The latest old BeOS should be R5.The best choice would probably be to download one of the BeOS Max editions, especially Beos Max V4, which you could get from www.beosmax.org (currently it does not respond).
Download the beos-image, the corresponding boot-image(you have to look either for the intel or the amd-image - choose the right one for your computer) and the corresponding .cue-file, which instructs Nero on how-to burn the two images one after another onto the CD.
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Present:BeOS 5 PE Max Edition V2 is based on PE and not on beosonline Developers edition. I rebuild it from scratch, downloading and installing all the drivers, patches and freeware/demos myself. That helped me to create aclean system without any old stuff from the start. I had most packages added as user selectable. However as with any .0 edition there were several problems. Some stuff were broken due to the luck of testingtime. Booting was not always working from the CD, because of my luck of knowledge on el-torito boot images. Those problems are now solved and I am moving towards the release of V2.1 (November 23rd). One major addition will be the ability to select which patched kernel to use after installation (AthlonXP or Pentium4). Also the CD creation process will be documented for BeOS(cdrecord), Windows (Nero and Easy CD Creator) and Linux (cdrecord) with boot images for both AthlonXP and P4.
Just create a 600 MB FAT32 partition and install BeOS 5 PE there. If you got trouble with AthlonXP or Pentium4s, just download one of these 3-4 BeOS distros that include the patches for these CPUs by default.
So, you might be lucky on quite some hardware, but you might need to download and install manually some drivers from Bebits on the way. BeOS was released in March 2000. Any hardware released later than that date, it will have to be either unsupported, or supported by third parties on Bebits.
There is a way to use the iso as a beos install just like the PE was. I think there is a tip also at betips about using it that way. I think it is something like just make a subdirectory /beos and put the iso there (renamed image.be).
This version of BeOS is the Personal Edition, which can be downloaded freely from the Internet and installed under Windows. Under Windows 95 and Windows 98 you can just double click an icon to exit Windows and start this version of BeOS. On ME or NT 4 or later you can use a boot floppy to start the installed BeOS.
Your instructions make the installation process much more lengthy than necessary. It is completely unnecessary to burn any CD's -- just allow VMware to attach directly to the ISO files you've downloaded.
R5 was the first release of BeOS for x86 to have a freely downloadable version which could be fully installed on a user's hard drive; previous versions had a free Live CD download, which could not be installed. R5 was also to be the last version to support the PowerPC architecture which BeOS had originated on, including the company's own BeBox hardware. According to Be's marketing, it was the first OS to ship with legal MP3 encoding and decoding support.
Personal Edition, a 48MB download, was the most commonly used version of R5. Stripped of developer tools (though these were later made available as a separate download), mp3 and Indeo encoders, and RealPlayer, it was installed into a 500MB "hardfile" through Windows or Linux, and could be booted either directly from Windows 9x or DOS, or using a boot floppy. Once booted, it could be installed to a real hard drive or partition, and the Be Bootloader could be installed to allow dual-booting. This bootloader uses only the MBR of the hard disk, and will continue to function even if the BeOS is uninstalled.
R5.01 was mainly a stability fix for R5 Professional, fixing some deadlocks in drivers and critical servers. However, additional POSIX support was again added for networking, although the update neglected to include the newer headers to use some of these functions - they were only available in an updated Developer Tools for Personal Edition download.
The source code of SheepShaver (and Basilisk II) is being hosted in a Git repository on GitHub: Main page of the GitHub repository Download the most current source code as a zip file (2MB) To download the current version of the repository via Git:
(Update: this project appears to be gone.)EOS is an operating system that intends to be able to run programs fromWindows, Linux,MS-DOS,BEOS, andAmigaOS. You thus don't need to worry about whatoperating system the program is designed for, just download it and run it. It is based on Linux andFreeBSD, and uses code from various otherprojects like WINE and ReactOS (see other entries on theWindows clones page).
You can download the latest VICE distribution here.If you want to help improving the official ports and/or want to provide binaries, please get in touch with us.Occasionally we might upload unofficial test buildshere.
Frotz - BeOS Emulator is available to download for Z-Machine Infocom. This emulator works in maximum quality on the Other platform and is developed by Frotz Team. Download Frotz - BeOS to play Z-machine ROMs on your device. Cross-platform Z-Machine Infocom Emulators are available only at EmulatorGames.net for multiple platforms to run your games.
If you want to want to test your computer for BeOS compatibility without setting aside a partition first, try downloading BeOS 5 Personal Edition -- it's the ultimate hardware compatibility test.For compatibility information regarding BeOS for PowerPC release, seeour BeOS ReadySystems -- PowerPC list.
If your card is VESA compatible, you can run in VESA mode long-term if you can't obtain a compatible video card or driver for your existing card. Please note in VESA mode you cannot make use of hardware acceleration or screen savers.If you don't have a compatible graphics card, you can run BeOSusing the lowest common denominator SuperVGA "safe boot" graphics mode (640by 480, 8-bit grayscale at worst; you can do better if your graphics card is VESA 2.0-compliant). While this should work for nearly any graphics card,SuperVGA mode is intended to allow you to install and boot BeOS, and useit long enough to download a real graphics driver for your system. It isnot a long-term solution, and does not show the capabilities of BeOS. 2ff7e9595c
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