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Hi everyone,

I'm trying to boot the Haiku R1Alpha1 livecd but it fails. The problem is that the livecd boots and shows the boot icons lighting up one after the other, but it stops on the disk icon which has a yellow leaf on it. I tried to enable fail-safe mode (IIRC I enabled DM for sata, and single CPU core option) and it booted, but then I couldn't use either the mouse or keyboard! (I only saw up to the dialog that asks if you want to go to desktop or installer, but no mouse or keyboard to choose any of the options).

I'm sure there is no problem with livecd because it boots correctly on a virtual machine (VirtualBox) and I actually installed it on a VM and use Haiku that way for now, but I would really like to use it on a regular basis (I know it's alpha). Right now, I'm not sure what kind of information should I offer, but I would greatly appreciate any help and just let me know what info you need from me.

Thank you,

I'm not completely familiar with BeOS or Haiku although I have used both for a very short amount of time. Anyway, I wanted to know if Haiku uses a standard package manager to install files like Windows does with exe files. I recall installing a pkg. file in BeOS that was similar but I don't see too many of those for download. Many of the downloads that I find from BeBits and Haikuware contain files that are complex and that give little or no information on how to install. To a user who is familiar with using BeOS and Haiku this may not be a problem, but for a new user it can be quite frustrating.

Has anybody out there had any luck in getting a Yahoo chat client working in the alpha version of Haiku? Ive tried various software available on Haikuware with no luck.
So the only workround for now is for me to use The web based Meebo.com in Bezilla to chat on Yahoo Network.

Hi,

i want to try Haiku on a usb. Following instructions for windows, i get error on the path, it says "unknown command" and then goes the path. I have tryed with quotes, without, and i get the same.. Could someone help me ?

Thank You!
n0de.

//-Solved, works.

Now the new problem is:

When i start booting from usb, HAIKU boot screen shows up, then first three icons/images gets colorful, and then it stops. It bugs on that boot screen and nothing happens, so wtf ?

n0de.