I have the Alpha3 Anyboot Image and want to install it on a 2gb Kingston Flash stick to try it out on my Samsung N145 JP03 Netbook (has anyone tried this yet?). But it has no CD.
I’ve also two versions of a thing called ImageWriter (some files plus an exe one - not sure which to use) - evidently Raw Write is no more.
Could I move the Haiku to a flash stick with ImageWriter on same stick to install it on another stick on the Samsung?
Did you have a look to haiku-on-a-stick? it’s a great tool !
http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/development/app-installation/haiku-on-a-stick
However, if you “dd” a disk image on your key, you will see only ~700miB on your key (the “anyboot” disk image size).
Otherwise, if you want to use all the space available on your key, you can use VmWarePlayer.
furthermore, did you read this article ?
http://www.haiku-os.org/guides/installing/making_haiku_usb_stick
I did read the install page which led me to ImageWriter. Not sure at all how to use it, but will give it try and hope it (being a Linux thing) doesn’t wipe Windows.
Not sure what VMWare is (virtual machine?) - kinda scares me that. The netbook runs Windows 7 Starter so not sure what I can do on it - trouble is the HD is inaccessible and cannot be changed or removed for an OS test (at least I can’t find anywhere on the thing to take it out).
The DD thing, if it wipes the rest of the Flash stick is no good as I would want to use the rest of the stick for other stuff. The netbook is only used to update my blog, get email and prep images for the blog (which are removed once live) - other than that any Haiku stuff not needed is deleted to save space and not have any unused resources running in the background. Everything else is run thru the browser on my own “cloud” and portal on the server.
I did try Alpha2 and liked the 15 second boot time, but had troubles with WebPositive breaking on a Javascript WYSIWYG - else loved the browser. My new editor is HTML, so hopefully should be no problem. If everything works on the flash stick, then I could switch OS’s (I realize it’s Alpha - but have successfully used Alpha2 on the road on my IBM).
I don’t know what an MBR boot code is - I’m point and click on things like this.
I just hope it will let me log on to WiFi hot spots so I can get online when I travel.
Ted, if you’re more comfortable with this using Windows, got to the Haiku USB installation page and they’ll send you to the Image Writer page.
Download the software and unarchive it. Plug in your USB stick and make a note of the drive letter that Windows assigns it, because if you install it somewhere else, it’ll overwrite that volume with the anyboot image.
Rename the anyboot image that you downloaded from the nightly builds – you’ll need to rename the anyboot image by giving it an “.img” extension, so you change the name from, say, “haiku-nightly-anyboot.image” to “haiku-nightly-anyboot.img” so that Image Writer can ‘see’ it.
Open Image Writer, and on the top you’ll see where to specify the image, so you can browse for your anyboot image and select it. Next to it you’ll see where to select your USB stick. Click “Write” and it’ll write the image to the drive. Again, make sure you’ve chosen the correct drive!
After it’s done, use Windows to unmount the USB stick, then shut down. Plug in the USB stick, and if the BIOS is set to boot from a USB device (hopefully you’ve done this already), it’ll boot into Haiku.
Then the real fun begins, eh?
VmWare player is a PC emulator (VirtualMachine). but I think you have to run it on a desktop/laptop PC
because a notebook is may be too small.
You can download it for free.
Haiku provide ready-to-run virtual machines for VmWare. Just downdoal a VMDK image instead of a anyboot one.
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The DD thing, if it wipes the rest of the Flash stick is no good as I would want to use the rest of the stick for other stuff. The netbook is only used to update my blog, get email and prep images for the blog (which are removed once live) - other than that any Haiku stuff not needed is deleted to save space and not have any unused resources running in the background. Everything else is run thru the browser on my own “cloud” and portal on the server.[/quote]
If you use ImageWriter (or haiku-on-a-stick) you can “recover” the rest of the Flash stick space: just create a second partition on the stick after you boot Haiku.
Note that if your source image is a nightly build, your bootable partition will have a very small free space so you couldn’t install anything
that’s why I suggest haiku-on-a-stick. It’s a front-end to dd and it’s quite simple to use, and since the anyboot image contains this MBR, you have noting to do!
NB : the MBR boot code is the first program that is run when you computer boot. It is located at the very beginning of the disk and its role is to find the OS loader (haiku_loader, grub, nt_loader, lilo etc…)
Many adapter are supported, but do not forget to install the firmware for your chip (it’s a legal issue)
http://haiku-os.org/docs/welcome/en/wifi.html
[quote=TedH].Not sure what VMWare is (virtual machine?) - kinda scares me that. The netbook runs Windows 7 Starter so not sure what I can do on it - trouble is the HD is inaccessible and cannot be changed or removed for an OS test (at least I can’t find anywhere on the thing to take it out).
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Try Virtual Box, its a virtual machine like VMWare, but some find it easier.
There is also a step-by-step guide for haiku which can be found here: https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/virtualizing/virtualbox
NO, Virtual box is not suitable for this type of use because the USB 2.0 is only supported in the retail version.
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Try Virtual Box, its a virtual machine like VMWare, but some find it easier.
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NO, Virtual box is not suitable for this type of use because the USB 2.0 is only supported in the retail version.[/quote]
There is no such thing as a retail version of Virtual Box.
You simply download the Virtual Box Extension Pack if you are using 4.0 and greater and you want use the closed-source components. It is just the opposite of when people had to compile the open-source version of virtual box themselves if they only wanted to use open source software.
Hi, things bit out of whack and not getting notifications. Am into hospital tomorrow for minor op. Will catch up with this later.
Looks like ImageWriter will be it.