BeOS on older laptop-no HardDrive?

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Name: caliprelude
Date: March 30, 2003 at 14:34:08 Pacific
Subject: BeOS on older laptop-no HardDrive?
OS: BeOS
CPU/Ram: P133 - 24mb

Comment:

I'm trying to install BeOs Pro on an older laptop. Its a Pentium 133 with 24mb ram. I am using the boot floopy created from the downloaded version of BeOS PE. I can boot off the floppy and it runs the BeOS PRO CD but it doesn't reconize my Hard Drive so I can't install it anywhere.
Can anyone help me with this? Thanks!

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Response Number 1

Name: Bobthearch
Date: March 30, 2003 at 20:14:42 Pacific
Subject: BeOS on older laptop-no HardDrive?

Reply: (edit)

Because laptops contain specialized hardware not otherwise found in PCs, your hardware may not be compatible. You can check Frizbe.net for a compatibility list.
You might also want to check some of the PE distros (Max, Developer's Edition) that contain newer drivers and patches.
Best Luck,
Bob

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Response Number 2

Name: jefro
Date: April 2, 2003 at 15:46:36 Pacific
Subject: BeOS on older laptop-no HardDrive?

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Might try.
Try alt shift ctrl d for the drive setup screen and see if you can mount it. Do this from the installer screen. Just after the eula.
Guess it might be possible to put the hard drive in a home computer and put beos on it that way and also put the beos bootloader on it and return it. Can't say why it doesn't seem to see the drive.

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Response Number 3

Name: caliprelude
Date: April 3, 2003 at 16:38:18 Pacific
Subject: BeOS on older laptop-no HardDrive?

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during the install screen, i go into the setup drive screen and i dont see the hard drive at all. all i see is the floppy drive and the cdrom drive.
the thing i dont understand is why it would reconize the cdrom and not the hard drive. its all under the same ide channel on the laptop.
is there something obvious that im missing?

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Response Number 4

Name: jefro
Date: April 3, 2003 at 18:21:48 Pacific
Subject: BeOS on older laptop-no HardDrive?

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That was only a try thing. My only guess is if you can't do a "rescan IDE" the drive it might be a RLR or MFM drive and the adapter isn't supported or that the bios doesn't report the drive correctly. See if the bios will do a auto identify or if you have to tell it what drive type you have. Be sure to disable plug and play if an option too.
Kind of goes back to Bob's thought that laptops have/had special requirements that may not allow a desktop OS to run. Some are one of a kind things. My guess is you have a Phoenix bios and some of them are not beos friendly.
The thought also might be to boot from dos if a clean beos boot doesn't do it. You need loadbeos.com and zbeos in the dos command line path. Loadbeos will write zbeos over command.com and load up beos. Since the drive works in dos then it might work after "setup" from bios.?? dunno. just a try

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