Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

WardC

macrumors 68030
Original poster
Oct 17, 2007
2,727
215
Fort Worth, TX
Has anybody tried installing BeOS or Haiku on a MacBook Air? I believe it can be done but I have never heard of anybody that has tried it. I would like to try running BeOS on my MacBook Air once I get it, it's one of my favorite operating systems. I own a copy of BeOS 4.5 for Intel and PowerPC, but the intel install requires both the CD-ROM and a floppy disk to install.

Maybe Haiku is the only way to get something like BeOS installed on a modern intel-based machine. I guess I would need to download the CD image and burn it to a disc, and then install it to a partition from a SuperDrive.
 
I wouldn't recommend this. BeOS 4.5 doesn't support modern hardware, and Haiku is an alpha OS. You should run it in either VMware Fusion or Virtualbox (free). Haiku works pretty well in a virtual machine, actually.
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.