{"id":103,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=103"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"test-compatibility-without-partitioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Test compatibility without partitioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BeOS demo CD is no longer available from Be, but if you&#8217;d like to know whether your system is ready to run BeOS <i>before<\/i> carving out a partition on your hard drive, just put a BeOS installation CD (either Pro or one <a href=\"\/chunga.php?ID=526\">you&#8217;ve created<\/a> from Personal Edition) in the drive and boot from floppy or by telling your computer&#8217;s BIOS to boot from CD. If you can make it all the way to the first graphical installer screen, you&#8217;ll know that your motherboard chipset and video card are basically compatible. To test for sound, network, and other I\/O card compatibility, you&#8217;ll need to go farther.<br \/>\nFrom this point, you can manually launch the rest of BeOS. After clicking Agree at the installer screen, hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T on the left side of your keyboard to open a Terminal. Type:<\/p>\n<pre>\n\/system\/Tracker &amp;\n\/system\/Deskbar &amp;\n<\/pre>\n<p>and you&#8217;ll be running BeOS. Minimize the Installer &#8211; don&#8217;t close it, or your system will reboot!<br \/>\nAndreas (korp@bigfoot.com) adds the following:<br \/>\nAs an alternative to launching Tracker and Deskbar manually, you can hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up TaskManager, and click &#8222;Restart the Desktop&#8220; to have them launched automatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BeOS demo CD is no longer available from Be, but if you&#8217;d like to know whether your system is ready to run BeOS before carving out a partition on your hard drive, just put a BeOS installation CD (either Pro or one you&#8217;ve created from Personal Edition) in the drive and boot from floppy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}