Friday 30 October 2015

Android on Intel's Compute Stick (STCK1A32WFC)

Intel STCK1A32WFC

This product comes with windows 8, and is fully capable of running ubuntu and android directly. To make this work, you'll first need to prepare an USB drive with the necessary OS that you would like, Ubuntu or Android x86.

The easy part.

Put a bootable USB stick with the os into a USB hub connected to the device, and press F10 upon the boot process to select to boot from the USB.

Note: I tested with Ubuntu 14.04 and also the android 4.4.2-r1-ia2 (kitkat-IA) from https://01.org/android-ia/downloads.

How to prepare the USB.

Linux:

Windows:
Use rufus

OSX:
open terminal and type the commands below

sudo su            <-this is to grant you superuser access
diskutil list      <- this to find out which drive number your usb is assigned.

the find out which disk is your usb should be like /dev/disk2 or something... please make sure else you'll be wiping the wrong disk and may cause issues with your system.

dd if=live.img of=/dev/rdisk2         <-this will write the image to the USB

wait... till it finishes.

Side note

I've also tested to boot via http://android-x86.org - android x86 lollipop livecd, it can boot but however after installation it seem to fail to boot, i'll check on this and revert if i have any new findings on how to get it to work. My suspect is the Intel hd graphics.