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Couple of questions about preserving settings...

Forum thread started by mikebryant on Fri, 2008-03-07 21:03

Hi all,

I just installed Haiku natively on my Thinkpad T60 from Ubuntu and it worked great. Many thanks for the authors of the excellent walk-throughs on this site.

Although it boots fine I have a couple of problems I thought I'd post here before doing further digging and (if necessary) putting in bug reports.

1) When I switch the resolution from the default 800x600 to my T60's native 1650x1080 it says that since my videocard isn't supported the setting will be applied on the next boot. That's fine, except that they aren't - I'm back to 800x600. Is VESA not capable of running that mode, or could something else be amiss?

Installing new software in VMWare, internet connectivity?

Forum thread started by mattstevenson on Mon, 2008-03-03 23:12

Hi there,
This evening I downloaded a copy of the Haiku image for VMWare, which boots nicely, and runs brilliantly. However, I'm unable after much tinkering to access t'internet, I've tried putting the Ethernet option in VMWare as Bridged and NAT, and have received no joy. In both configurations, DHCP picks up an address, but it's useless, and I get no DNS.

Does anybody know how I might go about setting up a proper internet connection within VMWare, so I can then install a web browser etc?

Oh, and by the way - the laptop is connected to my wireless LAN, and NAT Mode has worked in other virtual OSes I've used today. This is specifically a Haiku issue.

Oh, and even more by the way - Haiku looks a hell of a lot better than I was anticipating, nice one! :)

Regards, Matt Stevenson.

My way of installing Haiku image to a Hard drive.

Forum thread started by belfasteddie on Tue, 2008-02-26 10:17

I spent several weeks reading this Forum and trying to comprehend how to install an image to a Hard drive, I also read the method descibed on the Besly site and although it was German to English I found it lost a bit in translation.
Using the German idea I came across the following method purely by trial and error. N.B. I cannot at this point get Haiku to boot past the Blue screen, but then again I can't get Beos 5 to boot unless I use the safe method.
A couple of conventions: The hard drive is an Ide that was formatted to BFS . I run Zeta 1.5 and used that to complete the following. Beos Bootmanager was already installed.

1: Download "IMAGEMOUNTER" from Bebits. expand it .
2: Download a Haiku image. Expand it.
3: Right click on the image file,i.e. Haiku.image.r24101 250mgb.

Installing Haiku to a partition and updating

Forum thread started by kwurzel on Mon, 2008-02-25 15:05

Hi!

Has anyone managed to install Haiku to a partition from Linux and update it now and then (i.e. keeping settings and maybe files)?

My UserBuildConfig currently looks like this (comments are in Germany, ignore them if you don't understand them ^.^):

## Installiert Haiku auf /dev/sdb2
HAIKU_IMAGE_NAME                = sdb2 ;
HAIKU_IMAGE_DIR                 = /dev ;
 
## Loescht vorhandene Installation nicht; noch zu testen
#HAIKU_DONT_CLEAR_IMAGE         = 1 ;
 
## Alle verfuegbaren Pakete einbinden
#HAIKU_ADD_ALL_OPTIONAL_PACKAGES= 1 ;

Operability of Haiku

Forum thread started by paulfxh on Sat, 2008-02-16 17:47

I just got Haiku running in VMware server and have a couple of newbie questions.

1. Is there any way to get vmware-tools working with Haiku in VMware Server?

2. I have read (and almost understood) the network guide given in this link (http://www.haiku-os.org/node/add/forum/198).
But as this is almost three years old, I thought perhaps there was an updated (and therefore easier) guide available.
Is there?

Thanks
Paul

Help me install Haiku to VMware Server

Forum thread started by paulfxh on Fri, 2008-02-15 23:34

I've been trying to use this guide (http://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/tutorial_on_how_to_make_beos_max...) to install Haiku (or is it BeOS?) in VMware Server (1.0.4) on my Dell 4550 desktop.
When I tried to power on the new VM, the boot splash shows up but almost immediately I get a message saying (among other stuff)
"Boot failure: was unable to mount
/dev/disk/ide/atapi/1/slave/0/0_0 type bfg on /boot"
There was also a lot of stuff and numbers about kernel debugging and the word PANIC showed up too.

Now at this stage I will admit that my install didn't go completely smoothly (not for lack of trying) and I had two particular problems that almost certainly relate to the boot failure:

WinMo replacement?

Forum thread started by Evedell on Wed, 2008-02-13 05:39

Any possibility of getting Haiku to run on a winmo device? I'm sure there's linux alternatives out there, but it'd be nice to get a version running on our low powered mobile devices. Just wondering if something like that was possible.

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