[haiku-development] Re: Installation Question

  • From: Daniel Hsu <eraserwars@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:11:37 -0700

It also seems like the .image file format was made for MAC-formatted disks
too, I don't know if it's ok to use.

-Daniel

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Daniel Hsu <eraserwars@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm starting over right now, and I'm trying to use the Anyboot Image file
> to burn to disk since the iso file made my windows not able to start up
> which forced me to reinstall windows. The file I got from the anyboot image
> is
>
> haiku-r1alpha3-anyboot.image
>
> and active@ ISO burner seems to only support .iso or .img files. I still
> burned it to disk with Active@ISO Burner, but is it safe to use this disk
> on my computer? I'm just worried because of all the problems the .iso gave
> me.
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Pete Goodeve 
> <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:52:27AM +0400, X512 wrote:
>> > On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:40:24 -0700, Daniel Hsu <eraserwars@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Also, is it possible to dual book Haiku instead of having it take
>> > > over the
>> > > entire drive? Would creating a partition for it work as described
>> > > here:
>> > > http://haiku-os.org/get-haiku/installation-guide
>> > > and would it be making Haiku boot alongside my Ubuntu and Windows on
>> > > my
>> > > computer?  [...]
>> > Yes of course. You should create partition for Haiku. Next you boot
>> > Haiku for example from flash drive, format created partition, install
>> > Haiku on it and install boot menu. Haiku has it's own boot menu
>> > ??BootManager??, GRUB isn't required.
>>
>> OTOH, if you're already using GRUB as your boot manager, and want
>> to stick with that, don't run Haiku's BootManager, as that will install
>> its own MBR instead of GRUB.  (i.e. Don't install boot menu from
>> Installer.)
>>
>>        -- Pete --
>>
>>
>

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