Old PCs cannot install Windows 11. I think this will be an opportunity for Haiku to promote the operating system to users, and I also tried to download Haiku to experience it, but when I downloaded it and installed it from Windows 10, it didn’t work. If I installed it on USB, it would be very inconvenient and ordinary users wouldn’t know how to install it. Can it be installed directly from Windows 10?
Windows will not be able to reformat the drive it is installed upon. So the answer is: no, you’ll have to install from install media like a thumb drive or DVD-ROM.
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Ahoy @rik6789 ,
Seems you are not familiar with
OS installations - you may mean it that as “ordinary users”.
It is not a problem at all - except if you want to install operating system(s) alone,
without knowledge or proper help.
Well, some decades ago such users were lesser than nowadays, but
if you have intent to learn new things
or have enough money to pay for others to do for you
it is easy to jump that.
So let’s see the learning curve …
Before I would say I have a good news for you …
I have a slightly bad news before.
In case operating systems,
what you can download as file to install the OS of it – those files mostly are
so called
image file
or a
bootable/installable image.
This is because how the OS installers were distributed.
In the '90s, last century, the floppy was replaced with optical media, CD first, then later DVDs as the installers were more bigger like e.g. 5-7 CDs.
The CD and DVD drivers made available the usage the writable media
and cheap discs besides internet made available to create your own installable medium. This way nowadays we do not go for a phisycal media, into a shop, to get an OS, but download the image file.
And, of course, Open Source traditionally used internet to distribute the installers - now every players of the IT industry/community do it that way.
Well, back to image files :
those are exact copies of a bootable/installable medium’s content - it is rather a bootable , than simply an executable binary file.
Generally it must be write onto a bootable medium like CD, DVD or USB thimbdrive.
From that written medium you can install the new OS - by booting of it,
=> selecting usage mode
Live - you can do probations - the OS loads into RAM memory and you can run the installed SW from the installer medium
Install - it starts the installer
=> and then select scenarios of installments :
→ by replacing the existing OS
→ install besides the existing OS,
→ etc.
In this case you must know disk partitioning, configure BIOS or UEFI BIOS boot order, partitioning the disk, how to write the image onto optical discs and / or USB storage, etc. …
BUT
as previously I had written above … I have a good news for you !..
If you install a hypervisor - or more known as : a virtual machine software - like VirtualBOX
you can simply use the image file from your Windos harddisk/SSD partition.
Download/install the proper VirtualBOX software, switch on in your BIOS or UEFI BIOS the appropriate HW support that provide your Intel or AMD system you have.
Create a virtual machine with VBox, and boot Haiku from the the image ISO and install it onto virtual machine, you created for.
You can watch Chris Barnatt’s previous week tutorial YT video about
Running Linux in Windows: Learn Linux in a Virtual Machine
In case Haiku the steps are the same - one exception.
If I know well, when you set OS type in VirtualBOX
you should select
“Other OS” or similar ( it was at the end of the list earlier when I used VBox)
instead of "Linux 64.bit
as Haiku (still) may not on the list.
If you insist to install it on bare metall, besides your Windows,
Haiku dokuments can help in it
Or you can watch many videos about it on Youtube - but I warn you … some of them - about Haiku - full sucks as the one who tries to do it … had not took the chance to read the Haiku document above I’ve linked for you.
I recommended VirtualBOX, as within Haiku you can install Vbox guest additions, and after that you can flalessly leave Vbox machine window and in the opposite - get in as well.
~> pkgman search virtualbox_guest
Status Name Description
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
THIS ONE--> virtualbox_guest_additions VirtualBox kernel modules and user-space tools for Haiku guests
virtualbox_guest_additions_source VirtualBox kernel modules and user-space tools for Haiku guests (source files)
~>
pkgman install virtualbox_guest_additions
will do it for ya’ on Haiku.
Good luck to install Haiku onto virtual machine or bare metal.
Yepp one last warn or hint - if you want to use 64 bit Haiku … you should download / install 64 bit VirtualBOX … on 64 bit Windows
Ok, it seems too much time lasted csince I last used Vbox , now only one installer exists, so that one probably 64 bit or contains both.
Well possibly Win10 64 bit only - I had avoided if I could - I just poked on my friends’ machines if they asked for - I am not familiar with.
Once again
Good luck !.. and Bon voyage - as a Haikunaut !..
EDITs : fixed typos , added supplementals for better understandings.
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Read this tutorial for USB install:
Hello and welcome. No, there is no installer in Windows, or anything like that.
To install Haiku, you need to burn the image into a DVD or USB drive, and boot from it.
In the following link, there are some useful information about how to install Haiku:
grab a usb, download the iso file (x64) from the main site, download rufus. I think domain is rufus.net. Flash the iso to the usb via rufus. Open it with your PC’s bios (just keep pressing F12 and choose USB). Follow instructions listed here: UEFI Booting Haiku | Haiku Project Remember, Haiku isn’t an extension of windows but a whole new OS. It will delete EVERY file on Windows