1) You should not do this unless you have enough free space (over 500GB)
2) Unless you have one of the faster chromebooks it's going to be miserably slow.
3) Which Chromebook do you have? You downloaded the x86_64 version. Some chromebooks are not x86 based.
-Dave
1) I am going to get some external SSD storage to store the bitcoin blockchain on.
2) My Chromebook is pretty new, bought it on amazon late last year.
3) I have the Chromebook Octopus. I looked up the specs for the processor and found that I am running an Intel x86 64bit processor on this Chromebook.