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Getting started

Forum thread started by cpf_ on Thu, 2008-06-05 11:19

Any link or so that actually gives you a small tour through haiku?
Like a getting started thing??

I'm currently running under VirtualBox (with the virtualization enabled), and it workes hugely slow.
I just might use vmware in a minute ^^

// edit:
Never mind really, I'm starting to get along with haiku :)

sound

Forum thread started by mmarquardt on Wed, 2008-05-28 01:25

I have Haiku running on VMware on Windows XP on an IBM Thinkpad A21m. How do I enable sound? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

mounting drives

Forum thread started by mmarquardt on Wed, 2008-05-28 01:20

I have Haiku running on VMware. How do I mount hard drives, cdroms, and usb drives? I have a floppy drive connected to a pcmcia usb card. Can I mount the hard drive from which VMware is running? VMware is running on Windows XP on a fat32 partition. There are no other available partitions on the drive. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

browser

Forum thread started by mmarquardt on Wed, 2008-05-28 01:11

I have Haiku running on VMware. How do I add an internet browser?
I have internet access, and ftp seems to work. Any help is appreciated.

Problems with makebootable

Forum thread started by VinDuv on Sun, 2008-05-25 16:24

Hello,
I'm trying to install Haiku to a partition of an IDE drive from Linux and got some problems :

sudo jam -q
[...]
AddDirectoryToContainerCopyFilesScript beos/etc/licenses/-/data/etc/licenses 
InitScript1 generated/haiku.image-unzip-files 
BuildHaikuImage1 /dev/hda6 

Creating image ...
Partition::SetTo(): active: 80
Partition::SetTo(): active: 0
intel: _ParsePrimary(): partition 1: bad location, ignoring
Partition::SetTo(): active: 0
intel: _ParsePrimary(): partition 2: bad location, ignoring
Partition::SetTo(): active: 0
Error: Invalid partition index 6.
Populating image ...
Deleting old MIME database ...
Installing MIME database ...
Unmounting ...
...updated 309 target(s)...

So makebootable doesn’t seems to work (I tried to run “makebootable /dev/hda6” (after setting correctly LD_LIBRARY_PATH so it can find the required libs) and I got the same error message).
The hard drive was partitioned with fdisk v2.12r. (2 primary partitions + 2 logical)

Disk /dev/hda: 76.8 GB, 76869918720 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9345 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        1868    15004678+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            1869        7820    47809440   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            7821        9345    12249562+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5            7821        8319     4008186   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6            8320        9345     8241313+   b  W95 FAT32

(I also have some SCSI drives inside.)

Haiku and qemu and sound

Forum thread started by expensivelesbian on Fri, 2008-05-23 08:44

Hello

I've got Haiku running on WinXP under Qemu, but I cannot get any sound for some reason. Is this a known issue, or can someone copy and paste me their working Qemu command? I think I have this issue in Linux as well, but I'm not there currently, but will update this post anon once I am.

Please advise if I need to post my machine specs.

My current command is:

REM Start qemu on windows.
@ECHO OFF

REM SDL_VIDEODRIVER=directx is faster than windib. But keyboard cannot work well.
SET SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib

REM SDL_AUDIODRIVER=waveout or dsound can be used. Only if QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=sdl.
SET SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dsound

REM QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=dsound or fmod or sdl or none can be used. See qemu -audio-help.
SET QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=sdl

REM QEMU_AUDIO_LOG_TO_MONITOR=1 displays log messages in QEMU monitor.
SET QEMU_AUDIO_LOG_TO_MONITOR=1

REM PCI-based PC(default): -M pc 
REM ISA-based PC         : -M isapc
REM -M isapc is added for NE2000 ISA card.

REM qemu.exe -L . -m 1024 -kernel-kqemu -soundhw es1370 -net user -net nic,model=rtl8139 -hda haiku.img -localtime -M pc

qemu.exe -L . -m 1024 qemu -soundhw all -net user -net nic -M pc -localtime -hda haiku.img

thanks in advance

Let's get serial debugging going here...

Forum thread started by j_freeman on Tue, 2008-05-20 00:14

I've been meaning to do this for a few years now, but only recently have I bought a null modem cable, and only today have I tried it out.

I'm running Ubuntu on the receiving machine, and a recent build of Haiku on the other; null modem cable connecting the two (obviously). I start up PuTTY in Ubuntu, specify 115200 as the speed, boot up the Haiku machine but I don't receive anything in PuTTY.

I've confirmed that serial/COM is enabled in the BIOS of both machines. Any ideas?

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