I have made a new FAT32 partition, onto which I installed BeOS 5 PE (inside an 512mb image), but since I have Windows XP, I have to boot via a floppy, but it doesnt work. It says during boot up that it can’t find any drive with BeOS installed. Any known issues about this?
I have also tried BeOS Max 3 (and the very same cd works on another computer) but I can’t install becuase the mouse doesn’t respond (and it seems I can’t navigate with keyboard only). I have a wireless mouse+keyboard, and the mouse chord is connected via a USB-PS2 converter. For the motherboard, it should be just a normal PS2 mouse, I think.
I don’t have another ‘real’ PS2 mouse to test with either.
My final goal is to just install any type of BeOS installation and then try out Haiku, changing kit by kit… just checking the progress. But now I don’t know how to even complete step 1.
I have made a new FAT32 partition, onto which I installed BeOS 5 PE (inside an 512mb image), but since I have Windows XP, I have to boot via a floppy, but it doesnt work. It says during boot up that it can't find any drive with BeOS installed. Any known issues about this?
I have also tried BeOS Max 3 (and the very same cd works on another computer) but I can’t install becuase the mouse doesn’t respond (and it seems I can’t navigate with keyboard only). I have a wireless mouse+keyboard, and the mouse chord is connected via a USB-PS2 converter. For the motherboard, it should be just a normal PS2 mouse, I think.
I don’t have another ‘real’ PS2 mouse to test with either.
My final goal is to just install any type of BeOS installation and then try out Haiku, changing kit by kit… just checking the progress. But now I don’t know how to even complete step 1.
Anyone got any ideas?
Probably an issue with newer IDE controllers that R5 PE couldn’t use. There is an IDE replacement driver that solves this, but you’ll have to grab another boot floppy image from somewhere…
Also, joel, are you aware that there are several places from which you can download a complete Haiku installation to try out?
There’s Sikosis’ Build Factory and Philip Schmid’s site, and then the site in my signature that mirrors both of those; only HDD images are available, but it’s fairly trivial to install them onto real hardware or–even easier–run them with an emulator like Qemu or VMware.
If you simply want to get the latest of Haiku and check out the progression, that might be your best option. (Unless you’ve got a reason to run the Haiku servers on BeOS.)
Edit: I say all of this because I’ve been trying to get R5 running too, but I’ve found it’s much much easier to run Haiku than R5 on my newer hardware, LOL. I’m currently building a machine made for R5, as I haven’t used BeOS in sooo long I figure I might as well setup a dedicated machine for it since I’ve been having so many problems getting it running on my “regular” (i.e. day-to-day) workstations.
Nice, thanks alot. I am burning the BeOS Developer release right now, gonna check that out first, but then im gonna try those.
That’s also a good idea to run it in an emulator, why didn’t I think of that. =)
I’ve been testing haiku in the free vmware player. It runs really really fast on my athlon xp 3200+ with 1gb ram. You can go to http://www.haikuhost.com and download a recent build from Philipp Schmid and there is also a .vmx file that you can get which is needed as the config file for the vmware player, which is also linked at that website.
Edit: I say all of this because I've been trying to get R5 running too, but I've found it's much much easier to run Haiku than R5 on my newer hardware, LOL. I'm currently building a machine made for R5, as I haven't used BeOS in sooo long I figure I might as well setup a dedicated machine for it since I've been having so many problems getting it running on my "regular" (i.e. day-to-day) workstations.
How do you install Haiku without R5 though? That’s my problem, neither Zeta nor R5 will boot on my Thinkpad, so I’m stuck with VMWare Player.
How do you install Haiku without R5 though? That's my problem, neither Zeta nor R5 will boot on my Thinkpad, so I'm stuck with VMWare Player.
Zeta, R5 or Haiku won't boot on my vaio laptop.. But I installed Haiku by vmware. When you create a new virtual hard drive select "Use a physical disk" and set it to use the whole disk where you want to install Haiku.
I then used BeOS install cd to creat BFS partition to the disk and then started BeOS installed to VMware…
