Can a BeBox run BeOS 5.0.3?

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?

See: How to install BeOS on a BeBox

See: @memsom (had BeOS R5 running on a 66-Mhz BeBox)

Yes I can confirm it works with R5.0.3 with the PR2 boot ROM or greater.

It doesn’t run well though. It is quite slow.

PR2 runs well and R4.52 runs better than R5.

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.

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