Can a chrome book be reformatted for Fedora/Xfce?

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 04/10/2013 05:00 AM, Ron Leach wrote:
> On 09/04/2013 23:12, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>> Can a Chromebook, such as the Acer Chromebook C7
>> C710-2055<http://www.malabs.com/product/C710-2055>,
>> be reformatted for Fedora/Xfce? (I suppose I would finally have
>> to figure out how to boot off a USB stick.)
>>
>
> I found these two links.  This was interesting:
>
> http://www.chromestory.com/2012/11/install-fedora-17-on-samsung-chromebook-series-3-arm/

Fascinating.  Thank you!

>
> This was frightening:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Samsung_Chromebook_2012

Indeed!  This link froze up my entire desktop.  Had to press the
magic one fingered reset (then set up fsck at boot and rebooted).
Been too chicken to try again.

> Ron