Probs with creating a 32bit Haiku-os usb in Haiku64

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My situation:
Using an Acer emachine intel Atom processor, 2gb, 160gb hd with Haiku-os 64bit installed.

Objective: To create a 32 Haiku-os usb stick to use to install on an Acer Aspire 1350 - which doesn’t boot from usb.

Limitation: Only have CD burning - not DVD.

Have a recent 32bit Nightly on a CD as its less than the 700MB limit, but on booting goes to: ‘Haiku Loader’ …with Can not continue booting (Boot volume is not valued.)
I have the option to choose another boot option but my 64bit usb stick is rejected as it 32 bit is required.

Solution: Would be to create a 32bit Haiku-os usb stick
…but :

Downloaded a 32bit Haiku-os ISO file.
Prepared the USB stick…using DriveSetup
Did the ‘diskimage register’ cli requirement.

But when I get onto the Installer process, the 32bit iso is ignored - not listed as an option and so creates a USB using wots on the HD including all the additional software Ive installed - resulting in a 64bit USB instead of 32bit.

Does one have to have a machine running 32bit Haiku to create a 32bit stick?

Why do the instructions state to download an iso file when its just going to use what ever is on the Haiku HD ?

Or - wot am I missing here?

LOL…and dont say, 'A newer machine !!"

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download the 32 version ISO file.
use the command dd.
does it not work?

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I get:~/Desktop> ls /dev/disk/usb
0

… dd if=haiku-r1beta4-x86_gcc2h-anyboot.iso of=/dev/disk/usb/0 bs=1M
dd: error writing ‘/dev/disk/usb/0’: Is a directory
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 2.64235 s, 0.0 kB/s
in:

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The pnth to the usb is not complete. You need something ending in “raw” (usually …/usb/0/raw)

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I just tried it again after using DriveSetup on the USB stick…but still got a 0.

Going to reboot using EasyOs to wipe the stick clean and try again…

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well…this is a puzzle.
Deleted the parition…and still get a 0
…so tried a different USB stick…and again got a 0.

Im going to go and look at other options and come back tomorrow with any findings.

Might try burning a new Nighty CD …and maybe get that working.

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well tried a new nightly…and almost got a working CD…to the point where all the icons light up, then nothing…no cursor.

seems some files are failing to load so will do another download and burn another CD.

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before burning another one maybe verify the old one is burned correctly, if it is then the error is somewhere else.

You can also verify the previous download with a shasum to see it was downloaded correctly.

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When the CD is burnt, I letting the process verify the process was completed correctly.

Im having issues with doing the sha256 check - get different numbers…but I may be doing it wrong ie:
shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/haiku-master-hrev57801-x86_gcc2h-anyboot.zip
94dc93284b76c122af22f8fef0bd2e3e96661dd7a9261294d8ef40aab6bea7de

shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/haiku-master-hrev57801-x86_gcc2h-anyboot.zip.sha256
68827f02bb3b83ada5fd44e5b3a2f3619fa48531579a2d23f4f9491b2e97c498

just tried unzipping the iso to see if that helps:
shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/haiku-master-hrev57801-x86_gcc2h-anyboot/haiku-master-hrev57801-x86_gcc2h-anyboot.iso
7e0605e8a8538d4c0f3456104666c7fb8cba981c1f741446da726d4ae6cd3203

Ive not used shasum before…seems less trouble with other checksums.

Can anyone gget a matching result ? …if so could they please tell me how…this is with a nightly 32bit download.

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This file should contain the shasum of the actual file, read it to compare it with the returned sum of the other file.

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Im not sure how I open that…or do I just remove the sha256 from the name, making it a zip file ?

aha - using an old iMac for downloads, and had to install required software…and the result:
68827f02bb3b83ada5fd44e5b3a2f3619fa48531579a2d23f4f9491b2e97c498

…so the download is correct.
Next stage - copy to an old iBook to make the CD.
(By the way Ive moved on from trying to make a 32bit USB stick on a 64bit Haiku-os - just wont work…so focus is on making a bootup CD using a nightly as its less than 700mb.)