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I was just about to say that installation was almost prefectly hassle-free, but then I realized it wasn't. Coming to that soon though. It started off just as it should anyway. Double-click, run standard installation program. Choose drive and install directory. Done! Pretty fast install too ... Shortcuts for starting BeOS on desktop and start menu, but created a boot disk to use just in case (that's what Kristofer failed to notice in the readmes :-), then in goes the disk and restart the machine! (And Breakbeat Era's Ultra-Obscene bursted into my headphones as well)
Booting BeOS, nice little boot screen came, then left for a nice greyscale 60 Hz 640 by 480 screen. No drivers for the graphics card found, right ... Oh, and we don't think you have enough space left for a swap file either, so we've disabled virtual memory as well. Fine, I can live with that, and I even had drivers for nVidia cards downloaded and ready to install. Fixing this should be a snap! The process turned out to last all the way through Ultra-Obscene though (got a sweet colour screen by the time the last song ended), because double click wouldn't run the install script for some reason, meaning I had to dig up and get into a terminal program to run it. That's what made me make that comment above about almost hassle free install. It wasn't difficult to me, but it wasn't something a complete beginner would have got through without help either. He/she would stare at the greyscale screen, then feel their eyes start to ache, boot back into Windows and hit uninstall. Pity really ... All I want now is a nice way to get on the internet (this computer currently connects through the network using Wingate), and perhaps know why BeOS thinks I don't have space to use for virtual memory ...
More to come here later, once I've dug in some more. Perhaps ...
