[Matt Devo]

I already have my Chromebox up and running with OpenELEC 6.0.0 (not exactly sure on the version but I know it's 6.x) running Kodi 15.2. I don't want to harm that install and was wanting to play with Kodi 17 on this same hardware and this got me to looking into booting OpenELEC/Kodi 17 from a USB thumb drive to test things out. To piggy back off the existing talk about trying out Kodi 17 on a Chromebox, do I have this right:

1) Download the OpenELEC disc image from: http://openelec.tv/get-openelec

2) Burn the disc image with Imagewriter to USB thumb drive

3) To get Kodi 17 on there, grab a .tar nightly build from Milhouses: http://milhouse.openelec.tv/builds/master/Generic/, extract the KERNEL and SYSTEM files from the target directory, and overwrite the ones in the root of the USB folder

4) Boot the Chromebox and press ESC to select the USB drive and after it boots the installer, install to a 2nd USB stick

5) Reboot and boot the 2nd USB stick

Just wanted to get all my ducks in a row so when I get some tonight, I can give it a go.

Thanks

see corrections above.

Hi i'm new

i have wdlive tv but is getting slow, i have kodi on my pc and like to change the wdlive tv for a Chromebox with kodi have one question can i use like a server have HD connected and share to my other devices xbox, roku, pc on the network ?

i saw this on CHROMEBOX-M004U for $150 should i invest more for the 8gb or a new model ?

thanks for all the help

while you certainly can have the Chromebox act as a server for the other devices, since you have multiple hard drives, sounds like you would be best served by a small NAS instead, one which could run a DLNA server (like Emby, or Plex) and transcode all your content into the formats required for each of the devices. While OpenELEC will automatically create a SMB network share for each connected drive, as previously mentioned, your other devices may not be able to read those shares directly.