

Be careful to choose the correct one.īy choosing "Auto Update" under the "Advanced options", the installer could update an older installation automatically. If you have multiple hard drives, the installer will let you choose which one to use. The installer will prompt you to confirm:Īfter you select 'Yes', the installer will erase the whole content of the hard disk, partition and install Android-x86 to it. If you want to use Android-x86 as the only OS in your device, you may choose "Auto Installation" under the "Advanced options". Select the one you want to upgrade, or choose to install to a new folder. If there are multiple older versions in the same partition, the installer will ask which version to upgrade: Select 'No' to install the new version to a new directory and keep the older installation untouched. The installer will prompt if you'd like to upgrade it: Just select the partition containing the older installation. You may upgrade an older Android-x86 installation by the installer. Congratulations! Now you can run Andrond-x86 directly, or you can reboot and run it:

If you choose to format the partition, you will see a warning like below.Note the type you chose must match the partition id, or the boot loader will fail to boot. Otherwise, choose a filesystem type to format. If the partition is formatted, you may choose 'Do not re-format' to keep existing data. Android-x86 can co-exist with other operating system or data in the chosen partition.If the target drive is not shown, try 'Detect devices'. Note you can install Android-x86 to an external disk like USB drive. You can choose an existing partition to install Android-x86, or you can create or modify partitions by choosing 'Create/Modify partitions'. After seconds of booting, you will see a partition selection dialog.Boot from the Android-x86 installation CD/USB, choose the 'Install Android-x86 to harddisk' item, as shown below:.Burn the iso image to cdrom, or create a bootable USB disk (recommended).Usually you should just use the latest image. Download an iso image from a mirror site.See the Advanced Section for more details. In particular, you can install Android-x86 to an NTFS filesystem to co-exist with Windows.

We have implemented a text-based easy installer to help install Android-x86 to a hard drive.
