{"id":498,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=498"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"install-personal-edition-on-a-beos-only-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Install Personal Edition on a BeOS-only machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you run a BeOS-only machine, you rock. But how do you install BeOS Personal Edition if you can&#8217;t boot into Windows and you don&#8217;t have a Linux installation? Simple. And you won&#8217;t have to worry about the 500MB partition size limitation, either.<br \/>\n First, download and decompress the BeOS4Linux package from one of the mirrors. It contains just the raw disk image and a floppy image. Create a new directory in your root, something like <code>\/BeOSR5<\/code>. Mount the image in the new directory, like this:<\/p>\n<pre>\nmkdir \/BeOSR5\nmount ~\/home\/Downloads\/image.be \/BeOSR5\n<\/pre>\n<p>Now just use the Installer app (in the Applications group in the Be menu). Choose the just-mounted volume as the From: volume and your existing BeOS installation (or a fresh partition) as the target. Let &#8218;er rip and 10 minutes later you&#8217;ll have BeOS 5 installed on that partition.<br \/>\nIf the mounted partition does not appear to Installer as a From: volume, use this technique instead:<\/p>\n<pre>copyattr -r -d \/BeOSR5\/* \/boot<\/pre>\n<p>where \/boot can be replaced by any volume name you want to install to or upgrade.<br \/>\nRe-run bootman if necessary so you can boot into the new OS from the boot menu, and you&#8217;re golden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you run a BeOS-only machine, you rock. But how do you install BeOS Personal Edition if you can&#8217;t boot into Windows and you don&#8217;t have a Linux installation? Simple. And you won&#8217;t have to worry about the 500MB partition size limitation, either. First, download and decompress the BeOS4Linux package from one of the mirrors. [&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":[8],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}