On 2/7/07, Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-02-07 at 00:54:37 [+0100], Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > On the same sort of note, I've currently got R5 set up on my "Haiku" > partition, so I'm trying to move it into an image file on a FAT32 > partition. It doesn't seem to work though - a 3GB D:\BEOS\image.be does not > appear in the boot menu and is listed in Tracker's mount menu as > /virtual/fmap0 after booting the real partition, rather than the actual > name of the image. I can't recall ever having heard of that feature. I've never had a FAT partition either, though.
I believe he's referring to the feature of BeOS R5 PE where it installed a 500mb image.be onto a FAT (or NTFS) Windows partition and along with a boot disk (or some interesting autoexec.bat boot trickery for Win9x users) it would find and mount that image.be file as the /boot partition off the host partition. I (and others) were thinking this might even be a neat trick to use for mounting a BFS image file from LiveCD off of ISO9660/El Torito disc to prevent the "dreaded" 2-track burning situation when distributing a BeOS/Haiku Live/Install cd in the future. Is that possible? It sure would make it easier to distribute a single burnable ISO in the future.
