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Hello,

I would like to install BeOS on this system, but it seems that it is somehow not supported:..

Athlon64 3000+
768 DDR Ram (+256 VRAM)
GeForce FX 5600 (256 VRAM) (AGP)
100 GB HDD (Western Digital)

Now that I have a floppy drive that doesn't appear to freeze the computer whenever I mount a disk, I thought I'd try booting Haiku for the first time since 2002.

Whenever I dd the floppy to disk, it always says 80+1 in, 80+0 out. Is that right? I do a surface scan in DriveSetup and whatever floppy I use it says is fine, but when I boot to it, I get, "Loading," then two and a bit lines of ".", and then it says, "Error reading disk," or something to that effect. If I press enter it tries again and stops in the exact same place every time, whatever the disk.

I've tried to make bootable CD image, but without success. When I use floppy.x86 as emulated floppy boot image (using k3b), resulting CD is not bootable. I've tried makehdimage utility from Haiku sour

Today I installed the Input Server from the Haiku Build Factory, only to find it was crashing the system on bootup. After doing serial debugging, I found that I needed to have both libopenbeos.so and libbeadapter.so present, otherwise an infinite loop would be triggered. I downloaded the Haiku distribution from the Factory and took the two libraries from there and dropped them into my /boot/beos/system/lib dir. After that I again tried installing the Input Server, only to see that bootup fails again. This time I don't have the infinite loop issue, but regardless it isn't working. Has anyone managed to get this working? If so, can you lay out what else I need to do? I'd prefer not to run Zeta on my laptop, but I presently have to because my laptop keyboard will not work with R5. Getting the Input Server working would help out in this regard, even if it isn't completely stable. I want to use my laptop to test out Haiku components, but it's kind of hard to when I am unable to use my keyboard.