Need some help getting Haiku installed on R5!

Forum thread started by chris.k23 on Mon, 2005-01-24 11:32

Firstly, sorry to be posting this as it's bound to be in an FAQ or have been discussed here many times in the past. :oops:

I've got R5.0.3 installed and I'd like to build the various Haiku packages so I can have a play with them. I understand that it's best to have BONE installed first so my first question is - where do I find BONE?

Next, I've been reading some of the info regarding the Haiku packages, but is there a step-by-step guide to getting them built and installed?

Thanks in advance

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Need some help getting Haiku installed on R5!

by chris.k23 - 2005-01-24 12:30

Sorry - ignore this. I've tracked down bone 7a (I'm guessing this is the most current version) and I've found mahlzeit's getting started guide so I'll try this out tonight!

I do, however, reserve the right to post more inane noobie questions here as and when appropriate. :wink:

Need some help getting Haiku installed on R5!

by tb100 - 2005-01-24 13:47

You can test ready-built packages from the build factory - the link is in a topic in the website team forum I think.

I don't think BONE is required - in fact Haiku are targetting source/binary compatiblily with plain R5 net_server.

Should work under either I think.

Need some help getting Haiku installed on R5!

by myob - 2005-01-24 14:26
tb100 wrote:
You can test ready-built packages from the build factory - the link is in a topic in the website team forum I think.

I don't think BONE is required - in fact Haiku are targetting source/binary compatiblily with plain R5 net_server.

Should work under either I think.

They are however using a kernelland POSIX compliant networking stack... where have we heard that before?

Need some help getting Haiku installed on R5!

by chris.k23 - 2005-01-26 12:36

Finally managed to checkout and build the current source tree! net_server kept falling over (couldn't find any particular cause/pattern, except that it would happen after roughly 10 minutes). I also started getting 'bad pipe' or similar errors so I downloaded and installed BONE 7a - after that it ran through fine.

I built the full tree and had a look at a few of the apps (CD player appears as an empty window on my system?) and I'll have a further look later this week. Of course, now the Haiku team have announced a move away from CVS I'll be waiting for the newbie guide to SubVersion!
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