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title Getting Chromebook Edition
description Getting started with installing Ultramarine Chromebook Edition

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Minimum System Requirements

1GB RAM, 8GB storage, 16MB boot partition (essentially any 2017 or newer ChromeOS device). List of ChromeOS device boot partition sizes can be found here

Choosing Your Edition

Ultramarine Chromebook comes in 4 variants:

  • Plasma Edition: Our recommended edition for general use and a community favorite with an Ultramarine twist. Simple defaults and wide-ranging customizations.
  • Xfce Edition: A lightweight and elegant experience designed to help you squeeze the most out of your device, or revive an old one.
  • Budgie Edition: A familiar and stylish experience with a bit of flair.
  • GNOME Edition: A simple, elegant, and intuitive desktop with a large ecosystem of apps and extensions.

Ultramarine for Chromebooks is distributed with image files available for download from our website.

Fyra Labs cannot guarantee the safety or quality of images downloaded from sites other than our website or FOSSTorrents

Verifying the Safety of an Ultramarine ISO (Recommended)

Ultramarine ISO images have a matching CHECKSUM file that can be checked against the image itself.

They can be downloaded by clicking the View Checksum button on the download page.

Verifying the Checksum on Linux and macOS

You can use the following commands to check the integrity of the images:

sha256sum -b /path/to/ultramarine.img # Generate the checksum for the image
cat /path/to/CHECKSUM # Check the checksum

# Now you can compare the checksum

Verifying the Checksum on ChromeOS

You can use the ChromeOS Linux Container to verify the image on ChromeOS

sha256sum -b /path/to/ultramarine.img # Generate the checksum for the image
cat /path/to/CHECKSUM # Check the checksum

# Now you can compare the checksum

Verifying the Checksum on Windows

In Powershell, run this command:

CertUtil -hashfile PATH\TO\ULTRAMARINE.ISO SHA256
# Open the CHECKSUM file with Notepad and compare the checksum

Creating the Installer on Windows, macOS, or Linux

Download balenaEtcher to create a bootable media from the img image.

After downloading Ultramarine Chromebook, select the img file, a device to use for the installer, and click flash.

Creating the installer on ChromeOS

Download the Chromebook Recovery Utility extension from the Chrome Web Store

  1. Download the Ultramarine Chromebook image
  2. Navigate to the image, and change the '.img' to '.bin'
  3. Open the Chromebook Recovery Utility extension
  4. Click the 'settings' icon in the top right corner, and select 'Use Local Image'
  5. Navigate to and select your Ultramarine Chromebook .bin image, and select 'OPEN'
  6. Insert and select the instalation media you would like to use under the dropdown
  7. Select 'Continue'
  8. Disregard the warning, then press 'Create now'

Next Up: Installing →

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