this is a success story. i hope you'll excuse me, but i need to vent my joy!
the day started well - in the mornting i finally restored my be machine after a long idle period - the hdd had died on me (but not before the s.m.a.r.t warned me and i managed to backup my beos stuff), so i plugged in a brand new barracuda, plus the day before i had accidentally stumbled across a matrox millenium2 in a nearby hw shack. so with the new 80GB hdd and a glorious mga mill2 i got my dual p3 beos box there sitting by noon with a max 3.1 beta edition on one of the partitions, and an empty second bfs partition deliberately made for the glorious day haiku would boot up on this machine.