Hi,
i want to try Haiku on a usb. Following instructions for windows, i get error on the path, it says “unknown command” and then goes the path. I have tryed with quotes, without, and i get the same… Could someone help me ?
Thank You!
n0de.
//-Solved, works.
Now the new problem is:
When i start booting from usb, HAIKU boot screen shows up, then first three icons/images gets colorful, and then it stops. It bugs on that boot screen and nothing happens, so wtf ?
n0de.
AFAIK, there are two ways:
per the download page, if you select the ‘raw’ image, it is alleged to make a bootable USB. I have not tried this, but surmise that ‘dd’ a direct copy to the USB is the method.
What I am doing instead - to an old 1 GB SanDisk Cruzer - is dld’ing the iso, burning a CD, booting to the CD, selecting the Installer, partitioning the USB, initializing it as BeFS, mounting it as ‘Haiku1’, then installing from CD to USB.
‘F12’ at next boot lets me select the USB and all works well.
IOW - same procedure as I use for a HDD install, except that on a multi-boot HDD, I first slice it into 4 primary partitions, and install MBR and *BSD Boot Manager with a FreeBSD or DragonFlyBSD install CD. Haiku, and its boot blocks, are installed into one of the partitions. This works well even on ‘many HDD’ setups.
Deciding which method works best for you depends on what you have for USB-attached media, how the BIOS ‘sees’ and presents it, and how the Haiku Installer presents it.
‘Windows’ doesn’t enter the equation unless you are sharing the USB device with it 9bad idea, generally).
If so, you may need to edit a Windows file. ntldr.conf or some such (I am not abused by Windows, so that’s a dim memory).
Try this guide :
http://www.haiku-os.org/guides/making_haiku_usb_stick
This is the way I do it my self:
http://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/how_to_install_haiku_to_usb_flash_drive_from_windows
The same as the last one but with a GUI:
http://www.modeen.se/HaikuOnAstick.htm
This one needs the latest version of .NET installed on your windows computer, and help for it can be found at http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/haiku-on-a-stick.
After writing that above, I now think you are already using the dd for windows solution.
If this is the case, put the dd software and your haiku image on your desktop (not in a folder), open up cmd (start > run, and then enter “cmd”). enter “cd desktop”. then “dd --list --filter=removable”. and then continue with whatever it says on the ~/making_haiku_usb_stick page.
After writing that above, I now think you are already using the dd for windows solution.
If this is the case, put the dd software and your haiku image on your desktop (not in a folder), open up cmd (start > run, and then enter “cmd”). enter “cd desktop”. then “dd --list --filter=removable”. and then continue with whatever it says on the ~/making_haiku_usb_stick page.[/quote]
Thank you 
Haven’t tryed anything else but this, and it worked Briliant, I haven’t thought of this myself (obviously).
n0de
EDIT: huh, but there is another problem. When i start booting from usb, HAIKU boot screen shows up, then first three icons/images gets colorful, and then it stops. It bugs on that boot screen and nothing happens, so wtf ?
Try to enable the on-screen debug output, it should give you more info on what is going wrong.
You can find out how to do this here: http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/bootloader.html