Installing Android on FLASH DRIVE or MEMORY CARD

First, make sure you have a flash drive or memory card inserted into your computer with around 256MB or morestorage space. Remove any files you may need off of the drive, so you can use it to run Android on your computer.

Now you are ready to download and run setup of ANDROID in your drive. Below is the link to download Android x86 to your system, Click on the link and scroll down to the Stable Release section, and click view under android-x86-1.6-r2.iso. This will start the iso file downloading to yours system.

 In the meantime, head over to the UNetbootin site (link below), and download it as well.

Once your downloads are complete, run UNetbootin. Click on to the bullet beside DISK IMAGE, select the specific path of your Android ISO file downloaded just now. Finally, select the correct flash drive or memory card in themenu on the bottom of the UNetbootin window, and then click ok.

 UNetbootin will now copy the files to your flash drive. This may take a few moments, depending on your flash drive’sspeed. Once it’s finished, it will ask if you wish to reboot. If you want to go ahead and run Android, you can click Reboot, otherwise, just exit and run Android from your flash drive when you want.

 If you want to try Android on a computer that has a CD/DVD drive, you could just burn the ISO to a disk and boot from it..

Using Android-x86 On Your Computer

Now you’re ready to run Android on your netbook, laptop, or even a full desktop computer. Simply reboot yourcomputer with the USB drive, and select to boot from the same. Not all computers will automatically boot from a USB device,so you may have to press F2, F10, or another key, depending on your computer, or change the Boot options in the BIOS

Now, when you boot from the USB drive, select Live CD – Run Android-x86 without installation.

You’ll see a text prompt for a few moments as Android begins to load.

Then you’ll see the Android boot screen, though I only saw it for a moment, as my computer booted really fast into Android. After few second second, you’ll see the Android desktoponyour netbook or computer! You can quickly access any of the apps on the home screen, or open the menu to see more options. Press your mouse’s right button to open a menu, such as to open a new tab in the browser.It works very good as a quick way to get online, the Android browser is actually quite capable for normal browsing,and worked very well in my tests.

Android can even install new applications with the includedANDAppStore, though these will only be installed while thisAndroid session is running. If you reboot your computer, you’ll only see the default applications and settings again.

Android x86 supports all of the hardware, including cameras and Wi-Fi, on several Netbooks and laptops;

If you’re curious about how Android works and would like to try it out on a real machine, this is a great way to see how fast a mobile OS can be on a netbook or desktop. You don’t have to worry about messing anything up, so go ahead and try it for research or fun. I will not recommend installing it to your hard drive after reading the issues in ANDROID forum.