BEos Linux version ? installation

[MadHattr]

I want to instal a copy of the free beos for linux that i found at bebits.com i was wounderign how to install this if anyone of you know how to do this please tell me but i am new at some of this shit so i may need more help a tutorial might be good

[Guest birkarl]

Hi,

 

great to see a fellow (to be) BeOS-user. Beos4Linux (as I assume you have) is basically selfcontained inside Linux and it isn't actually harder than

 

http://rtfm.dyndns.info/tips/2000/04/30/27.shtml

 

reports.

 

Alas, I truly recommend using the latest version of the 'BeOS MAX Edition' (currently v2) and use it standalone.

 

It's over at http://www.bebits.com/app/3089 and includes more software and usable drivers for newer hardware.

 

If you like what you see, then take a look at http://www.openbeos.org/ for what could be the next thing.

 

I still use BeOS a few hours per week; mainly to get the kick out of the speed and usability of the OS. It is damn quick and responsive when you're used to Windows and XFree86. Could be a pleasant acquintance of yours, I'm sure.

 

Good luck!

[DOlson]

I'm trying that BeOS Max thing.

 

But I don't like booting from floppy disks... I'm gonna look at getting it into my bootloader, if that's possible.

 

I used to love BeOS.

[Guest birkarl]

Lilo is quite capable of booting BeOS (the standalone one, at least, don't really know about that old beos4linux). Just point at the partition like this in /etc/lilo.conf

 

other=/dev/hda2

label=BeOS

table=/dev/hda

 

and re-run 'lilo' as root. Obviously you should substitute your partition though (here /dev/hda2) and what drivetable it is (hdb if on second disk and so on).

 

Grub? I never used grub, so I don't know.

 

Cheers,

Pez