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!

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

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.

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?

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