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Yeah and this explains also previous comment why it usually doesn't work in vmware or parallels

I have gotten it running in VMware just fine. Trick is to burn a physical CD, put it in the physical CD/DVD drive, and use CDROM RAW mode to access/boot to it in VMWare.

Also have to hit spacebar and choose the "failsafe" VESA graphics as VMware's video chipset is not supported and looks HORRIBLE in Zeta.

Zeta 1.21 also has a vlance driver now to support the VMWare native network chipset.

I have a .vmx file laying around somewhere that I used recently...

RE: using ISO9660 - unfortunately BeOS/Zeta/Haiku currently require BFS to boot because the attributes are required for some purposes (I don't know the details really)

Edited 2006-09-25 17:44

If burning a cue file is beyond your grasp, maybe you shouldn't be trying out alternitave operating systems.

The problem is that the only program in Linux that can burn it is Nero. And how hard can it be to support booting from an iso fs if even the most basic of os's like visopsys and syllable can do it?

It would be nice if the .cue file worked with any other burner software than Nero though because not everyone has Nero (or even Windows).
If creating a .cue file that isn't broken is beyond your grasp, maybe you shouldn't sell an alternative operating system.

You can't have an ISO image of any BeOS version becuase all of the files need to be held on a BeFS partition on the CD as the installed requires the meta data the file system contains. If you put them all onto an ISO 9660 file system you loose all of the meta data etc. without which BeOS won't even boot. It is not hard to burn the floppy disk boot image and the main installer disk image under windows or Linux. You can do it with free tools, instructions available here http://www.beosmax.org/wiki/index.php/Instructions_on_burning_a_BeO...

Just use nero or nero for linux to make it easy :-)
Works like a charm on FC5.

Edited 2006-09-26 04:46