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cant install beos as stadnalone OS
Name: Teko Date: June 12, 2002 at 07:39:38 Pacific
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i read earlier that one way to install beos as a stand alone os on a partition is to run install beos en run the installer in beos, how is that possible when beos doesn't recognize .exe files? can somebody help me out?
Name: Chris Hodapp Date: June 12, 2002 at 10:48:55 Pacific
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
[sigh]
While running under BeOS, search through some menus and you'll find Installer. You'll obviously need a partition, but it also comes with tools to partition.... and it has a boot loader too.
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Response Number 2
Name: jefro Date: June 12, 2002 at 14:07:06 Pacific
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You can buy the pro CD. It has a partitionmagic copy that will make a new partition. You can download the beosonline ISO and install it to a partition that you made. Or you can install either the linux or windows Personal edition and then when you are running BeOS you can use one of it's apps called installer to a partition you made.
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Response Number 3
Name: Andrew Ordo Date: June 12, 2002 at 16:28:12 Pacific
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You the Personal Edition as a stand-alone OS. I believe this has already been addressed several times in this forum. How to do it is also explained in an article on the Be Tips Server. Everything you need to know you can find at http://www.betips.net/
Teko, it's not that BeOS doesn't recognize DOS and Windows executables, it's that DOS and Windows executables are for DOS and Windows. They're not written for BeOS. BeOS is not DOS and it's not Windows. It's a different operating system and as such, it can't execute DOS or Windows code. You might as well try to get Windows to run a Commodore C-64 program (emulators aside)!
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