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BeOS, Haiku? Is it worth playing with?

PinkyMacGodess

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I have an old PeeCee box, and was trying to get a store bought version of BeOS to install on it, and, the only thing I can think is that the version of BeOS I have doesn't recognize SATA drives? It boots off of the floppy, and sits at the floppy splash screen and does *nothing*. I let it sit for hours, and nothing. The CD drive is a SATA drive, the board doesn't support IDE at all.

So I found Haiku, and downloaded the 'Anyboot' image, and can't get the ISO file in the download to open, or burn in either Windoze, or macOS Big Sur. I get the message something about 'no filesystem', and no go. Their 'supported burning utilities' don't work at all.

*sigh* I could swear I had a version of BeOS running years ago, but don't remember what it was running on.

Tangent: I tried to get Solaris to install on it too, and it keeps going into 'maintenance mode - enter crtl-d', and that's it. No help there either. I did find a drive with Windoze 10 Enterprise, but it's 32-bit only, which is surprising. I didn't think I would have ever had a 32-bit version of Windoze. Weird...

I guess if it won't work, I can scrap the system...
 
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I have Haiku running on a Core 2 Duo laptop. Wrote the anyboot image to a USB stick using balenaEtcher. No problems.
 
Amethyst1 said:
I have Haiku running on a Core 2 Duo laptop. Wrote the anyboot image to a USB stick using balenaEtcher. No problems.
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Hmm... I wrote it to a flash drive last night, and it does boot from it, but I get a screen of error messages, and then the screen blanks out with a small square in the lower left of the screen. I haven't checked it yet this morning, but it's not looking good.

It must work, because there are people that are using it, but it's interesting that I can't get it to work on this board. I didn't know if it was because of an issue with SATA devices. Wild guess... I'll keep working on it, off and on.

Are there any issues with memory size?
 
sgtaylor5 said:
can't resist -

NetPositive is a web browser for the BeOS operating system. It's famous for its haiku error messages:

A truth found, be told
You are far from the fold, Go
Come back yet again.
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The opposite of the Dirty Dick's style weather app. I'm sure that browser could be very funny. That block almost seems Shakespearean.

Tangent warning: As a young kid, I tried Shakespeare, and found it way to obtuse and difficult. Now? Not so much. He had a way of undressing and spanking people with language that we need to mush in today's age of rampant pomposity and hypocrisy.
 
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PinkyMacGodess said:
Are there any issues with memory size?
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The laptop I'm using, which has an Intel 945GM chipset and GMA950 graphics, like the earliest Intel Macs FWIW, has 2 GB and it works. There's only one SSD inside (no optical drive) and I'd have to look up whether that's SATA or PATA/IDE.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
The laptop I'm using, which has an Intel 945GM chipset and GMA950 graphics, like the earliest Intel Macs FWIW, has 2 GB and it works. There's only one SSD inside (no optical drive) and I'd have to look up whether that's SATA or PATA/IDE.
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I asked about memory size becasue this box I'm using has, as I remember, 'only' 1g of ram. I had read that Haiku sometimes has issues with certain systems and their memory types. Picky, picky, picky. That's why I was wondering if it has issues with SATA drives too, but apparently not. There must be some other hangup on that system. It is a fairly old system, which I thought would work to its advantage. *shrug*

I could try to look for a BIOS upgrade, but Intel dumped those boards some time ago.
 
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