[openbeos] Re: distropia

"Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You can not currently burn a Haiku CD, AFAIK.

Exactly, this will take a while, as it's pretty low on the priority 
list right now :-)

> 2. Get the source, the tools and use the 'makehdimage' script on a 
> spare BFS partition to populate it with a rudimentary bootable Haiku. 
> If you're lucky, you'll see the Haiku boot screen, and you're dropped 
> in a shell where you can actually do a few things. (much cooler than 
> the boot floppy) I don't think the app_server is there yet, (the 
> screen 
> is at 60Hz), but it's still way cool.

Oh, and don't forget to use either the "shutdown -rq" command, or 
"sync" regularly, so that the partition and your data isn't corrupted - 
there are still some basic services missing :-)
BTW, the vesa kernel settings file is already taken into account in 
case you don't like the standard 800x600, although it's currently 
ignoring the depth and always uses 8 bit as the boot image then looks 
correct :)

> For some reason my build doesn't boot all the way to the shell, on my 
> hardware, but I got an image from 'agentmumu' that does boot all the 
> way, and it is indeed exciting.

You need the latest GCC (2.95.3-beos-041202) from Oliver in order to 
make a working image; the previous version doesn't seem to work right.

Bye,
   Axel.

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