[haiku] Re: Getting started
- From: Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:01:57 +1200
On 21 June 2014 21:10, Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On 21 June 2014 19:46, Thomas Mueller <mueller6723@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Curiosity finally got the better of me, I downloaded the anyboot image,
>> extracted and dd'ed/installed to 4 GB USB stick.
>>
>> I gave it a spin, expecting another joke OS, but found first that it
>> responded to mouse and keyboard.
>>
>> I looked at the documentation on screen, it opened Web Positive, and I
>> subsequently found I was connected with the Internet and browsed National
>> Weather Service and other sites including webmail.
>>
>> I also explored via the Terminal, noticed it was Unix-like but much smoother
>> than NetBSD. But I noticed there was no "man" command to view online
>> man(ual) pages. So what plays the role of Unix's "man"?
>
> We do have "man", so am not sure what's going on with your system here...
I've been corrected that "man" wasn't on the Alpha4 release image. It
is, however, installed by default in the nightlies. The current
nightlies will also be more representative of the next scheduled
release.
>> Motherboard is MSI Z77 MPOWER; Ethernet chip is Realtek 8111E: FreeBSD,
>> OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD recognize the Ethernet but fail to connect. Only
>> open-source OSes that can connect with this Ethernet were Linux, NetBSD and
>> now Haiku.
>>
>> I looked for but could not find documentation on what file systems, other
>> than BFS, Haiku could read or read and write.
>>
>> I couldn't find anything online for Haiku comparable to the NetBSD Guide or
>> FreeBSD Handbook.
>
> The Haiku User Guide is here:
> http://haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/contents.html
>
>> I saw "mount" but unfortunately couldn't "man mount".
>>
>> File systems of interest to me are FAT (16 and 32), Linux ext2 and ext3
>> (ext4?), FFSv1 and FFSv2, aka UFS1 and UFS2 (BSD).
>
> I know that we support ext2. I think ext3/4 are mounted using ext2
> driver, so mounting read/write is probably not recommended. Someone
> else might be able to advise.
>
>> I need to be able to transfer data with other OSes I use, including Linux,
>> FreeBSD and NetBSD.
>>
>> I also need to be able to find disks and partitions so I know which one I'm
>> mounting, surely don't want to format the wrong partition!
>
> DriveSetup should give you details on all of that :-)
>
>> On my test run of Haiku, when I went to eat, I noticed afterward that the
>> monitor had turned itself off. I couldn't get Haiku back by turning on the
>> monitor switch and moving the mouse or making keystrokes as I can with the X
>> Window system of Linux/BSD/Unix.
>>
>> So Haiku must have either crashed, frozen or simply shutdown on its own; I
>> don't know which.
>
> I've heard at least one other have a similar issue. It might be worth
> disabling letting the monitor go to sleep, and/or set a screensaver
> that's not just a blank screen.
>
> There's also a fairly good support channel on IRC, irc.freenode.net
> #haiku. You can use the bundled IRC client called Vision.
>
> Hope your Haiku experience continues to impress! :-)
>
> Jessica
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