NF3 250 and BeOS
Davros
Greetings, all.
I have an actual BeOS pressed CD, R5.0 that I thought I would install on a
partition on my main computer. I admire BeOS and read about it, say it
demoed over the years and such. Managed to use it as an awesome diagnostic
tool in the past, but I am not a "Be user" and as such do not know what I
am doing.
I just thought it would be neat to have as many alternative OSs as I
could on my overly large hard drive. :-)
However, when I put the disc in and reboot the computer, it shows the
BeOS title screen for a few seconds then reboots the computer. This
continues until the CD is removed.
Could someone please tell me if it is hopeless to install Be on a more
modren machine? I didn't expect it to have drivers for everything or
performance to be that great on a newer machine, but I figured it would
boot up and basically work. Are we past the point where Be can figure out
a BIOS/CPU and DVD-ROM drive?
Thanks.
My Sandra report:
Processor
Model : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Speed : 2.01GHz
Model Number : 3000 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR3014 (estimated)
Type : Standard
L2 On-board Cache : 512kB ECC Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way set, 64 byte
line size
Mainboard
Bus(es) : ISA AGP PCI USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
MP Support : 1 CPU(s)
MP APIC : No
System BIOS : Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG
Mainboard : nForce-CK8S
Total Memory : 1.5GB DDR-SDRAM
Chipset 1
Model : Nvidia Corp nforce3 CPU to PCI Bridge
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 804MHz (1608MHz data rate)
Chipset 2
Model : Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 / Opteron HyperTransport
Technology Configuration
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 804MHz (1608MHz data rate)
Total Memory : 1.5GB DDR-SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 167MHz (334MHz data rate)
Video System
Monitor/Panel : Plug and Play Monitor
Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Physical Storage Devices
Removable Drive : Floppy disk drive
Hard Disk : Maxtor 94098U8 (38GB)
Hard Disk : WDC WD2000JB-00GVA0 (186GB)
Hard Disk : WDC WD600BB-75CAA0 (56GB)
CD-ROM/DVD : HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B (CD 52X Rd) (DVD 7X Rd)
CD-ROM/DVD : ATAPI DVD DD 2X16X4X16 USB Device
Peripherals
Serial/Parallel Port(s) : 1 COM / 2 LPT
USB Controller/Hub : Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub : Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub : USB Mass Storage Device
FireWire/1394 Controller/Hub : VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host
Controller
Infrared Device : Built-in Infrared Device
Keyboard : Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse : HID-compliant mouse
Human Interface : USB Human Interface Device
MultiMedia Device(s)
Device : NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Codec Interface
Device : Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II (Encoder/Decoder)
Power Management
AC Line Status : On-Line
Earl Colby Pottinger
> However, when I put the disc in and reboot the computer, it shows the
> BeOS title screen for a few seconds then reboots the computer. This
> continues until the CD is removed.
> Model : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
> Model : Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 / Opteron HyperTransport
The original BeOS will have problems booting on a recent CPU - Check out
http://mmadia.zelect.org/files/boot_archive/ to get a floppy boot image to
start up BeOS. Once booted it is possible to install BeOS and the boot image
on your hard drive so it boot completely from the partition.
Otherwise go to www.bebits.com and look for the BeOS 5 PE Max to get you
started. Since you have the 5.0 BeOS disk and it can be upgraded to 5.03 you
can go either way. Check out:
http://www.bebits.com/app/3148
http://www.bebits.com/app/3892
http://www.bebits.com/app/3905
Hope that helps.
Earl Colby Pottinger
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Davros
Thank you very much. I had no idea. That info sounds like it will be a
great help. I will definitly try it out.
Thank you, very, very much.
m4r...@xs4a11.nl
> Total Memory : 1.5GB DDR-SDRAM
I think that's your problem right there. Try taking out some of the
memory and try again.