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| Re: unusually large system caches |
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By mmu_man - Posted on February 23, 2003 - 21:21:57 (#6045)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Check in ~/config/settings/kernel/drivers/kernel
that disk_cache_size isn't set to something too high...
(I presume they forced 16384 as it prevent ppl from crashing in case they have too much RAM... but it also makes other swap more)
Change the figure to something like 2048, 4096 or just comment the line out.
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| unusually large system caches |
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By carmiac - Posted on February 23, 2003 - 16:47:55 (#6040)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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I have noticed that with Max Edition ProcessController regularly shows system caches to be taking up 100+MB of ram on my system which only has 128MB. This seriously impacts system performance at times due to swappiness. This didnt happen with my regular Pro install. Has anyone else had this problem?
Otherwise I am really liking this distro. Keep up the good work.
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| Need help! |
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By gmiranda - Posted on February 20, 2003 - 22:41:55 (#6013)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Hi all! A friend of mine tried to install BeOS MAX 2.1 on his system:
-Intel P4 1.7Ghz
-768MB SDRAM
-Gigabyte motherboard(he doesn't know more about it, but I think it has an i845 chipset)
-Hercules Radeon 8500LE
-40GB Seagate hdd with a 10GB of free space(where BeOS was planned to be installed to)
He told me that when booting from the CD, all the icons of the loading screen turned on,and then,the screen turned off.
Thanks for any help!
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| Still no Joy |
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By satch - Posted on February 20, 2003 - 21:28:19 (#6010)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Got the build Max2.1 onto a bootable CD; boots & installs fine, restart computer and receive errors:
The Application /boot/apps/Tracker has encountered and error which prevents it from continuing
The Application /boot/apps/QuickStrip has encountered and error which prevents it from continuing
The Application /boot/apps/DeskBar has encountered and error which prevents it from continuing.
After this happens the first time, I only get a blank screen. I 3-finger reboot, and get all the same messages, but the menu/task bar appears at the bottom of the screen. I can select from the menus, but no application will start. All I can do is shut down or restart
Hardware P200MMx, 128MB ram, 4GB Hdd.
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| Got working image |
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By satch - Posted on February 20, 2003 - 00:10:57 (#5998)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Found a different *zip source through SourceForge site, which had the floppy*.img files; followed instructions, and created working boot disk!
Now we see if it installs on my hardware....
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| Try this... |
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By chinasaur - Posted on February 19, 2003 - 22:32:00 (#5994)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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I had trouble with my Max install as well. I downloaded the file again AND burned it at 2X rather than the 4X I usually burn .iso's (I know it's not an .iso).
Download again and/or burn at half the speed as before.
Hope you get it running soon. Beats running Pro...at least for me.
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| unuseable CD image |
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By satch - Posted on February 19, 2003 - 22:01:14 (#5993)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Following instructions to create bootable BeOS cdrom was not successful. I was using cdrecord on linux, as per instructions obtained through this site. The *.zip file i rec'd had the BeOSxx.img, and a boot.img, but not either the floppXP.img, or the amdA7(whatever).img.
I tried to create the CD with the boot.img with no success. I have created many bootable cd's with this drive, so hardware is not the issue.
I would really like to get this working; I have been using the windows executable image, and I am very impressed with the speed and stability.
Satch
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| Via 8233A driver |
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By tothb1 - Posted on February 18, 2003 - 05:23:00 (#5972)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Hi!
Thanks help:
Need boot on safe mode and set true DMA disabled, and User*.
I search Via8233A driver (Ac97) for Epox 8k3a+ motherboard.(Beta driver?)
Can you help me?
Thanks!
Toti
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| BEOS boot |
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By tothb1 - Posted on February 17, 2003 - 13:12:34 (#5965)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Hi!
I download BeOS5PEMaxEditionV21.zip. Unzip under linux, and write install cd with cdrecorder:
cdrecord dev=0,3,0 speed=4 -v -data floppyXP.img BeOS5PEMaxEditionV21.img
Restart computer, and after boot screen (highlight devices icons) froze machine. I tried start with SAFE MODE, but after boot screen eject cd, and restart computer.
(AMD Xp 2200, EPOX 8k3a+, Matrox G550 dualhead)
Please help me!
(Sorry my bad english)
Toti
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| RE:bad mime type |
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By vasper - Posted on February 5, 2003 - 22:09:00 (#5750)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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It is not a problem with the server, but rather that the site doesn't support PHP.
The server I had the site on before did.
The server I am moving the files to does.
I didn't change the names to *.htm because I didn't have the time.
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| bad mime type |
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By ahwayakchih - Posted on February 5, 2003 - 09:03:58 (#5739)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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main.php is returned to browser as text/plain :(
i tied that page in both net+ and mozilla, and i always get html source instead of rendered page (yes i can read page that way, but it's way less comfortable ;)
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| More info on MAX Edition |
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By Eugenia - Posted on February 5, 2003 - 04:06:44 (#5738)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Please use this URL for more information on MAX Edition and how to create the ISO cdrom:
http://www.cybersolutions.gr/vasper.net/main.php
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| I noticed that after writing the post sorry ^^ |
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By gmiranda - Posted on February 2, 2003 - 18:29:08 (#5700)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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| try sourceforge |
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By ahwayakchih - Posted on February 1, 2003 - 21:12:48 (#5686)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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| dead home page? |
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By gmiranda - Posted on February 1, 2003 - 19:04:15 (#5682)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Since early January I cannot load www.vasper.net Is this dead?
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| CD Label and insert? |
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By Topher - Posted on January 29, 2003 - 19:14:38 (#5629)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Anyone got a good cd label and insert for the jewel case that they'd care to share? I've got a scan of the BeOS 5 Pro jewel case inserts, but I'd prefer to have one specific to the MAX edition. Also, I have little to no graphic design skills and wouldn't do justice to a label for this cd. BTW - I'm using an old version of Surething Labeller - v1.3 or so. Thanks.
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| Note |
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By Jess - Posted on January 14, 2003 - 08:06:58 (#5353)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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This is a simple over sight. My Distro actualyl has the patch as a driver option because os a "situation" simply adding it can create. IF you add the patched driver you destroy compatability with older ATI cards such as rage 2c cards. The screen bleeds horizontally & cards of the chipset you use are reccognised & run fine (I'm using one right now 1024x768 75 htz 32 bit) - DONT add the patched driver & keep the support for cards like the rage lc2's & others & end up in vesa with a rage pro 128. I have the feeling I'm going to give in to all this Distro crap & add to the confusion. I released my distro (BeWicked Edition) quite some time ago & had to can it due to too much demand. My bandwidth just couldnt deal with it, but the over sights & just plain silly ass things going on are almost enough to promt me to jump in & show how it's done. My distro is designed for either PE use or install CD & has the exact look of a Retail PRO CD but with updated drivers & scripts to help guide a user add features not normally in ANY one's distro & all the must have software up to date. Now having plugged the hell out of my distro I may finnish updating it & such & re-release if I can find a heafty enough host.
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| Yes |
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By Jess - Posted on January 14, 2003 - 07:54:11 (#5352)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Simple you do not have the patched driver. Be sees the card but cannot start it - just grab the patch. here on bebits
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| Rage Pro card problems |
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By tr3136 - Posted on January 13, 2003 - 18:56:16 (#5347)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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I have an Althlon 1.3 Ghz system with an ATI Xpert2000 graphics card. On BeOS 5 PE and Pro it works fine. When I tried installing MAX v2.1, the card was recognized, but all I got was greyscale 640X480.
Any ideas????
Thanks
Tom
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| installation instructions Link |
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By vasper - Posted on January 12, 2003 - 13:17:09 (#5304)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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http://www.cybersolutions.gr/vasper.net/cd_creationIndex.htm
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| Installing BEOS MAX edition under WIN 2000 |
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By ralphsmole - Posted on January 5, 2003 - 22:39:43 (#5178)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Just downloaded the BEOS MAX edition, have unzipped the archive into a folder. How do I install this? The BeOS personal edition had an installer to create boot floppy,etc..this does not. I am NEW to BeOS, how do I install this??
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| Brokeon CD Creation Link |
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By Icewarp - Posted on January 4, 2003 - 16:33:41 (#5140)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Hi, the link describing the CD creation has expired. Thanks.
Icewarp
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| Alien |
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By aphex - Posted on January 1, 2003 - 15:59:14 (#5076)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Try installing BeOS R5 Personal edition on a FAT/ext2 partition and replace the image.be with the BeOS Max Edition iso (rename IT image.be). Use a bootfloppy to boot into beos, then you can hopefully install it.
BeOS R5 PE can be found on bebits.
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| Alien |
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By Alien_EBM - Posted on December 24, 2002 - 19:09:37 (#4995)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Please mail to Alien_EBM@hotmail.com how to install BeOS Max without CD-R.Thenks for understanding!
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| prob i810 BME V2.1 ------------- |
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By mral - Posted on December 23, 2002 - 04:50:37 (#4973)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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bueno senores esto es para los que tienen board con chipset intel i810 y cuando intentan instalar ell BeOS ME 2.1 se tranca inexplicablemente luego del boot del cd. Lo primero que deben hacer es arrancar el cd de booteado y apenas aparece la pantalla de loading presione barra espaciadora para que salga el boot loader. Alli asegurese de que bootee desde el cd, y en el menu de opciones escoge la opcion de safe mode para video... esa es la clave de todo... bueno ahora continue con el booteado, y la pantalla de instalacion les saldra blanco y negro ... ok.. esto es lo que pasa... por ejemplo yo tengo un PIII de 600 ..y demostre que no era el procesador que era muy viejo.. sino que la combinacion de este con la tarjeta de video ... no trabajan... bueno ... siguiendo haga una instalacion normal... luego arranque el sistema ya instalado usando nuevamente el safe mode de video... se vera de nuevo todo en blanco y negro pase a la aplicacion de uninstall y desinstale el driver de ATI Radeon que seguro estara instalado... si no esta bueno perfecto un problema menos.... salga del programa y listo... jejeje.. otra cosa esto solo sirve si tienes una particion de windows instalada ... luego entra a windows e instala en esa misma particion el BeOS PE 5 ..... rebootea ... y en la pantalla de booteado .... claro que para esto debiste instalar el boot manager de BeOS mientras instalaba el BeOS ME ..... entonces presionas barra espaciadora y escoges bootear desde Personal Edition .... entras a la version de beos que instalastes en la particion de windows y te vas a la aplicacion installer.... alli le diras que instale el PE a la particion donde tienes instalado ME y listo....!!!!!! espera que termine y luego booteas al sistema que era ME... y voala!!! esta el sistema con todos los add instalados pero esta vez si reconoce tu tarjeta de video y podras luego hacerle un update a la version PE 5.03 si quieres desde alli y quedara todo igualito que si le hubieras metido el ME.... bueno lo de los parches de seguridad no sep.... pero creo que si los programas se quedaron eso tambien... bueno eso tengo que investigarlo todavia... hey hermano suerte.. y si usan esto en otro lugar.. por fa por lo menos pongan mi nombre... ok suerte ... Mr.@L
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| Install CD hangs |
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By vasper - Posted on December 18, 2002 - 09:45:06 (#4863)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Go to the forums at crux.sourceforge.net, or to vasper.net and click on the Max Forums. Help and tips are available there. Not every configuration works out of the box. BeOS is really outdated in hardware support and even Max can do so much.
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| Install CD hangs |
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By cdlyon - Posted on December 18, 2002 - 05:06:00 (#4859)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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I downloaded Max under Windows and un-zipped and everything seemed OK. I used Nero5.5 to burn the install CD. Again, everything seemed fine.
When I boot using the CD the loader splash screen appears and the icons successively light up which I assume means that the system is polling the hardware. But at the end of that sequence, the system just sits there and nothing further happens. The CD drive light is off at that point.
BTW, I have an AthlonXP system and did use the correct CUE file as part of the burn process per the instructions from Vasper.
Any help???
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| OK, 64bit it is then! |
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By Sandyw - Posted on December 14, 2002 - 20:47:04 (#4790)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Thanks for the response Vasper. Now I understand.
I should have realised, but sometimes the obvious things get overlooked in my enthusiasm!
I'll try again using some other approaches, but maybe I just have to concede that I need to get hold of a BeOS friendly CD Writer. Any Suggetsions?
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| Why not just an update? |
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By filo - Posted on December 14, 2002 - 18:33:43 (#4786)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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I think the main reason that he has not simply put together an update is so that people can download a BeOS that works "out of the box" on newer systems (i.e. Athlon XPs, faster IDE controllers, etc).
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| why not just an update? |
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By dumbsage - Posted on December 14, 2002 - 16:55:56 (#4785)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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why not just build an update for existing beos r5.0.3+ users?
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| Again |
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By Graham227 - Posted on December 14, 2002 - 03:01:20 (#4780)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Maybe I am jinxed, as I now have my 4th corrupt zip of this version.
Anyways I gave up and downloaded the image from http://www.beosonline.com and that unpacked fine.
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| Corrupt Zip |
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By Graham227 - Posted on December 13, 2002 - 17:29:43 (#4772)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Ok, I shall download for the 4th time this zip and see if I can unzip it this time.
Now using a different machine , and also running SUSE 8.1.
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| Why not ISO Images? APPLIES TO ALL BEOS EDITIONS |
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By vasper - Posted on December 13, 2002 - 09:54:16 (#4763)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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BeOS images are ISO images. But not Iso Images in the sence Windows or Linus see them. Those ISO contain FAT32 or FAT16 compliant filesystems. ISO9660 compiant is a FAT32 system. BeOS uses BeFS which is a 64bit journaling filesystem that stores a lot of the file info in different places such as Attributes. If we where to create an installation of BeOS using a classic Iso image (one that can be read by IsoBuster) it wouldn't Install !!!! If you copied files out of it to BeOS, some of them would be useless.
Installation of BeOS requires BeFS Images. THATS IT. And we won't fix it. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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| Why not ISO images? |
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By Sandyw - Posted on December 13, 2002 - 01:06:11 (#4755)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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A couple of points -
1) I downloaded via http OK, unzipped OK, but the main .img file is reported to be corrupt/invalid (using ISObuster and CDmage from Windows). Looks like I'm not the only one.
and (at the risk of incurring the wrath of the hardcore BeOS community):-
2) I would much prefer to use iso images as a format for CD creation. I have BeOS already up & running on my system but cdrecord does not function correctly with my Iomega Zip650 CD writer so I am stuck. This is made even more frustrating considering the fact that I spent 16 hours waiting for the MaxEdition download to complete (standard line, free call time). I have downloaded some other software to handle the .img format but with not much success as it doesn't allow CD creation (ISObuster 1.2). I also run Linux but that is out of action at the moment, so maybe I will have more luck there in the future(assuming the file corruption reported is a error due to using Windows (CDmage & ISObuster) software to investigate the image files).
So in conclusion, if you want to convert adventurous Windows users, and keep them onside thus expanding the BeOS community then it would be a really good idea to provide ISO images (as are provided for many Linux Distros). We all have bad hardware days when there is little choice but to switch back to Windows...
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| Corrupt archive? |
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By s_d - Posted on December 12, 2002 - 11:39:35 (#4732)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Let's try to inpack it from Terminal with unzip command
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| Corrupt? No. Just retry with another downloader, or without one. |
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By vasper - Posted on December 12, 2002 - 10:42:16 (#4731)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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Nope. Otherwise noone would have installed Max!!!
That simple.
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| what is corrupted? |
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By ahwayakchih - Posted on December 12, 2002 - 09:58:56 (#4729)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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i downloaded it, unpacked and burned cd.
cd worked - i could boot from it and run installation (i didn't install it because i already have BeOS ;)
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| This release is corrupt!!!!! |
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By Graham227 - Posted on December 11, 2002 - 23:52:36 (#4722)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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I have also downloaded this from 3 different mirrors and all of them are corrupt!!!
What a waste of time!
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| After downloading cannot unzip |
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By procosm - Posted on December 11, 2002 - 03:01:06 (#4704)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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I downloaded Beos Max Edition 2.1 and afte openning in Expander and clicking expand it gave an error message:
Wrong expansion rule or file maybe corrupted. I downloaded the file with Netpositive downloader because I only have a dialup connection and this supports stopping then retrying stopped downloads. I have used this successfully with many other quite large downloads. I have not been able to expand either this 2.1 version or the previous 2.0v. Does anyone know if I am doing something wrong or am I just unlucky in downloading two corrupted files?
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| No nvidia driver- have to use vesa mode |
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By zpixel - Posted on December 3, 2002 - 04:50:37 (#4558)
Current version when comment was posted: 2.1 |
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The release notes say the nvidia driver is automatically installed, but not for me. I using a Geforce 2 MX200. I have to use vesa mode to see anything on the screen. Otherwise the screen is black
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