Help first time installing haiku

Forum thread started by lib1 on Fri, 2012-05-11 23:21

Hi,

I've been following Haiku for some time, had it in a virtual machine, but now I'd like to install it to a disk partition.
Maybe my searches were not thorough, but I couldn't find a good howto for this.

What I thought of was to partition my hard drive with four primary partitions:
1. for haiku
2. for react os (or maybe Aros OS)
3. for root partition of my main system Linux
4. for the extended partition

But I need to know some things:
1- what type of partition id (from linux's fdisk) should I choose for Haiku? The BeOS type? other?
I chose the BeOS type but the installer didn't seem to recognize the disk partition.
2- Considering 1. and 2. what should I install as bootloader? My default lilo seems to be out of question. Grub at MBR is enough? Is there a good howto on how to do this.
3- The installation procedures stalled at an early stage, maybe because of the disk partition not being regognized. What can I do?

Thanks in advance for your time. I really would like to use Haiku, as a fast boot system for internet browsing, multimedia, etc.

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Comments

Re: Help first time installing haiku

by linuxluvr - 2012-05-12 02:34

When creating your partitions using linux, just leave the partition you want for Haiku blank. Do not format it with a filesystem at all - let the Haiku installer format that particular partition (This is not the only way to do this but it is probably a good idea since you have been having trouble with it). You can setup all of the other partitions as you were doing.

Then you can follow this installation guide to get you the rest of the way. It includes how to set up grub at the end so that you can choose Haiku from the boot menu and boot into it.

Re: Help first time installing haiku

by lib1 - 2012-05-13 22:05

Thank you, I'll try this.