Has anyone sucessfully made a boot CD for BeOS R5 pe? Many of the computers I encounter don’t seem to have the antiquated 3.5" floopy disk drive and having a boot CD would make it easier to show BeOS to people. Therefore allowing me to spread the word of BeOS/Haiku further 
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I’m not trying to make a live CD, I just want to have a CD that will function like the boot disk. Although I still might include the install files on the CD just for convinence.
Has anyone sucessfully made a boot CD for BeOS R5 pe? Many of the computers I encounter don't seem to have the antiquated 3.5" floopy disk drive and having a boot CD would make it easier to show BeOS to people. Therefore allowing me to spread the word of BeOS/Haiku further :D .I’m not trying to make a live CD, I just want to have a CD that will function like the boot disk. Although I still might include the install files on the CD just for convinence.
Just to be clear, You’re referring to a bootable CD that loads PE out of an “image file” on a FAT partition?
Most people don’t actually use PE that way anymore - and they’ll install R5 PE to a separate partition using either BeOS MAX edition, or Developer Edition which come with an installer that is capable of doing this.
Yes, basicly thats what I would like to do. Mostly so I can show people BeOS without actually having to do a complete install on a BFS. Though still putting the ~500mb file on the normal partition.(500mb seems very small today for most people, considering even the cheapest computers come with 20gb HDs in recent times)
i haven’t tried it. fwiw, a boot archive is at http://mmadia.zelect.org
also, just to note, BeOS inside image.be may not work on the newest NTFS partitions.
also, just to note, BeOS inside image.be may not work on the newest NTFS partitions.
I believe I have tried this configuration and had no luck with it in fact… You’ll have to use a FAT32 partition I think… and if you install on a Win9x system, you can actually reboot into PE without a boot disk.
If I remember correctly, the various bootable CD versions of BeOS that are floating around are creating by burning the floppy.img and image.be files from the C:\BEOS directory as two separate data tracks on a cd. As in, those files would be burned as ISO files, except they aren’t exactly ISO. I know Phosphuros used to have a .cue file somewhere that does it.
This gives you the possibility to install your BeOS5 PE on your computer, install all of the drivers that have been created in the last 5 years, and then when you reboot back into Windows, burn that image as your LiveCD.
That should help you out a bit, I think.
–Walter Huf–