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Boot BeOS on a laptop with no floppy?
Name: Steve Jacoby Date: June 5, 2002 at 09:25:17 Pacific
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.
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.
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
Name: Jefro Date: June 5, 2002 at 16:59:49 Pacific
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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
Name: Steve Jacoby Date: June 10, 2002 at 18:01:21 Pacific
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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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