{"id":55,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=55"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"launch-beos-x86-from-doswin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Launch BeOS x86 from DOS\/Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BeOS x86 install CD includes a directory called BeLaunch which allows you to launch BeOS by clicking an icon. Even better, it includes a DOS batch file called beos.bat which lets you launch BeOS without having to wait for Windows to load first.<br \/>\nCopy the BeLaunch folder to you hard drive, CD to that folder, and type <b>beos<\/b>. If everything is set up properly, you should boot straight into BeOS. The included notes say it doesn&#8217;t work on dual-processor machines, but it works fine on mine. If it works properly, you&#8217;re all set to boot into BeOS without launching Windows.<br \/>\nAs your machine is booting, keep your finger on the F8 key. When you see the line &#8222;Starting Windows 95,&#8220; hit F8 and choose Command Line Only from the menu to arrive at a DOS prompt. You can now CD to the BeLaunch directory and type <b>beos<\/b>.<br \/>\nTo make it even easier, rename beos.bat to b.bat and move or copy the file into your C: root so you don&#8217;t have to CD to the right directory first. Alternatively, add the BeLaunch directory to your path.<br \/>\nTo automate all of this even more, see the tip Create a Win95\/BeOS Boot Menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BeOS x86 install CD includes a directory called BeLaunch which allows you to launch BeOS by clicking an icon. Even better, it includes a DOS batch file called beos.bat which lets you launch BeOS without having to wait for Windows to load first. Copy the BeLaunch folder to you hard drive, CD to that [&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-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}