Small write up on how to install Android 4.0 ICS on a netbook or a laptop, including links to all needed files and a installation guide.

1. Android 4.0 ICS on
your laptop/netbook
Martijn van Beek
http://goo.gl/zvndF

3. What does one do with some spare hours and an old
laptop/netbook? Bring that laptop/netbook back to life and install +
Android on it of course! Why? Because you like to fiddle around with
Android, because you want to repurpose that old laptop, because
you don’t own a tablet….
 done with open source software
 lightweight operating system (will run on older hardware)
 Installation in approx. 20 minutes

5.  works with keyboard and mouse/trackpad
 Google Play Store works
 Video streaming worked (after installing the MX
videoplayer app from the Play Store, with the needed
codecs)

7. The necessities:
 an Android for PC installation file: http://goo.gl/5ALuF . I have
installed the RC2-asus_laptop.iso. Just try another version if
the first one doesn’t work.
 software to create a bootable USB-stick. I used Unetbootin
(http://goo.gl/w8jU2 ), will only work on a Windows capable PC
(I have not looked into methods for Mac)
 a netbook/mini-laptop of some sort. Mine is a
+TOSHIBA NB305-N410BL, with an +Intel Atom N450 and
1GB of Ram.
 a USB-stick (1 GB minimum)
 internet access
 a good installation guide/how to, which you will find here
http://goo.gl/QqmIo

9. Some notes:
 it seems Android can not be installed to a FAT32 formatted
partition
 once you have Android installed, I would advice you tick uncheck
the “screen auto rotate” box in the Android settings menu
 try to increase the internal storage space with a tool like Parted
Magic http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/