Haiku on intel mac

kvdman · April 18, 2006, 1:20am

hi there,

basically with bootcamp most x86 distros should work onn the new macs.

i tried booting zeta 1.1 but it gets stuck on the disk icon, i’m assuming thats because theres no sata driver.

are there any sata drivers for haiku?

could anyone provide a howto to install haiku or zeta on an intel mac?

thnx!

Sikosis · April 18, 2006, 2:54am

don’t know if I’ll try it on my mini as mine is attached to my TV and it’s used as our media centre … I think the missus would kill me if it was out of action for a few days

kvdman · April 18, 2006, 3:24am

fair enough!

Sikosis · April 21, 2006, 5:55am

though I have asked on the Parallel’s forum about running BeOS/Haiku on the mac … but it’s currently not supported. They did say that BeOS would be in the v3 engine …

Meanwhile · April 21, 2006, 7:51am

Here’s somebody trying to do the same thing (no success yet):

http://www.123macmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=32442&highlight=#32442

Sikosis · April 23, 2006, 3:03am

hrmmm … i wonder if you can fdisk the partition to be FAT32, so the BeOS installer will recognize it and let you install on it …

that’s the trick you have to do to install BeOS on Virtual PC 8)

Polari · September 26, 2006, 10:05am

Any progress on this front? I want to see how Haiku runs on a Core Duo. I see there’s a SATA driver being developed, is it for the same chipset that Apple uses or a different one?

ar1000 · September 26, 2006, 8:29pm

I have used Haiku in parallels, just resize the disk image with the resize tool and change its extension. Parallels works just fine.

noisetonepause · September 28, 2006, 1:14pm

Works in QEMU on PPC Macs as well… albeit slowly.

Sikosis · September 28, 2006, 11:53pm

yeh I can confirm that … I’ve run it a couple of times … I’ve got a script that downloads the latest and launches QEMU with it.

But I mainly use real hardware or VMWare on my XP box. Can’t wait til VMWare come across to the Mac platform … that’ll make things interesting …

Clebin · October 3, 2006, 4:37pm

Sikosis wrote:

yeh I can confirm that ... I've run it a couple of times ... I've got a script that downloads the latest and launches QEMU with it.
But I mainly use real hardware or VMWare on my XP box. Can’t wait til VMWare come across to the Mac platform … that’ll make things interesting …

As ar1000 says, it works nicely in Parallels. Get the image, rename it .hdd, convert it using the disk tool and resize it to give Haiku some breathing space. There’s a 15-day trial of Parallels if you think it’s worth the $79.99 asking price.