Installing Haiku to same USB LiveBoot drive – Guide

Many of us use large usb drives (16GB and above capacity usb sticks/SD cards) for creating Haiku boot disk, this guide is for installing Haiku to the remaining free space on these drives. This method is useful for testing new hardware or introducing Haiku to friends.

Note:

  • Have tested with Haiku R1/beta5 64bit, on Laptops and Desktops systems that only have UEFI.
  • I used Linux Mint “USB Image Writer” to create Haiku boot disk.

Once booted from LiveBoot.

1, Open DriveSetup, Select empty space on your liveboot usb drive and create Partition.


Partition Type: Be File System
Select - Active Partition.

2, Format the newly created Be Partition to Be File system.

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Haiku-006

Set Volume name - i have used “Haiku-USB”, select Blocksize “Recommended” and “Enable query support”

3, Open HaikuInstaller and install onto newly formatted Be File System(“Haiku-USB”) on your LiveBoot drive and install.

Haiku-Installer

Haiku_installation-Complete

4, Once Installation is completed, reboot with LiveBoot drive plugged-in and hit “space bar” for boot loader options.

5, Select “Haiku-USB” from bootloader menu “Select volume/state” and hit “continue booting”.

You may delete the original liveboot partition(1.5GB) if your are not planning to install Haiku on other systems. If not deleted, you’ll have to hit “space bar” for boot loader options every time the system is rebooted.

Hope this helps.

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Very nice work/tutorial!
Great to have user like you, make HAIKU work for some new user!
Thank you very much for your time invested in this tutorial!

You can also send us your tutorials, besly is always happy to receive new contributions. And they are centrally accessible and can be found via a menu.

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What is the ideal format for tutorial ?. HTML or LibreOffice writer or pdf ?.

Someone should correct BeSly url on Software Sites | Haiku Project
BeSly Repo is mapped to https://www.software.besly.de/ which isn’t loading.

Done. The right URL is https://software.besly.de/

I Write the Similar thing in Chinese website before。

but, it have no auto uefi-mode。

so pity。

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