[haiku-development] Re: Greetings, Earthlings.
- From: "Zenja Solaja" <solaja@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 09:53:08 +1100
Hi Michael. Considering your Mac history, I'm assuming you've got Intel Mac
hardware, and I seriously doubt that BeOS R5 will boot on modern PC hardware
with gobs of memory. Another sneaky hardware install method for the Mac
would be to grab a VMWare image, and to use one of the newer versions of
Fusion which allows mounting and writing to an actual hard disk partition.
This is how I got Haiku on a MacBookPro (sadly, unsupported hardware, but
the boot process gets quite far). Worse case scenario, you run Haiku via
Fusion for a while until the hardware issue is nailed.
What you'd need to do is to modify the vm config file so that the Haiku
image is mapped to a virtual partition (eg ide0:0), and the 'bootcamp' image
is mapped to ide1:0. Boot from the Haiku image, initialise the real
physical image as a BeFS, and copy the contents of the Haiku image to the
real partition. Restart Fusion but this time boot from the physical
partition, makebootable, and you're golden. Physically restart your Mac and
boot from the fresh Haiku partition.
Personally, I prefer the Senryu weekly images (
http://www.haikuware.com/view-details/development/app-installation/senryu-personal-edition-vmware-image-weekly)
since it adds more apps to the default haiku image.
PS - I was a bit vague with the installation details since the above process
is dangerous for people who dont know what they're doing. If you're on the
ball, you'll understand what to do.
PSS - welcome back to the BeOS world.
PSSS - seen circletimessquare or Rusty lately? :)
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