Thanks for that, If i decide to ever try it i'll keep that in mind.
Regards
Stuart

Jose Luiz Pinto Souto wrote:

> Yeah,
>
> A friend lend me the 4.5 and I cleaned 500Mbytes of my second HD
> to try the x86 version.
>
> The CD has an autorun script to install a custom Partition Magic version
>
> for Be. It installs and when you run it you may select a drive to make a
>
> Be partition. It does everything and at the end a window ask you to
> eject
> the CD and reboot with the boot floppy (???).
>
> Searching the CD (it always try to reinstall the Partition Magic...) I
> found
> a "booting" folder with cpimage.exe, make.bat and readme. Reading the
> "readme" it«s very iluminating, says to run the make.bat from any DOS
> window in Win95. I then opened a DOS window, switched to E: (my  CD)
> and "cd booting". From there I finnaly typed make<enter>.
> The swift cpimage.exe shows the usage and exited. The make.bat doesn«t
> work.  Then I read the make.bat and typed it myself:
>
> E:\>\booting\cpimage zbeos a:<enter>
>
> For my surprise the cpimage started to (?) copy the zbeos disk image to
> a
> formatted floppy in drive A:. It then wrote something like ...successful
>
> created... and quited. (heaven)
>
> Ok, now the boot floppy is created and I finnaly may evaluate the 15 min
>
> installation time for Be (as they advertise in their site).
> I shutdow the PC and rebootted with BIOS set to boot from floppy, and...
>
> the same old Win95 shows up - wonderfull I thinked.
>
> Seaching again the CD and killing the Partition Magic Setup again I
> discoverd
> a \Win95\BeOS subfolder with a readme (claiming quick&dirty) explaining
> I had to copy the BeOS folder to C: (a crap explanation about hardcoded
> scripts)
> to allow a lean boot fron Win95/DOS. Ok, I copied the sub-folder....
> Then I run the BeOS in that folder - it switched Win95 to DOS mode
> (rebooting)
> and (crying) a blue BeOS 4.5 screen showed up. The boot code started and
>
> sequentially illuminated the circulars icones of the process.
>
> And my stopwatchrunning...
>
> Suddently it stops with a white line message like script error (?).
> After a 1000s Win95 reboot and Partition Magic Setup killing, I tried to
> copy the
> whole tree \Win95\Beos to my C: drive. And here we go again.
>
> This time the Boot process continue until its end copying a lot of stuff
> from
> the CD to my second HD. Suddently a pointing hand icon shows up.
> My two buttons serial Logitech mouse was (?) not connected with
> that Icon (anyway) and it desapeared and a agreement window shows up.
> >From that moment on I tried all keyboard/mouse combinations until I
> found
> one key that allowed me to continue - the RESET key.
>
> Three hours later I got an RedHat 6.0 CD and installed it in that 500Mb
> partition in less than 15 minutes.
>
> Oh, I forgot to mention that the cpimage never worked and I run Norton
> Diskedit in DOS mode just to check the boot sector of that boot floppy
> had only zeroes...no boot sector at all.
>
> I then leeched the Be ftp site getting the 4.5.1 bootimage. There I
> discovered
> in the bootimage.readme that for DOS users the magic program to prepare
> the infamos boot floppy is named "rawrite".
> (back to Linux) With a copy of rawrite from a Linux distribuiton - no I
> didn«t
> find it at the Be site, maybe I was so tired I didn«t seached all site -
> I finnaly
> got a workable boot floppy from the zbeos file. (that one at least
> worked)
>
> Well, I give the CD back to my friend and start to learn Linux.
>
> Sorry for my english and maybe this why this attempt didn«t worked.
>
> cheers,
> J Souto
>