Boot BeOS on a laptop with no floppy?
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Original Message
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Name: Steve Jacoby
Date: June 5, 2002 at 09:25:17 Pacific
Subject: Boot BeOS on a laptop with no floppy?
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Comment: My HP zt1130 has no floppy drive. How do I make a bootable CD to get into BeOS?
Please email responces to me. Thx.
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Response Number 1
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Name: Andrew Ordo
Date: June 5, 2002 at 10:29:45 Pacific
Subject: Boot BeOS on a laptop with no floppy?
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Reply: (edit)The BeOS Pro Edition 5.0 CD is bootable. What version of BeOS are you using?
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Response Number 2
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Name: jefro
Date: June 5, 2002 at 14:21:22 Pacific
Subject: Boot BeOS on a laptop with no floppy? |
Reply: (edit)Search Betips.net for CD or
Download the 5.0.4 iso from beosonline
Buy the Pro version from purplus
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Response Number 3
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Name: Bob
Date: June 5, 2002 at 16:06:57 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Just use the BeOS PE version that installs within Windows, re-install on it's own partition, and delete the the Windows PE installation. Use BeOS bootman and you'll likely never need a floppy. There are some problems with the beosonline version, from what I have read.
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Response Number 4
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Name: Bob
Date: June 5, 2002 at 16:18:58 Pacific
Subject: Boot BeOS on a laptop with no floppy? |
Reply: (edit)The problems with the beosonline version I mentioned, I actually read at this website. Go down the page to the discussion "Is BeOS a True Desktop OS?" and read the post by m.I.K.E.
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Response Number 5
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Name: Jefro
Date: June 5, 2002 at 16:59:49 Pacific
Subject: Boot BeOS on a laptop with no floppy?
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Reply: (edit)OHHHH! I get it now. You have beos installed and you want to make a bootable CD that will boot into your installed beosPE
The way I do it is get you a rescue disk or bootable dos diskette and use that to make an el torreto bootable CD. Also put two files on it. Loadbeos.com and zbeos. When your CD boots up to dos then type in loadbeos and it should see your installed BeOS PE. You can go to Betips and get a way to make a BEOS bootable CD but you would still have to make a beos bootfloopy.
Get dos/win9xme bootdisk
get loadbeos.com
get zbeos
Go to a Cd burner and make a Cd that is bootable using the dos bootdisk
put the loadbeos and zbeos on that disk.
run loadbeos.com
could make an autoexec file too to do that.
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Response Number 6
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Name: Steve Jacoby
Date: June 10, 2002 at 18:01:21 Pacific
Subject: Boot BeOS on a laptop with no floppy?
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Reply: (edit)Thanks Jefro, I'll probably get around to this eventually ;> I've never got BeOS to boot properly on my desktops, so I thought my new laptop might work, but without a floppy it's tricky.
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