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An Easy Method for Installing Haiku

Aug 19, 2005 00:22 UTC, by Chris Simmons, Senior Journalist.
From the as easy as 1-2-3 department...

Got some spare time and an itch to try out the latest Haiku snapshot? Karl writes in with an easy install method for anyone wanting to try Haiku, using a BeOS Max Live CD.

Assuming you've setup your disk with a partition to install Haiku on, grab a copy of BeOS Max Edition v3.1b (our torrent.) and burn it.

Now download the latest raw disk image of Haiku from http://www.schmidp.com/index.php?option=com_files&path=/haiku/images/ (our 2005_08_08_raw.zip torrent.) and leave it somewhere on your hard drive.

Boot from the BeOS Max disk now, and run it as a live CD. Navigate to the hard drive you saved the Haiku RAW image to and mount it by using the ImageMounter add-on.

Click on the Deskbar menu and go to Applications/Development/Installer.

Change 'Install from' to 'Haiku', and change 'Onto' to the partition you wish to install Haiku onto. I already had a BeFS partition already. My install took about 3 minutes on a P4 2.2 GHz.

After you can even choose to install the bootloader.

To sum it up, you'll need:

BeOS Max Edition v3.1b (or any other way to load a BeOS environment with Tracker.)
a RAW image of Haiku
the ImageMounter add-on

Thanks Karl for that super tip! I'm sure some of our readers have additional helpful info in regards to using Haiku, and we encourage anyone to contact us about it. We will pass on more of this type of special knowledge as we get it.

*edited to add ImageMouner add-on instructions, and summary...**