[haiku] Installing Haiku in Acer Aspire One (was [haiku-development] Re: Kernel APM function access?)
- From: "Jorge G. Mare" <jorge.g.mare@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:41:56 -0800
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the reply. Moving this one to the Haiku list.
See comment below.
kallisti5 wrote:
> I installed Haiku on the Acer following the steps below (mine is the HDD
> version, but the same steps should work for the SDD version)
>
> These instructions use a linux machine extensively so having one is
> advised/
>
>
> Steps 1-3 are only needed because the partition manager does not really let
> you manage partitions yet ;) Steps 10-11 are needed because makebootable
> was broken for the longest time in the installer and I don't trust it :)
>
> 1) Crate a Gparted boot cd or usb stick
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/liveusb.php
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
>
> 2) boot the system and partition the drive to have an empty partition for
> Haiku (i use partid 'eb' for BeOS)
>
I have gone as far as booting the Gparted liveCD and creating an empty
partition.
However, I seem to be unable to find the way to set the partid to 'eb'.
Can you be more specific?
I am leaving the rest of your post quoted below, as others may benefit
from it.
Thanks!
Jorge
> 3) Shut the system down.
>
> 4) dd the latest uncompressed pre-alpha drive image to a USB memory stick
> from a linux/UNIX machine
> http://haiku-files.org/raw/index.php
> dd if=haiku-alpha.image of=/dev/USBSTICKDRIVE bs=1024
>
> 5) Boot the Acer with the Haiku USB stick
>
> 6) Format the partition you created in step 2 as BeFS.
>
> 7) Launch the Installer located in /boot/beos/apps/
>
> 8) Select the partition you formatted and take note of the path (
> /dev/dsk/ata/0/master/[0-4] )
>
> 9) Install the System
>
> 10) Unmount the destination drive on the desktop.
>
> 11) open a command prompt and run the following: makebootable <THE PATH
> FROM STEP 8> to make the partition bootable.
>
> 12) Run bootman to install a bootloader in the MBR.
>
> 13) Profit (Haiku)
>
>
> Lets post any replies into the Haiku mailing list not to spam -development.
>
>
> --Alex
>
>
>
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