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Subject: BeOS

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Garrett Derner

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Date Posted: 16:52:12 11/02/99 Tue

So far, I have not had that much luck installing BeOS 4.5 on my Vivante SE.

After I got over the boot-partition-hurdle (detailed below), I wound up with a BeOS which was limited to monochrome vga video & no audio.

Before I got that far, the first hurdle was to realize that the partition containing the OS boot layer must start within the first 2 gigabytes of the drive, that is, under cylinder 1024. That meant I needed to use Partition Magic to juggle partitions around a bit.

(Most OSs I've tried have this boot cylinder limitation. BeOS 4.5; Win2000 RC2; Linux Slackware & Red Hat versions from about a year ago: all need to start in the lower 2 gigs of the drive. Only Windows 98 seems to get around the limitation somehow, and boot fine, no matter where you put its partition.)

Once I put the BeOS partition low enough (the install did not warn about the limitation, so I had to find out on my own), the install completed. However, it could not find a driver for the Transmonde's video. So BeOS can only boot in "safe mode," with monochrome 640*480 vga, and no sound.

MS-Windows, BTW, was selectable, and still worked fine. The install lets you put in a boot manager for all your OSs.

Next hurdle is look for drivers for the video. Then see if the sound works...

-gARRETT

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