has anyone found out if BeOS can load from win2k as the cheapy does from win98?

[claiomh]

I am planning on running a win2k/BeOS

and wondered if like, anyone knew if they were easily bootable w/o a disc.

 

[M]

I don't believe that you can boot BeOS by double-clicking on an icon in Win2k. I don't even think this is possible with R5 personal edition (the "cheapy" version as you put it..).

However, You can quite happily use a boot manager, I know for sure that BeOS comes with it's own boot-manager, and gives you the option to install it at the end of the installation of the OS (the purchasable version's install, at least). This will enable you to choose between OSes when BIOS loads up the Master Boot Record. Win2k also comes with a boot manager, though I hear it's fairly difficult to setup with BeOS.

You might wish to take a look around some of the BeOS sites for this sort of stuff. I'd personally recommend taking a look at http://www.betips.net.

Hope this helps.

 

[claiomh]

thanks man,
good sig,
and yeah i was wondering if the MBR would handle the Be/2k or if the floppy disc appraoch was necessary.

as in the free version.

 

[SUOrangeman]

I replicated my BeOS install from another system to my home machine ( a nice feature of BeOS). Using a method very similar to addling Linux to NT's boot loader, I was able to add BeOS to my NT loader. works like a charm.

Without getting too technical, I created a boot sector file from the first 512 bytes of the BeOS partition. I added a line to my C:\boot.ini to point to that boot sector file and the rest is gravy.

Read the Linux-NT Loader mini-HOWTO for the details.

-SUO

 

[M]

There's a neat little quasi-hack for moving the Personal Edition to it's own *real* partition, and getting it to use the BeOS Boot Manager.

Basically, what you need to do, is to go into BeOS, and use the disk partitioning tool to create a BFS partition to the desired size. You should then start 'installer', and tell it to install to the BFS partition you've just created. It will then install a brand new copy of BeOS, which is, afaik, an exact copy (inc. settings) of the original PE install; the only difference being that it's ona a real partition, and it's not limited in size to 512mb. At the end of the install it will also give you the option to install BeOS' boot manager.

There's a bit more info on how to do this here: http://www.betips.net/cgi-bin/chunga.pl?ID=tip528.

Have fun!

 

[mariner]

Hey SUO that sounds interesting. I have never done something like that. Could you be more 'elementary' or provide a good link. Or just email me.