General Haiku Discussion

Here you can talk about anything relating to Haiku.

Installing Haiku to a partition from Linux

Forum thread started by ekdahl on Thu, 2007-09-06 18:54

This is a guide for you who have already been able to build an image of Haiku under Linux and running that with an emulator such as QEMU or VMWare and want to try Haiku natively with your real hardware.

Haiku drivers

Forum thread started by Pintaio on Tue, 2007-09-04 19:02

Where exactly can i download Haiku drivers?
I can't find them now, but some weeks ago i used to find them.
I need a driver for my Intel Extreme 855.

Thanks a lot!

Proposal: floppy image for CD

Forum thread started by deb2006 on Thu, 2007-08-30 22:07

I propose to release a floppy image together with the test images. It's nice to have these test images, but Haiku needs to get into the wilderness. The world is not made of emulators, it consists of various hardware bits and pieces. I mean it's time for people to actually use Haiku on real hardware.

I know I can get the tree and on top of the tree there is a script that builds that image. However, I don't run BeOS - simply because my hardware does not support BeOS. And I cannot see how to get this floppy image on a Linux amd64 box. There is simply no way.

Original Be Developers Guide and Advanced Topics

Forum thread started by McCall on Thu, 2007-08-30 09:34

Folks,

I am having to sell some stuff to raise money for a digital camera for a college course. Two of the items might be of interest to Haiku fans. After arguing with myself saying "people will think I am spamming the auction" and "but I want someone who is really into Haiku to own them" I decided what the hell and originally sent this message to the openbeos mailing list, but it hasn't gone through so I presume it was blocked as SPAM. I apologize in advance as I know some people will find this post annoying.

The auction is here.

Haiku splash/boot screen

Forum thread started by eightbit on Sun, 2007-08-26 19:17

I just installed rev 22056 off of haikuhost to a bfs partition. I noticed that the boot/splash screen doesn't contain the usual "haiku" screen but instead a bar in the upper left corner composed of 16 colors (colorbar?). Also I tried hitting the space bar to access the bootloader options menu but that didn't do anything either. The last few revisions I've played with have done the same thing, but I have a copy of haiku burnt to a cd from April and it displays the normal "haiku" splash screen . What is going on? Is the boot image corrupt? It's really nice seeing the haiku logo and also handy to be able to enter the bootloader menu to select things such as defining a safe graphics mode. Any ideas?

What files for boot floppy?

Forum thread started by deb2006 on Sat, 2007-08-25 18:07

Can anyone tell me what kind of files I need for the Haiku boot floppy image? I checked on "makebootable" from zeta and compared the files and directories used for the boot floppy to the current structure of the hd image. A number of files simply don't exist, others have different names. So it would be of great help if I knew which files to use for the haiku boot floppy image.

Wide titlebars

Forum thread started by stimpy77 on Sun, 2007-08-19 12:58

Hi guys, new here. I test drove Be OS years ago (R3 and R4). Just took the VMWare image of Haiku out for a test drive, looks great! I was wondering, though, I realize Be OS's narrow titlebars were the special "trademark" of the operating system UI, but I thought I saw in Be OS that it had themes that included the window-width version of the titlebar. Is this enabled or coming in Haiku? I personally think the topleft corner version feels imbalanced and lopsided; I appreciate that the others here probably love it but I don't. (No offense, to those of you who have belaboured on this for six years, just a matter of taste.)

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