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Can I install Alpha 4 from within my Haiku partition?

Forum thread started by benifex on Tue, 2012-11-13 06:43

Apologies for what is probably a silly question for the more technically literate .. but:

I have a Haiku partition on my PC, and I can connect to the internet from that. Can I download Alpha 4 from within this Haiku partition and install it from there as well?

Thanks everyone.

Alpha4 & fujitsu lifebook s7010

Forum thread started by lazy on Mon, 2012-11-12 21:48

I've installed alpha4 to real hardware and gets some strange things

Alpha 4 - First Sail

Forum thread started by ronald-scheckelhoff on Mon, 2012-11-12 17:33

I was surprised to see the Alpha 4 release on the home page today ... a few days earlier than expected. So, of course my first impulse was to download the anyboot file, and "dd" it onto my USB drive.

I tried a number of mirrors (really slow) until I hooked into the one in Sweden. I guess Haiku is gaining popularity. There must be quite a few download requests hitting the servers this afternoon. I remember seeing the download totals on one of the developer's pages for the Alpha 3 release. If I remember correctly, the total number of downloads was in the area of 170,000 (woot woot).

Anyway, my anticipation was put off a bit as the splash screen was followed by total black-out on my MSI netbook. For some reason, Alpha 4 didn't like the netbook video (Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller). Just a couple minutes ago I rebooted with safe-graphics mode selected at 800x600@32 bits, and (except for needing the safe-mode) things seem to be working OK. I see the uptick in Webkit and WebPositive versions. Great!

I see this bug for the Intel-extreme/945 driver has already been given a ticket:

http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8001

However; the ticket seems to have been closed about 8 months ago. It looks like the changed code implemented a "most but not all" scenario. The netbook (MSI u120 / Intel 945 graphics) worked great under Alpha 3 at a resolution of 1024x600.

Upgrade to Alpha 4 VMware Fusion

Forum thread started by el.tigre.20 on Mon, 2012-11-12 14:22

Hey, is there any particular way for me to upgrade by Haiku Alpha 3 to Alpha 4, it's currently running in VMware Fusion, and I don't really want to loose my files and stuff....

Or do I have no choice by to start from scratch using Alpha 4?

Thanks!

FAQ 2, sorf of…

Forum thread started by TabletHater on Sun, 2012-11-11 10:03

Greetings…

Please excuse the wall of questions in one post and bear with me if these sound dumb as I'm just an Ubuntu/Debian Openbox user.

  1. Can I install Hauki on x86-64 hardware?
  2. Any optimisation for SSD in installation and in Web app usage or elsewhere?
  3. What is Haiku's sound architecture or framework or whatever? Alsa, OSS…? Does it or media player support gapless playback? Can I set SPDIF as my device?
  4. How can I use/mount my WD network drive; via smb, nfs…?
  5. What toolkit does Haiku use?
  6. Are the apps to be installed only those included in the iso and the ones in Haukiware?
  7. (How) can I install a functional LyX/Texlive environment and some other Qt apps (no KDE ones)?
  8. Is there a backup utility like Luckybackup; or a command line alternative?
  9. Are both global and configurable hot-keys supported? That is, can I configure multimedia keys to control the media app while working with another app?
  10. Is there something like lm_sensors for hardware temp monitoring?
  11. Is there a gmail notifier utility?
  12. CD/DVD/BD ripper?
  13. Is it rolling release?
  14. Can I trust Haiku to continue to be really independent, not to be dominated by some commercial entities (like Red Hat) or by other interest groups; and not to be tabletised, ruined by something like Gnome3 or Unity; or not to be bloated like KDE?

Best wishes…

Beautiful web site by the way.

Another Error

Forum thread started by The French Rat on Thu, 2012-11-08 01:02

Hello,
When I ran Haiku on Q version 0.9.1d118, this came up.
PANIC: Unexpected exception "General Protection Exception" occurred in kernel mode! Error code: 0xfffffffa

Then it goes into debug mode and refuses to boot. I've tried the 'reboot' command, but that didn't work.
Could it be a problem with Q, or is it a problem with Haiku?

getting GCC4 on a GGC4 build ....

Forum thread started by l8night on Wed, 2012-11-07 23:11

I've just created my self a GCC4 image from a linux mint 11 machine using the following set of commands;

sudo apt-get install git yasm autoconf automake texinfo flex bison gawk build-essential unzip wget zip less zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install uboot-mkimage util-linux mtools
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib libc6-dev-i386
git clone git://git.haiku-os.org/buildtools
git clone git://git.haiku-os.org/haiku
./configure --build-cross-tools-gcc4 x86 ../buildtools
pushd ../buildtools/jam
make
popd
export PATH=../buildtools/jam/bin.linuxx86/:$PATH
jam -q -j4 haiku-image
dd bs=1M if=generated/haiku.image of=/dev/sdb

(where /dev/sdb is a 4G usb flash drive)
then I rebooted, and installed onto /dev/sda6 (my haiku partition, that grub can boot)
which was make with the alpha 3 ...
so the install put a new shiny kernel but if I type gcc --version I get the old version 2.x
not the 4.x gcc that the kernel was build with, and I assume any apps I build will not run as the abi will be wrong.

is there a way to get a build that includes the gcc I want ?

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