[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] akenis:
Thanks.... this is getting interesting. I travel a lot, and hate to bring my Dell PC (Please standby for updates... an hour later....). But I take it with me when I know I might need platform tools. My PC environment is working pretty well now after: using usbdeview utility to delete all previous versions of android and remnants of previous phones. The new headache this time was Windows Power Shell? Right click here didn't work for command prompt. Followed an online guide to get it partially back... lots of weird registry editing and kind of scary!

Love my Asus C302 Flip Chromebook and always wondered if I could use it for flashing. So now I've got Dev Mode and Ctr+Alt+T for a nice little shell. But it's adb is 1.0.32 version.

1. Any issues if I use 1.0.32 from chromebook shell?

One weird issue is adb doesn't work off the bat using chronos login. I can get version, but adb devices yields ????????? no permissions. I guess Chronos doesns't have permission to start server? sudo adb devices works fine.

In the process of figuring that out, I also learned that I can't su. It asks for root password and yields su: Permission Denied. I know I'm using the right password for root, it works fine in Developer console (Control+Shift+>>). But if I sudo su and use Chronos password, I end up at root! This linux is perplexing...

2. Any way you can explain why I have to sudo su instead of just su?

Edit: This kind of explains I guess https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/poking-around-your-chrome-os-device

Should I mount rootfs read/write?

I also went ahead and set up Crouton with xfce environment, xiwi, and Crouton integration extension. Works great with a xfce working in a tabbed window, copy and paste works.

4. I've downloaded the platform tools for linux.... just sitting in a folder. How can I use them from my xfce? Or do they have to be installed somehow. I've seen some guides for the full SDK, but that seems like overkill.

So now I've got Windows, crosh, developer console, and soon xfce.... So I should be totally covered right? Welcome FWUL!!! But how can I use it if I don't have Windows to burn the image to a usb!!! Kidding... but it would be nice to have in your OP, a Linux method of burning the image. I read a post somewhere about using DD command lines to do it... way above my baby linux head. xfce had a utility that failed after a half hour. Mabye Unetbootin would work with a quick tutorial from you in the OP?

So yeah.... I had to use windows rufus to burn my 16GB usb image. Next issue is how to boot from USB... both in windows and in Chromebook???? I think this would be a good reference for your OP: https://neosmart.net/wiki/boot-usb-drive/#To_access_BIOSUEFI I don't know my BIOS from my UFEI, but got it to boot on Windows.

How to boot from USB on Chromebook???? This could be the third missing link from the OP: https://www.chromium.org/a/chromium...per-information-for-chrome-os-devices/generic I finally got my C302 to boot FWUL with

sudo crossystem dev_boot_legacy=1

and reboot once to boot legacy images with Ctrl-L.

....To be continued with actual questions about FWUL, but I thought I'd share my experiences with trying to forget windows.