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Here is an (almost) complete install sequence for BeOS PE Max v4b1 in picture form:

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So, as promised earlier I said I’d post the chronicling of my second attempt to run BeOS on my laptop.

First up was to locate both BeOS PE Max and some installation documentation. As I write this the BeOS Max website is actually down so it was off to archive.org to go and find a cached copy. Here is a link to the latest copy available of the wiki pages.

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So, with all the recent hype about the alpha release of Haiku, the open source BeOS clone. I thought it would be a good idea to test it out. I had heard of BeOS/Haiku before and how good it was and thought it would be the perfect candidate to run on an old laptop we have in the house which doesn’t run Linux at all well.

So  I downloaded the Haiku alpha .image and converted it to a .vdi for use in Virtualbox, got networking set up correctly and gave it a go! I was so impressed with it that I decided I would go ahead and install it on this old laptop.

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