Haiku Files releasing ISO images

Sunday, 30 August 2009 12:07

With the imminent release of the Haiku Alpha, Haiku-Files is now releasing ISO images for testing. Some people have been waiting a long time for this!

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0 # Zaranthos 2009-09-01 03:54

I'm in shock. I had about given up hope on ever getting an official bootable CD. Now I have to find the time to migrate my ancient Zeta server to Haiku and see if everything works.

Tried the ISO image from 9-30-09 and it worked pretty good. Had to disable IDE DMA (space bar to invoke boot menu) to get the CD to boot which was odd because after installing it to a hard drive that wasn't necessary to get Haiku to boot. Terribly slow installing though which was either because IDE DMA was disabled or there is no proper read/write cache happening. Finally an easy way to test on real hardware.

0 # karl 2009-09-01 05:49

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I'm in shock

hehe, it's good to see the excitement building up ;-)

0 # Senyru issue on MacBookPro — zenja 2009-09-01 08:46

Karl, just for your info, Senryu has always had a USB related problem (keyboard/mouse) on my MacBookPro. However, the Haiku images that I compile myself do NOT have this problem (keyboard and mouse work fine). I haven't really investigated the cause, but is Senryu also running an additional add-on which is causing this conflict? You may want to disable it ...

0 # Addition to above comment — zenja 2009-09-01 08:48

Sorry, forgot to mention what the problem was. It doesn't accept any input :-)

Even the caps lock key doesn't light up when pressed. Again, this problem doesn't exist with default Haiku setup, it is strictly a Senryu issue.

0 # karl 2009-09-01 09:05

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It doesn't accept any input

I'd be interested to know how you setup Haiku. I can't get the keyboard or mouse to work on my MacBook Pro, even with the default images at haiku-files. Last I heard it was a 'USB Polling' issue... I don't believe Senryu has any add-ons in this respect. I do add the Vmware add-ons, but they are disabled by default. In any case, not sure I'll be continuing Senryu now that ISO disk images are available for Haiku.

0 # MacBook mouse and keyboard? — kwag 2009-09-01 12:08

Hello,

I would LOVE to be able to try an ISO that will recognize my trackpad and keyboard on my (Black) MacBook. Is there any ISO image link I could download and try?
I did try today's Haiku ISO build (Early morning), and although it booted, I didn't have any trackpad. I had to use an external USB mouse, and that did work fine.

Thanks,
-Karl

P.D.
Karl? another Karl here?

Cheers!

0 # Iso File what is this? — BrunoBratwurst 2009-09-02 01:09

Would be nice to explain to the stupid one (me) how to use this iso file.

Remember BeOs/haiku should be easy to use.

0 # karl 2009-09-02 01:18

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Would be nice to explain to the stupid one (me) how to use this iso file.

LOL. It's a disc image that's meant to be burnt to CD. There's several programs you can use to burn it; i.e for Windows:

www.burnatonce.net/downloads/

Or IMGburn:

Quote:

http://www.imgburn.com/

Mac:

simplyburns.berlios.de/

0 # Zaranthos 2009-09-03 00:01

Isn't there still a valid reason to continue Senryu? The Haiku ISO images will be great but another ISO option with more pre-installed software would appeal to a lot of people. Does the Haiku ISO even come with full development tools? I didn't check.

0 # ZeroXp 2009-09-04 00:43

GooD,,!!!

0 # zenja 2009-09-05 12:30

Karl, vanilla Haiku works on my Oct 1996 generation MacBookPro (first C2D generation, with ATI X1600). I dont know about the Santa Rosa generation MBP.

0 # thenerd 2009-09-06 21:37

@Zaranthos - of course there are valid reasons to continue Senryu :-)

The Official Haiku releases will only be coming with a specific set of software. Senryu comes with a complete set of software that can be used right out of the box and saves time installing it for those who just want to play around without spending too much time. Senryu can also provide tools and features that may be developed outside of the Haiku project, that the Haiku folks don't want to include in their official distributions.

0 # I was out by a decade — zenja 2009-09-09 17:20

In my above post, I mistakenly wrote 1996 instead of 2006. (insert funny comment about time irrelevance here)

0 # 33104 works fine on MacBookPro — zenja 2009-09-13 09:50

Hi Karl. Just letting you know that with 33104, I've got mouse and keyboard working with no major glitches on a MacBookPro (Oct 2006 generation). My nForce590 desktop PC, however, now has mouse issues (both USB and PS/2), which was fine 3 months ago ...

0 # karl 2009-09-13 20:46

@zenja

Thanks for that info, I have the same model and am now going to try the official release and see what happens; will report back.

0 # karl 2009-09-13 23:02

@zenja, what is the model identifier of your MBP? Mine is 'MacBook 2,1'. The official alpha release doesn't boot completely on mine. It gets stuck at the red rocket. Same problem as the bug I reported years ago; the keypad and mouse don't work, so I can't even boot into safe mode (external mice and keyboards also don't work).

0 # karl 2009-09-13 23:19

I've also tried the release on my MacPro desktop and it also will not boot, also it has the same keyboard error. Thom from OSnews had the same problem with the keyboard. I had reported a month or so ago that this system worked, so I'm a little disappointed to find that it doesn't now!...

0 # MacBook Pro spec — zenja 2009-09-14 13:00

Hi Karl. From System Profiler:
Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,2
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.33 Ghz
Boot ROM Version: MBP22.00A5.B07
SMC Version (system): 1.12f5

The OS is SnowLeopard 10.6.1

Purchased in Oct 2006.

Haiku boots and is usable (on partition created with BootCamp), with the following issues:
- VESA resolution is limited to 1152x852 (blame the BIOS)
- Sound mixer is not initialised proprely
- Apple specific niceties (two finger right click / scroll, and the laptop special keys (brightness, volume etc) dont work.
- No Wireless (Broadcom chipset)

Every 2-3 months Haiku works better and better on the laptop (as drivers for similar hardware is developed). Eventually it will be 100% supported.

0 # zenja 2009-09-16 14:05

If I install OpenSoundSystem (OSS) on my MacBook Pro, then I seem to experience the problem Karl is reporting (no keyboard/mouse control). There seems to be some sort of conflict with OSS and the HDA driver. When I remove OSS, the MBP has working keyboard and mouse.

0 # karl 2009-09-16 20:00

@Zenja. Ya that's odd. Other people are experiencing the problem of no built-in mouse/keyboard as well. Seems it's the 2,1 model with the problem, and the 2,2 is fine as confirmed here:

www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/macbook_experiences

As you know though, OSS is an optional package, and I don't believe is shipped with the alpha.

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