[openbeos] Re: mkfs.beos tool
- From: "Salvatore Benedetto" <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:18:43 +0200
On 4/5/07, Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-04-05 at 09:20:08 [+0200], Salvatore Benedetto <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> is there any news about a mkfs.beos tool for linux?
Nope.
That's pity. Do you know of anyone working on it?
It would make installation easier from linux, without the need
> of installing any BeOS version before.
I'm not quite sure how initializing a BFS partition would help with
installing Haiku. After all you still can't write to the volume. Or has
the
Linux BeFS got write support in the meantime?
That's true. Write support is still missing.
The easiest way to install Haiku onto a partition under Linux is to dd an
image file to the partition and thereafter invoke makebootable to make it
bootable. makebootable should be generated as
generated/objects/linux/x86/release/tools/makebootable/platform/bios_ia32/ma
kebootable
If it hasn't been built yet, run "jam -q '<build>makebootable'".
Stupid question.. does the partition have to be of the same size of the
haiku.image? Can
it be bigger?
It is also possible to let the build process install Haiku directly onto
the partition. You'd have to set HAIKU_IMAGE_NAME and HAIKU_IMAGE_DIR to
refer to the partition device.
I'm trying with BeOS MAX anyway.
I suppose I don't have to add that playing with the wrong partition can
have *very* undesired effects.
Of corse not! ;-)
CU, Ingo
Thanks for your help!
Salvo
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