Issue 2 - Can't install on hard disk, cant compile makebootiny

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Hello, this problem is on a different system to the other one.
I’m now using my old Compaq Presario 2500.
It can’t boot from USB, has no wifi and just this week the DVD/CD ROM has become very dodgy.

Therfore I cannot get any CDs to boot at powerup. I’ve tried toinstall Haiku using the “write image to a drive” tutorial, but I can’t compile makeboottiny, required to make he partition bootable. I have no compiler installed in my existing Puppy Linux installation and the system files required to compile are too large to fit into the existing partition.

I could try the manual way to make the partition bootable, but it looks intimidating.
Is there any other way I can get a compiled version of makeboottiny?

Is there any other way I can get a compiled version of makeboottiny?

Any advice welcome. Many thanks,
Greg

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Which model 2500 do you have? I have a 2585US, I might be able to help you.

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Which OS’s can you boot on this laptop? Can you provide an output similar to listdev in Haiku? sudo dmidecode in Ubuntu is rather verbose.

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Thanks for the reply. AFAIK, it’s just a plain 2500 with a P4 chip and 80G hard drive. At least it was 80G until I accidentally deleted the DOS label once. It’s been 40G ever since :slight_smile: