BeOS 5
I finally got round to installing BeOS again, the original BeOS 5 Professional Edition. It always made me wonder why the OS Install disk said 'free and shareware' on it, when that was on cd 2. ah well, skipping the floppy and booting straight off the cd, I created 4 primary partions on the hdd in my laptop (having just accidentally erased it all with my BlueOnyx CD (big oops) - ah well thats why I build RAIDs and backup servers...
Back to the point, I created 4 ~ 10GB or so partitions, a partition map scheme which completely failed because Windows XP didnt recognise the FAT partition I made, and I had to erase it and start over - and also Ubuntu took several install attempts, why I wrangled with LVM and encryption. Of course, I realised that I would need some unencrypted space (say ~1GB to be generous) for an ext2|3 /boot partition. But now I had used 4 primaries, and had no space for a swap! Numerous false starts later, I finally got encryption and LVM settled down, a space for / and swap contained within, hurrah!
But then the Ubuntu Server edition rebooted after copying all the files on, and came up with an error about PAE missing from the celeron processor in my HP Pavilion ZE21055EA notebook. Damn! With a sprinkling of Blast!, as the Grub bootloader doesnt recognise anything as being installed on my BeFS partion, i.e. BeOS. So I have a triple boot laptop which only runs Windows XP =(
I might be able to recover when Ubuntu 9:04 comes out - doubt it will recognise BeOS still, but I can always see how the Be boot manager copes afterwards. It was always the best chooser.
BeOS then - now, I would like to carry on following the trends, such as Haiku and yellowdog, but since I have the original, I wanted to revive it, perhaps make a VMware VA image of it one day... I carefully selected to install everything, including the developer tools (yes, it seems to have a c++ compiler, whoopee!) which took it up from 200MB to a staggering 255MB or so. I guess I overcooked the partition size ;-)
Ass usual, it didnt have a graphics driver for my particular chipset, so I had a greyscale desktop instead of colour, but - you know what? I prefer it, its easier on the eyes, less strain. Great if you plan on spending long hours coding or some such. If I can ever boot back into it someday, it might become an environment I spend some quality time in,
Firing up the ol' PoorMan webserver, and creating the obligatory "Hello, world!" index.html page for it felt good. Perhaps I can even make it talk php and mysql one day. If not, I can always use SerialConnect and talk to the SGI Origin 2000 MMSC or a Cisco console port or two. All accompanied by the best ever CPU graph to ever grace a desktop.
What I will finish on is a quick note that I successfully managed to get BeOS to run inside the Bochs x86 emulator, v2.2.6 on an SGI Indigo2 10000 running IRIX 6.5. back in 2006. (Screenshots coming when I retrieve them off the appropriate disk).
BeOS lives! =D
Back to the point, I created 4 ~ 10GB or so partitions, a partition map scheme which completely failed because Windows XP didnt recognise the FAT partition I made, and I had to erase it and start over - and also Ubuntu took several install attempts, why I wrangled with LVM and encryption. Of course, I realised that I would need some unencrypted space (say ~1GB to be generous) for an ext2|3 /boot partition. But now I had used 4 primaries, and had no space for a swap! Numerous false starts later, I finally got encryption and LVM settled down, a space for / and swap contained within, hurrah!
But then the Ubuntu Server edition rebooted after copying all the files on, and came up with an error about PAE missing from the celeron processor in my HP Pavilion ZE21055EA notebook. Damn! With a sprinkling of Blast!, as the Grub bootloader doesnt recognise anything as being installed on my BeFS partion, i.e. BeOS. So I have a triple boot laptop which only runs Windows XP =(
I might be able to recover when Ubuntu 9:04 comes out - doubt it will recognise BeOS still, but I can always see how the Be boot manager copes afterwards. It was always the best chooser.
BeOS then - now, I would like to carry on following the trends, such as Haiku and yellowdog, but since I have the original, I wanted to revive it, perhaps make a VMware VA image of it one day... I carefully selected to install everything, including the developer tools (yes, it seems to have a c++ compiler, whoopee!) which took it up from 200MB to a staggering 255MB or so. I guess I overcooked the partition size ;-)
Ass usual, it didnt have a graphics driver for my particular chipset, so I had a greyscale desktop instead of colour, but - you know what? I prefer it, its easier on the eyes, less strain. Great if you plan on spending long hours coding or some such. If I can ever boot back into it someday, it might become an environment I spend some quality time in,
Firing up the ol' PoorMan webserver, and creating the obligatory "Hello, world!" index.html page for it felt good. Perhaps I can even make it talk php and mysql one day. If not, I can always use SerialConnect and talk to the SGI Origin 2000 MMSC or a Cisco console port or two. All accompanied by the best ever CPU graph to ever grace a desktop.
What I will finish on is a quick note that I successfully managed to get BeOS to run inside the Bochs x86 emulator, v2.2.6 on an SGI Indigo2 10000 running IRIX 6.5. back in 2006. (Screenshots coming when I retrieve them off the appropriate disk).
BeOS lives! =D
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