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§ñühw€£f
2009-09-10 15:13:01 UTC
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I'm trying to install BeOS onto a Dell lattitude D 600 laptop but I get
'no volumes' when the installer gets to the part where I need to choose
the disk to install onto.
The laptop is listed as working on the BeOS laptop page.
The drive is formatted FAT32 as one primary partition.
Any ideas?
Andreas Kohlbach
2009-09-11 01:16:07 UTC
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Post by §ñühw€£f
I'm trying to install BeOS onto a Dell lattitude D 600 laptop but I get
'no volumes' when the installer gets to the part where I need to choose
the disk to install onto.
The laptop is listed as working on the BeOS laptop page.
The drive is formatted FAT32 as one primary partition.
Any ideas?
Probably same problem (you use R5?) I had. There might be no driver for
S-ATA. Try Haiku instead.
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§ñühw€£f
2009-09-11 13:45:02 UTC
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Post by Andreas Kohlbach
Post by §ñühw€£f
I'm trying to install BeOS onto a Dell lattitude D 600 laptop but I get
'no volumes' when the installer gets to the part where I need to choose
the disk to install onto.
The laptop is listed as working on the BeOS laptop page.
The drive is formatted FAT32 as one primary partition.
Any ideas?
Probably same problem (you use R5?) I had. There might be no driver for
S-ATA. Try Haiku instead.
I got it installed by setting the boot options to "no ide dma" when the
BeOS splash screen first appears and you press spacebar.
Got the USB all patched up and now I'm working on getting the
networking all set up. Luckily I have a desktop machine running BeOS to
refer to.
Capsaicino
2009-09-11 12:40:50 UTC
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Post by §ñühw€£f
I'm trying to install BeOS onto a Dell lattitude D 600 laptop but I get
'no volumes' when the installer gets to the part where I need to choose
the disk to install onto.
The laptop is listed as working on the BeOS laptop page.
The drive is formatted FAT32 as one primary partition.
Any ideas?
You need to create partition with a BeFS type file system for BeOS
installation. If your FAT32 primary partition takes all the disk then
you have to resize or remove it so you can create a new partition on
the free space. BeOS installer should give you the option to partition
and format your drive. If you do not see a button for that (to open
Drive Setup application) then you may try to restkillart BeOS desktop
and run Drive Setup from Tracker: as far as I remember, hit Control +
Alt + Del, kill the install script process, click Restart Desktop,
close Process Manager and then close the installer.
§ñühw€£f
2009-09-11 13:46:53 UTC
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Post by Capsaicino
Post by §ñühw€£f
I'm trying to install BeOS onto a Dell lattitude D 600 laptop but I get
'no volumes' when the installer gets to the part where I need to choose
the disk to install onto.
The laptop is listed as working on the BeOS laptop page.
The drive is formatted FAT32 as one primary partition.
Any ideas?
You need to create partition with a BeFS type file system for BeOS
installation. If your FAT32 primary partition takes all the disk then
you have to resize or remove it so you can create a new partition on
the free space. BeOS installer should give you the option to partition
and format your drive. If you do not see a button for that (to open
Drive Setup application) then you may try to restkillart BeOS desktop
and run Drive Setup from Tracker: as far as I remember, hit Control +
Alt + Del, kill the install script process, click Restart Desktop,
close Process Manager and then close the installer.
Turned out BeOS was having trouble even seeing the hdd.
Setting "no ide dma" was the trick.
:)

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