[haiku] Re: I, a rank neophyte installed Haiku.
- From: Nicholas Otley <nicholasotley@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:16:39 +0100
Hi William,
The partitioner is on the first screen of the installer. Just click
"Setup Partitions" and it's quite straightforward from there on.
Cheers,
Nik
On 14 Sep 2009, at 00:12, William Ove wrote:
I have had BeOS R5 on a PowerMac 8600 for many years, and I have
followed this list for a long time. I use a G4 Mac day to day, but
was excited enough about a Haiku release that I went and purchased
an old ThinkPad T23 on which to install Haiku.
I was successful, but it was a miserable day long process, and I did
not find much information that either made sense or was helpful. It
went something like this.
1) Download Haiku ISO and burn to CD on Mac,
2) boot Thinkpad from CD, works just great, but can not install for
I have no partition and Haiku does not have partitioner.
3) download Linux distro and burn to CD on Mac.
4) Use Linux CD installer to create a partition
5) Install Haiku on partition created above. It will not boot and
old Win OS does not boot either. Some sort of boot manager is needed.
6) Go back to Linux CD, create more partitions, install Linux which
installs a boot loader, but boot loader does not automatically find
Haiku.
7) Go search on info for Grub as well as how to edit grub from Linux.
8) This does work and Haiku gets added to the boot loader and Haiku
boots up on the Thinkpad T23. Screen, network, sound and track
pointer are all working fine.
I am a big fan of Be and am ready to jump through hoops to work in
Haiku. But I must say this adventure tried my patience. The Haiku
web site is a disaster for navigation, and much of the information
is very difficult to follow. I used google a great deal and spent
more time on Linux sites figuring out partitioning and boot manager
concerns.
But the sum is that Haiku boots up on hardware. It runs well and
supports lots of things needed and necessary. I look forward to
installing some applications and making more and more use of it.
Congratulations and Thank you.
bill
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