

Ok all, this is what you need to do.

Download VirtualBox?? (its free around 65mb). Download the android .iso file. When configuring the VM for the first time make sure you select Linux, then Other Linux on the options for OS and Version of VM. No need to create a boot disk. Just load the iso and it all works. For some reason the same .iso does not work when used as a Live CD. Hope that was useful. Cheers.

PS: "Esc" is the button on the keyboard to exit a screen such as browsers, settings, etc.

Works great with VMWare Fusion on 24" iMac. Used Linux, Other, 2.6.x kernal, 256mb ram and 8gb max harddisk. Mouse works, network works,

I created a live USB setup similar to the aforementioned ones, except using syslinux and a FAT32 root--and on the MSI wind u100 it hangs at the splash screen, with no obvious error. The hang appears to be just after the 80211 and Bluetooth stacks are initialized, with TCP/IP having already been started. The issue is likely not an unstable clock issue, as that same error came up in .1 but allowed boot as clocksource was automatically set to acpi_pm

I understand the primary kernel-related difference between .1 (works, same way) and .2 is network adaptor drivers. Can we try to do a build with everything but network drivers new, so the issue can be isolated to/away from that.

To create the ISO on XP from Console...

copy /b liveandroidv0.2.iso.001 + /b liveandroidv0.2.iso.002 android.iso

http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/google-android/articles/42577.aspx

here is exactly how to do it follow this tutorial exactly you have to split the files and download 001 and 002 as at first i just downloaded 002 as this is what i thought you had to do but you follow this tutorial and it tells you different thanks to whoever wrote this webpage.

I finally got my Android working in VirtualBox? 3.0! I only have one question. How do I get the internet up and running? I have tried to start the WiFi?, but it seems unable to do that. I am running VirtualBox? 3.0.2 on Mac OS 10.5.7, Android 1.5. I want to use it as much like an Android phone as possible.

I've got it installed on my machine. Using VirtualBox? 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit. I initially had issues freezing at boot, but fixed by increasing ram to 200 as per instructions on list. Check out tutorial with screenshots: http://www.charlesleifer.com/blog/run-live-android-on-ubuntu-using-virtualbox/

It works fine on QEMU, but it took some time to load, even mouse is working

I'm unable to turn-on Wifi while running on HP 6910p :) Have any way to install new applications ?

Anyone for the menu shortcut on a mac keyboard?

does anyone know (if possible) how to install the Android "Market" app? to install other apps....

Install apps:

1. goto console: press ALT+F1

2. change current path: cd /system/app

3. download application: wget http://65.99.230.146/md/1835012/PilotLines.apk (e.g.)

Very good project! It works in VMWare (with network connectivity) but I miss the sound. How could I make it play music or sound?

Unfortunatelly I made a new USBLive today but still freezing on the splash screen on my Acer Aspire One D150. Any ideas on how to solve this ?

Does anyone need another mirror for this project? I'll willing to provide one.

Working beautifully on VirtualBox? 2.1.4_OSE, Ubuntu 9.04. I'm very happy!

I'm also still looking for the menu button on a mac-keyboard like some others… quick solution on the way?

Freezes at the splash screen on Dell Mini 9.

Freezes at the splash screen on Dell.

me too. dell desktop computer, OS:xp,sp3. vmware 6.5

On my regular desktop using 0.3 now with vitual box. At first freezing at splash screen, but after puting the Memory to 200Mb I had it working. Looks very good! Next I will try this on my Tablet soon. (I have a HTC Hero with Android for 10 days now and I love it!)

Is there anyone worked out the LiveUSB?

have solutions to install inside windows ?

Works great for me under Windows Virtual PC, on Windows 7 Professional. Gave it 512 MB of RAM, all other settigns defaults.

For all you Mac fans who can't figure out how to map a button to the menu key reliably, here is a fairly long how-to. Most of this should be done on some other Unix like system. Maybe from your OSX command line if you want, you'll need to make sure you have the squashfs tools. To get them working, you'll probably need to download source and compile. To compile, you'll need "Xcode" from the apple developer site. (or get your own copies of gcc, make, etc...) You'll also need mkisofs I haven't got it on my mac, and after the hassle getting the squashfs utils working, decided just to switch to a Solaris box that did have it.

If you're trying to do this on Windows : Why, you already have a key mapping? And I'm sorry I can't help with how you can make windows do these commands. Probably cygwin would be a good start for you.

Firstly, make a directory somewhere for your live CD's content to live while you build it :

root@sinister:/space/liveandroid# mkdir livecd
root@sinister:/space/liveandroid# cd livecd/

Then copy all the files from the .ISO into here. I've used lofiadm to add a loopback filesystem for the ISO and mounted it under /mnt, you might do that differently :

root@sinister:/space/liveandroid/livecd# cp /mnt/* .

So, now you've got the contents of the live CD. One of those files is the Android "system" directory. That's where the keyboard map lives. So, we need to unsquash the system directory (NB I think the liveandroid image has a glitch. If you "cp /system/lib/libutils.so /data" in your running android, you get Squashfs errors and eventually an IO error and the copy aborts with a status of 1 (failure) which is why the unsquash command is complaining. I tried 3 different downloads, all do the same thing )

root@sinister:/space/liveandroid/livecd# unsquashfs system.sqs 
zlib::uncompress failed, not enough room in output buffer
write_file: failed to read data block 0x32a785a

created 272 files
created 30 directories
created 51 symlinks
created 0 devices
created 0 fifos
root@sinister:/space/liveandroid/livecd# 

So, now we've got (most of) the system directory contents available to us, we can edit the keylayout file :

root@sinister:/space/liveandroid/livecd# cd squashfs-root/usr/keylayout/
root@sinister:/space/liveandroid/livecd/squashfs-root/usr/keylayout# vi qwerty.kl 

I'm not going to teach you how to use vi here, sorry. You can use showkey from your running Android to discover what button gives which keycode. I decided to use 70 which is F14 on my Apple keyboard.

Now, go back up a few directories and join those files from "system" back into a squashed filesystem

root@sinister:/space/liveandroid/livecd# rm system.sqs 
root@sinister:/space/liveandroid/livecd# mksquashfs squashfs-root/ system.sqs 
Parallel mksquashfs: Using 4 processors
Creating little endian 3.1 filesystem on system.sqs, block size 131072.
[==============================================================================================================================================] 3276/3276 100%
Exportable Little endian filesystem, data block size 131072, compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, duplicates are removed
Filesystem size 170234.66 Kbytes (166.24 Mbytes)
        43.02% of uncompressed filesystem size (395745.89 Kbytes)
Inode table size 12467 bytes (12.17 Kbytes)
        53.49% of uncompressed inode table size (23309 bytes)
Directory table size 3843 bytes (3.75 Kbytes)
        64.64% of uncompressed directory table size (5945 bytes)
Number of duplicate files found 1
Number of inodes 354
Number of files 273
Number of fragments 49
Number of symbolic links  51
Number of device nodes 0
Number of fifo nodes 0
Number of socket nodes 0
Number of directories 30
Number of uids 2
        unknown (1000)
        root (0)
Number of gids 0
root@sinister:/space/liveandroid/livecd#

OK, so now you've got a load of files that you can make into a live CD. One last step to do that :

root@sinister:/space/liveandroid/livecd# cd ..
root@sinister:/space/liveandroid# mkisofs -o liveandroid04.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table livecd
Setting input-charset to 'UTF-8' from locale.
Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
  5.68% done, estimate finish Sat Sep  5 14:43:50 2009
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Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 46000
88208 extents written (172 MB)

I called it liveandroid0.4.iso but this ISN'T 0.4!!! I haven't got any other magic in it apart from the slightly modded key layout.

Enjoy!

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USB on Dell Studio> in 03, freezed on bootscreen. Tried to redownload from torrent, but no luck even with that. Can't switch to console to say what happened.

to the people having problems using winrar: ITS NOT A RAR YA TARDS! use hjsplit to put the two files back together. winrar will load the .001 file because it thinks it's an ISO image, but this isn't going to help you use it so just close winrar and download hjsplit.

So far it seem sot be working fine under Parallels 4.x on OS 10.6.1. I haven't looked into sound yet and a little confused about what keys control what. But over all, it seems to be working fine. Network is up as well. One problem. As soon as I leave the virtual app (Parallels) do work in any other program, Android/Parallels goes into Pause mode and even if I tell it to stop, as it soon as Android starts back up, it immediately goes back into Pause. Strange.

Parallels additional comments: It seems that when starting it up in Parallels don't pull the mouse out of the app. Otherwise the mouse might not work. Also, concerning my issue of it reverting immediately back to Pause mode. As Android starts it recovery from Pause mode, hit Parallels Stop button, then it won't go back into Pause mode and your back working.

having an issue with the v.3 ... after combining .001 and .002 into an iso and burning to CD ... wont boot. tried on two different computers. second try, combined the files again to give a new iso, burned again. still no boot. just getting what appears to be the first line of the CD attempting to boot ... then hangs. any advice for changes i should do ... for my third try?

cheers.

update: "having an issue with the v.3" downloaded the torrent file -- full iso without any combining -- and that booted fine.

cheers.

What are the other keys? I have worked out that the windows/super key is home.

Let me share what I did:

1) I use VirtualBox? 3.0.4 & WinXP prof in P(IV), 2GB, Local assembled CPU. 2) During Installation I assign , Base Memory=537MB, Video Memory=33MB & Hard Disk Space=10GB. 3) I downloaded i) liveandroidv0.3.iso.001 & ii) liveandroidv0.3.iso.002 4) According to instruction above I used "HJSplit2.4" application to join the above 2 iso image in a single iso file called "liveandroidv0.3" 5) Now I am able to boot the andriod system.

Great!

But I am not able to connect to network. Though I configure a option of "bridge" mode of VirtuleBox? and configure as follows in console mode (alt+f1);

#ifconfig eth0 XXX.X.20.242 netmask 255.255.255.0 #route add default gw XXX.X.20.5 dev eth0 #setprop net.eth0.dns1 XXX.X.10.2

I am in .20 net my network where 20.5 is default getway and 10.2 is my locally dns which link to my ISP dns and rest of the world.

By using same configuration I have used Moblin 2, OpenBSD 4.10, Solaris 10, OpenSolaris?, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 & Windows 7 Ultimate RC 7200 in hypervisor mode to gain access to lan and global network as well.

BUT still no luck to gain access to internet by using hypervised ANDRIOD and any help much appreciated.

Thank you.

I can't connect network too. but,if i don't reset network config,it can.

it don`t work with Virtualbox.it´s only the start screen!!

Works perfect , thanks.

Ran right-away for me in VirtualBox? on an XP SP3 host OS. I have mine configured as follows:

256mb of RAM, 1GB static virtual disk (.vdi)

Like stated above, the 1G Android has 192mb of RAM, so configure your virtual machine with AT LEAST that much.

Also, just to help spread the word, if you're looking for something more usable and customizeable to run on your PC or netbook, check out:

http://www.android-x86.org/

Salud!