[haiku] Re: Installing Haiku in Acer Aspire One (was [haiku-development] Re: Kernel APM function access?)
- From: Cabral Bandeira <root@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:47:56 -0200
Haiku install on MacBook?
Or not support EFI?
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Jorge G. Mare <jorge.g.mare@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Thanks for the reply. Moving this one to the Haiku list.
>
> See comment below.
>
> kallisti5 wrote:
> > I installed Haiku on the Acer following the steps below (mine is the HDD
> > version, but the same steps should work for the SDD version)
> >
> > These instructions use a linux machine extensively so having one is
> > advised/
> >
> >
> > Steps 1-3 are only needed because the partition manager does not really
> let
> > you manage partitions yet ;) Steps 10-11 are needed because makebootable
> > was broken for the longest time in the installer and I don't trust it :)
> >
> > 1) Crate a Gparted boot cd or usb stick
> > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/liveusb.php
> > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
> >
> > 2) boot the system and partition the drive to have an empty partition for
> > Haiku (i use partid 'eb' for BeOS)
> >
>
> I have gone as far as booting the Gparted liveCD and creating an empty
> partition.
>
> However, I seem to be unable to find the way to set the partid to 'eb'.
> Can you be more specific?
>
> I am leaving the rest of your post quoted below, as others may benefit
> from it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jorge
>
> > 3) Shut the system down.
> >
> > 4) dd the latest uncompressed pre-alpha drive image to a USB memory stick
> > from a linux/UNIX machine
> > http://haiku-files.org/raw/index.php
> > dd if=haiku-alpha.image of=/dev/USBSTICKDRIVE bs=1024
> >
> > 5) Boot the Acer with the Haiku USB stick
> >
> > 6) Format the partition you created in step 2 as BeFS.
> >
> > 7) Launch the Installer located in /boot/beos/apps/
> >
> > 8) Select the partition you formatted and take note of the path (
> > /dev/dsk/ata/0/master/[0-4] )
> >
> > 9) Install the System
> >
> > 10) Unmount the destination drive on the desktop.
> >
> > 11) open a command prompt and run the following: makebootable <THE PATH
> > FROM STEP 8> to make the partition bootable.
> >
> > 12) Run bootman to install a bootloader in the MBR.
> >
> > 13) Profit (Haiku)
> >
> >
> > Lets post any replies into the Haiku mailing list not to spam
> -development.
> >
> >
> > --Alex
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
Other related posts:
