“Over the past month, community member ‘mmadia’ has been re-working the site for his extensive BeOS Boot Floppy/CD Collection. The goal of the site is to provide every combination of necessary boot-time patches, such as the AMD Athlon XP patch, RAM Limiter, IDE replacement drivers, and so forth. The site allows you to choose various options and then it creates a downloadable file with which you can burn onto a CD or write to a floppy diskette.”
Comments on BeOs’ demise and usefullness aside, this seems to be a truly innovative approach…BeOs continuing to do things simply, effectively, and creatively!
Being able to offer this level of flexibility is something I haven’t really seen.
Closest thing is that famed (and flawed) Google Pack, where you choose your software and get the customized download.
Any idea how well this functions? Anyone tried it?
That is pretty cool. This should make it a lot easier for people wanting to install BeOS. I’m not crazy about mmadia’s email address, but to each their own.
Yeah, I see what you mean about the email address. Kinda takes away from the coolness factor of what is a very useful little project. But, as you say, to each his own.
Edited 2006-01-30 22:12
Thank god they are ready with boot CD! yesterday I uninstalled BEOS 5 because i had to boot it from floppy and I never managed to run BEOS because I have not used my floppy drive for ages! I dont have good running floppies. Its a late move but good one! I’ll try my hands on again on BEOS 5 with CD bootable option. Wish they also had boot loader!
The BeOS CDs (like BeOS R5 Pro) have always been bootable, AFAIK. You also get a boot floppy, should you ever need one. The bootmenu is known as ‘bootman’. Every OS has got a boot loader. Even BeOS.
In case anyone wonders, like I did, where the images are:
http://mmadia.zelect.org/files/boot_archive/?history=show
Edited 2006-01-31 11:45
The easy way, of course, is getting Zeta 1.1 and booting right away without having to worry about boot images. And you get all the RAM, not a 1GB limit.
That’s awesome. But I would rather spend $0 and get a free copy of BeOS which is very efficient when it comes to RAM, then spend what is it.. $100? on Zeta so I could use all of my RAM. Sorry, using all of my RAM isn’t worth $100.
Yay and hooray… now to try every damned one of those things on my system….
As jonas and other users have noticed, http://mmadia.zelect.org/files/boot_archive doesn’t yet render properly in some browsers such as Opera and IE.
My apologies for not thoroughly testing before launching the site. Work-arounds and code-refactoring are in place and continue to be added.
As such, there may be some hiccups and other brief lapses of functionality.
In regards to missing boot images, the History link will detail when new files have been added.
Thank you all for your interest.