I'm sorry if this is the nth time somebody is posting a "how do I install Haiku" topic, but I'm really having trouble with this thing. I've messed around with several tutorials for hours, and I still don't have a working Haiku installation.

Just a bit about my machine. I finally got myself an old machine to try out Haiku. It's a very old Nippon Electric Company computer (I think the guy who used to own it smuggled it from Japan or something). The entire thing is just one unit. Speakers, monitor and the computer itself is all integrated into one huge box. It has a VIA Cyrix M3 processor on an old Intel motherboard. Very generic stuff, really. It has 128M of RAM and a 20GB ATA hard drive. So I guess it's perfect for Haiku.

Now, my CD burner is currently dead so I can't burn a CD. I have the Haiku raw image on my USB drive. I can boot this system into CLI mode from a Gentoo CD and I have access to both fdisk and dd.

This is what didn't work : I wiped the disk clean (it had Win98) and created a new 1GB partition with fdisk. I made it bootable and made the FS type BeFS. Then I did dd if=haiku.image of=/dev/hda1. Nothing happened. dd just sits there doing nothing until I hit CTRL+C.

What am I doing wrong?