Just got a Haiku build running on my Dell Mini9. It boots up quick from USB stick and runs at the native rezzo of 1024x600. Looks sweet. Doesn’t see my networking, and I’m not seeing any sounds to choose from. I’ll see about getting some stuff on USB stick to do music and such.
Haven’t really kept up, so it’s nice to see it works on this new piece of equipment.
Enjoy!
Looks good.
I have Haiku natively installed on a logical partition on an Asus EeePC 901 and ethernet and sounds work fine.
As I posted in another thread, I’m having a problem with videos so it would be interesting to know if you can play videos in Haiku on your netbook which I understand has a very similar graphics card (Intel 950GM ?).
BTW, your boot time is not fast (from your video) as may be expected from a pendrive. Mine boots fully from a 400MB logical partition in just 12 seconds. If boot time is important to you, it’s worthwhile giving up 400 MB of HD space.
That’s what sucks about the mini9. I only have a 16GB SSD and it’s setup for OSX at the moment. Since I have to do weird partition tricks and use a fame EFI partition, it’s a pain in the butt to set it up for dual boot. I’d love to throw a 64GB SSD in here, but it’s pretty pricey.
If I didn’t use this thing for my main work machine, I’d throw Haiku on it, no probs as it’s a perfect machine for just dinking around.
And yes, the USB flash drive I used is slow, I know, but it’s fast for an OS to boot from, as I’ve run Fedora and Ubuntu from it as well and they are slowwwwwwww from that particular stick. I use that stick as it’s my 4GB and seems to be the right size to mess with OSes. My 16GB stick is even slower.
Yes, graphics-wise running an Intel GMA 950. The newer Mini9’s are using a GMA 500.
Hi,
I also have a Dell mini 9 as my main Haiku computer.
In order to get sound, just install Open Sound System on Haikuware
http://www.haikuware.com/view-details/drivers/audio/open-sound-system-oss
It is working fine on mine.
Have Fun
[quote=Kancept]I only have a 16GB SSD and it’s setup for OSX at the moment. Since I have to do weird partition tricks and use a fame EFI partition, it’s a pain in the butt to set it up for dual boot.
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Actually, I was able to setup my C2D MacBook for multiboot very easily. I used rEFIt as the boot manager and Gparted to do all the partitioning.
I don’t see any reason why you can’t install Haiku to a small partition like this. I should mention however that, although I was very easily able to install Haiku natively on my MacBook, I couldn’t get it to boot due to, I believe, hardware incompatibility issues. Nevertheless, you don’t appear to have these problems on your DellMini
The main issue is space. There isn’t much room on the SSD after I get all my utilities I use for onsite use and such installed. Bossman should be ordering 64GB SSDs for us this coming month, so I’ll have enough room then…
Oh yeah, how did you get networking going on your mini9? Without networking or some other way to mount filesystems, I can’t get things TO the Haiku system. I tried a USB stick and it didn’t read it, otherwise, that’d be fine.
Actually, my netbook is an Asus EeePC 901. Another contributor to this thread has a Dell Mini 9 (Eddy Derick).
However, in looking at the specs for your machine, it seems it doesn’t have an ethernet card, only wireless. In that case, I think you’re out of luck as Haiku doesn’t support wifi right now.
Maybe you’d be better off running Haiku as a VM so that you can bridge to the wifi of your main OS.
My EeePC has an Attansic ethernet card for which a Haiku driver was developed only a couple of months ago.
Before that, I had the same problem as you in that I couldn’t readily get stuff onto my Haiku partition.
However, Haiku has an excellent “mount” command (right-click on Desktop) which allows you to very easily mount another partition within Haiku and then drag files/folders from the other partition to Haiku.
I’ve never tried this with OS X but it works perfectly with various Linux distros.
One thing I noticed with USB sticks. Not all USB sticks are the same.
I THINK part of the issue is the BIOS not recognising small USB sticks as hard drives. I had a BIOS with a setting to force USB drives < 800Mb as Hard drives.
Anyway, I had trouble booting Haiku on my Asus Eee PC B202 until I got a 4Gb USB stick. My other 2 USB sticks did not work.
This was not a Haiku issue, it was a BIOS issue.
In fact my network has no problem.
I am obviously using the ethernet connection.
I just noticed that the cable has to be plugged before boot.
Otherwise it works fine.
Check that you have the /dev/net/rtl81xx/0 device.
I do have a hardline jack on my Mini9. Uses some broadcom chipset. I’ll try jacking in before I boot it up. It does list the rtl NIC when I check it.
As for mounting, BeOS has always had that, and I did try to use it to mount another USB stick I had. I have a bunch of them ranging from 512MB to 16GB. I tried MacOSX formatted ones (didn’t think they’d work) and Fat32, but nogo. I’ll play more this weekend. I’m prepping to move, so don’t know what I’ll be able to do this week.
I’m on it though! Looking forward to getting it going!
[quote=Kancept]
As for mounting, BeOS has always had that, and I did try to use it to mount another USB stick I had. [/quote]
I’m unclear as to why you’re worried about mounting a usb-key. If your sole aim is to get stuff transferred to your Haiku usb-key in the absence of an Internet connection, why can you not just download whatever you want to transfer onto your OS X partition, mount that partition in Haiku and drag your stuff over.
I have frequently done a more limited version of this (Linux partition >> Haiku partition) which, however, doesn’t involve either usb-keys or OS X.
But, I’d love to know if it works in your case.
Has anyone tried already to install haiku on a HP mini 1000. I just want to make sure before buying it.
Haiku does not mount my OSX partitions (HFS+). IIRC BeOS never did mount any of the HFS+ formatted things back in the day, either. HFS, did work back in the day IIRC. Since I’m moving this coming week, I’ll be havin’ to take my BeBox out of storage. Wish Haiku did PPC, then that’d be the platform I dedicate for testing it…
[quote=Eddy]I just noticed that the cable has to be plugged before boot.
Otherwise it works fine.[/quote]
Thanks, working fine here…so now I have connectivity and can make use of it!
[quote=dlmcpaul]One thing I noticed with USB sticks. Not all USB sticks are the same.
I THINK part of the issue is the BIOS not recognising small USB sticks as hard drives. I had a BIOS with a setting to force USB drives < 800Mb as Hard drives.
Anyway, I had trouble booting Haiku on my Asus Eee PC B202 until I got a 4Gb USB stick. My other 2 USB sticks did not work.
This was not a Haiku issue, it was a BIOS issue.[/quote]
Interesting quirk. I read around here how the opposite was sometimes the case (putting Haiku images onto a thumbdrive that were too big caused some problems)… so I tried it with a 512MB thumbdrive I had and booted Haiku onto my Aspire One. I tried it on two others, 1GB and 2GB. The 1GB didn’t work, the 2GB worked fine. (It was faster than the 512MB as well)… Seems to vary between thumbdrives as well.
Lenovo Ideapad S10S here,
Too bad I don’t have that much luck. Boot process stops on the debugger screen which tells me that there was a problem with *HCI/USB.
I’m just waiting patiently for this error to be adressed in - I hope - some near future.
Not too long ago, I installed Haiku on the empty stock 4GB SSD that came with my Mini 9. (I finally found a use for it.)
Just a few notes using R1 Alpha 2:
The Mini doesn’t seem to power off entirely. (The screen goes black, but the power light stays on. I had a usb flash drive plugged in and the light on it was also still on. I will keep looking to see if I just don’t need to give the computer a few more seconds to turn off entirely.)
I tried to install Haiku which was on 1 USB drive to the SSD (when it was still in its USB enclosure). There were some errors. kdebug even came up on the screen. (Typing ‘exit’ made it go away, but a few moments later, it would open again.) The quickest solution was to put the SSD back in the computer and try the install again.
I will spend some more time with it later. (RIght now, it’s off to bed I go.) : )
