Summary: Thanks, Jefro. I used the BeOS 5.0.3 Pro distro with bone 7a installed to make a boot floppy, but it failed. I even tried a boot image on a CD -- no ...
Summary: With most versions of PE you would have a way to make a bootfloppy. The floppy disk that you use MUST be 100% good since the image of the floppy takes...
Summary: Hey james, I'm having the same problem as you... I can boot from the boot disk fine and dandy but I can't get LiLo to boot it without the BeOS system ...
Summary: The only thing I see is that you may have trouble with the PIO thing. I read somewhere something about it. I will look for exactly what it was. Anywa...
Summary: ive gotten a couple of emails about a post i placed in the os/2 forrum about how i have so many operating systems on my system and how to do it also o...
Summary: I managed to download and install BeOS, but realised i would have to use the 'boot-floppy' disk to get into the O/S because i run Windows Me. (does no...
Summary: Ok... I somehow got it... Basically, I looked again on BeTips and followed the directions exactly. I got mkhybrid for BeOS so I could make a floppy bo...
Summary: You might try this. Get a dos boot disk ,dos5 through win98. find loadbeos.com and zbeos either on the PE or on the web. Copy loadbeos.com and zbeos...
Summary: I have just this day loaded Beos Personal Edition (got it free a couple of years ago with APC)I have virtually the same setup as you. It sets itself u...
Summary: That might mean that you have still a prior install of beos on the XP's NTFS partiton. When you make the boot floppy from the Pro CD and reboot with ...
Summary: i try booting into max with maxv3 distro floppy/boot cd. when started in debugging mode / cd-rom as boot volume, session ends up with the following me...
Summary: Sorry...Idon't think it's possible to initially run the Personal Edition without a floppy, as it's a virtual file that doesnt have it's own partition,...
Summary: I downloaded the Personal edition some time ago, I loved BeOS the only problum was when i upgraded to an AMD Athlon XP based system, BeOS wouldnt load...
Summary: Yes, Zeta has the same boot manager, but I have tried that one and the one that comes with Mandrake Linux, but both fail when it comes to trying to us...
Summary: There are basically two ways to install the actual Be Inc product they called BeOS. One is from a cd to a partition. The other used a neat trick that ...
Summary: You have basically one choice - make a bootdisk. Windows Startup disk, whatever. Windows Me doesn't let you system format a floppy disk to make a boot...
Summary: That would be the last icon meaning BeOS is trying to mount the file system. While many people including me have BeOS on a NTFS drive, many more inclu...
Summary: i've got installed win98, win2k, linux 5.2, and beos 5 personal edition on different partitions. how can i get linux and beos to show in the win2k boo...
Summary: Need more info. If you only use the beos installer to install from an working install or CD to a blank partition I don't think you will have any troub...
Summary: I have a BeOS problem, i installed beos ( on win2k, ntfs ), when i boot to beos, i get the start screen, it thinks a little bit, the first 2 icons get...
Summary: yes and sort of to the first question. You may not be able to boot from the BeOS boot manager to windowsxp because xp has put a file in the boot loade...
Summary: Check other forums I guess. If you can't get your keyboard to work in safe mode start up I just don't know how to get a different driver to work easil...
Summary: Tried to disable bios calls? If not press space when Beos starts to boot to bring up the safe mode screen. Try the different options there. ...
Summary: As of my last post, I have tried the following, and none of it has worked: pressed the space bar during the boot to try out various safe boot options,...
Summary: What you need to do is find a way to boot to BeOS. Fortunately, this isn't that troublesome. Is this BeOS Pro or Personal? If it's Pro, then simply ...
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