Haiku OS demonstration

Hey, this is another demonstration of Haiku OS, see, is pretty fast, have a lot of applications out-of-the-box and run nicely in modest hardware. That is my EeePC 701.

Small demonstration of Haiku running on my EeePC

Haiku speed test, to boot and to turn off.

Installing Haiku OS in your computer How-To

Hi, in this tutorial you will see some easy steps to install Haiku OS in your computer.

You will use the Haiku Installer and boot manager, a Linux installation in another disk is needed
because we need it to create a partition.

Before start you need:
• USB Drive with at least 1GB (All data in there will be lost!)
• A computer able to boot up from an USB Drive, like a memory key.
• An IDE Hard Drive, all data may be lost!

Is highly recommended you have two hard drives, one running Linux and one to install Haiku.

First of all, go to Haiku website and download the latest RAW snapshot.
Now plug in you computer your USB Drive.

Open up a console and logged as root type: (Only what is in BOLD)
• dmesg (It will show you what file represents your USB drive)
Like that:
[megaf@OneClickOS ~]$ su
Password:
[root@OneClickOS megaf]# dmesg
…
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic Flash Disk 8.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 7890944 512-byte hardware sectors (4040 MB)

Delete all partitions in your memory key.

Unzip the raw image.
unzip http://haiku-files.org/raw/haiku-pre-alpha-gcc4-r30884-raw.zip

Now, lets use a tool called dd to transfer the raw snapshot to your usb drive.
dd if=haiku-alpha-gcc4.image of=/dev/sdb (in my case is sdb, check what is your drive in
dmesg result, this will take some time, about 10 minutes. Maybe less maybe more)
You may get something like 419430400 bytes (419 MB) copied, 197.898 s, 2.1 MB/s

OK, at this point you already have a Haiku LiveUSB system! But with only a few Mb to store
your files.

Now create a partition using your favorite partitioning tool and create a partition with 20Mb,
then create another one, with BeOS File System, where Haiku will be installed and your files stored,
save the changes, delete the first one partition and leave the space in blank, you need to do that because
the Haiku boot man wants this way, so… What can we do…

Right, turn your computer off, I recommend you to unplug your Linux disk to avoid troubles.
Configure your BIOS to boot up first via usb drive.

Save changes, plug the memory key and
start up.

Cool! Now you just got Haiku running in your computer, isn’t it cool?

To install this amazing system in your hard disk you will use a Haiku tool called Installer, just
type Installer in the Haiku Terminal.

Select where do you want to install. Wait until it copies all files, then press that button to make
bootable.

Now only one step left, close the installer and in the terminal type bootman and follow the
instructions.

Unplug your usb drive and restart your computer,

Well done!

Tutorial written by Megaf to all Open Source community and computer enthusiasts.