[openbeos] Re: installing haiku from linux

"Bolesaw Kulbabiski" <bolekk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Please clarify one thing, when I install haiku on a partition from linux
> using
> 
> HAIKU_INSTALL_DIR=dir jam install-haiku
> 
> this 'dir' points to a device (/dev/sda3) or to a mount point (e.g.
> /mnt/haiku) ?
> Should I previously format this partition to BeFS ? (and mount it ?)

The "install" stuff only works from BeOS. Since Linux does not support writing 
to BFS volumes, you need to configure your build a bit differently, for example 
like this:

HAIKU_IMAGE_NAME        = sda3 ;
HAIKU_IMAGE_DIR         = /dev ;

HAIKU_DONT_CLEAR_IMAGE = 1 ;

The latter make the whole thing not too slow, but all contents of the volume 
are 
lost with every build.
You can still update selected parts of the existing image (or partition) by 
using 
ie. "jam update-image libbe.so" to update libbe.so only, and leave the rest 
untouched.

Bye,
   Axel.


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