[openbeos] Re: Booting from Image file

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:13:13 +0100 CET

> Hi,
> 
> Can Haiku do the old BeOS trick of running out of an image file 
> stored
> on a FAT32 drive? I've had to replace one of my BFS partitions with 
> one
> for linux (yeeurk) for a project.
> 

Not yet.
I started adding it to the bootloader but never finished.

> Thinking about it now, I suppose I could use the partition for Haiku 
> and
> have my R5 as an image. Can bootman load BeOS from the image in a
> multiboot environment?

Never found a way to do it. You have to have a real partition with 
zbeos and stop it and select the image file from here.

François.

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