Any BeBox owners here?

Forum thread started by macsociety on Fri, 2010-06-18 16:48

I just purchased a BeBox 133MHz system and would like to see if there are still any BeBox owners here. I am also interested in Haiku on Intel for later but would be nice to get to know fellow BeBox owners also.

I am now working on getting a network card for mine and also update OS. It is at R3 now. I have the R5.03 CD but scares me about the bootrom updates. Do I have to update my bootrom to update from R3 to R5?

tj

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Re: Any BeBox owners here?

by Snuhwolf - 2010-06-19 22:32

Try running the BeOS max live cd on it. That might tell you if its compatible without any ROM upgrades.

Re: Any BeBox owners here?

by tonestone57 - 2010-06-20 00:10

BeOS MAX is x86 only.

Internet is your friend. :-)
http://www.bebox.nu/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=2&topic=18&start=0
http://www.bebox.nu/faqs.php?s=faqs/faq-0285
http://testou.free.fr/www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/support/qandas...
http://wiki.bebits.com/page/BeBox

I think if you can run R3 that you can upgrade without ROM upgrade. Systems that ran older BeOS than PR1 (or R3) would not work from the info I have seen posted. PR1 (or R3?) was the cross over requiring ROM update.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS#Version_history

Re: Any BeBox owners here?

by seki - 2010-08-17 15:50
macsociety wrote:

I just purchased a BeBox 133MHz system and would like to see if there are still any BeBox owners here. I am also interested in Haiku on Intel for later but would be nice to get to know fellow BeBox owners also.

Just an up to tell that you are not alone: I am more or less in the same situation. Interested in Haiku, I kept a BeOS featured x86 box for several years until the mid 2000's, and I managed at last to get a dual 133 BeBox last year...

Feel free to msg me if you want...

Re: Any BeBox owners here?

by lorezan - 2010-08-17 20:27

macsociety, I have a dual133MHz Rev6 BeBox, and I sold his unit to seki (a like new Rev8 iirc) last year :)

I saw your youtube video and I'd like to know what are all your discs and books next to your monitor, in case I'm missing any (like that BeSpecific CD, I only have the 5th or 6th edition, I can't remember now).

I'm a BeOS collector as well, I'll send you a link with pictures of my collection by mail later, if you wish...

Regards,
lorezan