Id like to install Haiku on an older laptop. It cant boot from USB, nor does it have a DVD drive, just a CD drive.
Is there a way to install from a CD?
I think that the nightly images still fit in a CD… if that’s the case, you could install one of those, and then either use that, or switch to the beta4 “channel” if you want.
You can get the nightlies from here: https://download.haiku-os.org/
C/dvd rw rdives are really cheep, especially if you know someone with an old used computer.
yeah you can get a USB DVD drive from Amazon for less than $25 US. I got one to finally rip all my music CDs to mp3 and it worked great.
The OP has a laptop, unless it has a drive bay module (I’ve got a DVDRW in a PIII Dell that remained compatible with much newer modules); they won’t be able to replace it with a DVD drive.
some laptops just use normal SATA connectors inside so you could extend these out - but most of these have DVD drives!
They’ve also said it doesn’t do USB boot which will include USB DVD drives - they’re the same protocol.
So its nightly image or nothing… however, I’d wonder whether the laptop is new enough to really run Haiku anyway? Modern browsers need SSE2 for instance and I don’t think there’s many P4/AthlonXP era machines with just CD.
Hi!
I vaguely remember there beeing software you can burn on cd’s to then have it boot iff the usb drive via the software on the cd… Don’t have a name for you but it may be an option if your system cant do usb boot
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Yes, plop boot manager might get you out of this situation by booting from USB even if the BIOS doesn’t support it:
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