Question about my Dual 66MHz BeBox: I have a BeOS Professional 5.0.3 CD-ROM and I’d love to install it on a partition alongside BeOS 4.5 (or just replace 4.5 altogether). However, going into the boot-menu (by holding Shift at power-on) never shows the BeOS 5.0.3 CD as a bootable option (the 4.5 CD works fine here), and I cannot select it from the Boot preference panel either.
Running the 5.0.3 installer from within 4.5 (trying to install it onto a second blank partition) results in a half-baked installation with TONS of file-copying errors. The CD is an official disc and is in perfect, non-scratched condition, so I’m not sure what to make of this.
What do I need to do to get 5.0.3 installed, or is it just not supported on this machine?
Does your drive reads cd-r discs without issues?
If so, extract the third track from the 5.0.3 disc and burn it to another disc, or use a bluescsi device.
BeOS 5 will run on that BeBox. I have the same machine and I have BeOS 5 installed on it. I kinda wish I had left BeOS 4.5 installed though because I also have a Micron PC with a Pentium II running BeOS 5.
There are 3.0, 4.0 and 4.5 images that work kicking around on archive.org.
When I still had my one I had PR2 and a lot of the DR discs and R4.5 and R5 that I owned. PR2 was the best speed wise, but there was no software really. 4.5 was better that 5.0, but you still ended up with a lack of software.