An Easy Guide to Install Haiku

From Haiku Max Wiki

Got some spare time and an itch to try out the latest Haiku (http://haiku-os.org) snapshot? Karl writes in with an easy install method for anyone wanting to try Haiku, using a BeOS Max Live CD.

Assuming you've setup your disk with a partition to install Haiku on, grab a copy of BeOS Max Edition v3.1b (http://www.bebits.com/app/3148) (http://haikunews.org:6969/torrents/torrents/BeOS5PEMaxEditionV31b1.zip.torrent) and burn it.

Now download the latest raw disk image of Haiku from http://www.schmidp.com/index.php?option=com_files&path=/haiku/images/ (http://haikunews.org:6969/torrents/torrents/2005_08_08_raw.zip.torrent) and leave it somewhere on your hard drive

Boot from the BeOS Max disk now, and run it as a live CD. Once booted, right-click the Desktop and you should see a partition named Haiku (the one you downloaded) that's about 60mb. I downloaded my Haiku image to a Fat32 drive. Anyways, now mount it

Click on the Deskbar menu and go to Applications/Development/Installer,

Change 'Install from' to 'Haiku', and change 'Onto' to the partition you wish to install Haiku onto. I already had a BeFS partition already. My install took about 3 minutes on a P4 2.2 GHz.

After you can even choose to install the bootloader.

Thanks Karl for that super tip!