Anyone running BEOS?

[kyoshozx]

I had downloaded BEOS the personal edition way back but never played with it. I was wondering if it's compatible with windows xp? Since all the assets of be was sold to palm i'm unable to get info from there site.

 

[ToBeMe]

I've got it and use it with 98, but to my knowledge, it's not compatible with XP or 2K or ME.............. Man I wish someone would have picked that up and ran with it!! I love it! Did you also hear BE is sueing MS claiming it killed the OS and BE Inc.???????

 

[dartblazer]

You can make the startup floppy disk to run it. And there's a way to get it to BeON it's own standard partition. I believe you can also run the command "bootman" from the command line and then you can configure a bootloader.

If you like the NT bootloader there is a little utility that will add BeOS to the bootmenu, i believe it's actually called "AddBeOS". It's tough to find a good working version though.

Have fun, there's even a BeOS version of WINE out there.

 

[kyoshozx]

ToBeMe, Yeah I heard BEOS is suing MS, But it's already too late the company's assets were already sold to palm and I doubt they'll continue development for BEOS on the desktop

Dartblazer, Unfortunately I'm unable to boot from the floppy bootdisk. I remembered getting it to run on win2k in the past when it first came out but not sure why it won't boot in winxp. I'm trying to remember whether I had fat32 or ntfs when I installed it in the past.