Questions tagged [haiku]
Haiku is a new open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.
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Haiku panics at boot "vm_page_fault: unhandled page fault in kernel space"
This is my first time installing an operating system other than Windows, so I'll try to put in extra detail in case I made a stupid mistake somewhere during the process.
I downloaded Haiku from the ...
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Why won't WebPositive open again after I close it, and how do I fix it?
I'm running Haiku from a USB stick. I opened up the web browser, WebPositive, and tested to see if I could load anything. It didn't, so I closed it. Then I realized - duh, I wasn't connected to the ...
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Creating a bootable Linux USB key from Haiku
Note: Usually a question about Haiku would be the opposite--creating a bootable Haiku USB key from Linux or perhaps Windows--but since I have Haiku running and not Linux, I do actually mean what is in ...
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Compiling dictconv on Haiku
I'm having trouble compiling dictconv on Haiku nightly hrev46922. I've never tried before.
First it complained about not knowing which OS it was. So I followed the directions and replaced config....
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Scheduled tasks / cron on Haiku?
It doesn't seem to be called cron on Haiku and I don't see anything in Preferences or Applications as of the latest nightly. (Where) is this functionality in Haiku / what is it called? (I also ...
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"muxserver_listen bind(): No such file or directory" using todo.txt over ssh on Haiku OS
I'm getting this error after entering a password when connecting via ssh from a Terminal window, ever since I followed these directions to reuse ssh connections:
"...consider appending the following ...
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"Not a bootable partition" from Haiku's boot manager for new Linux partitions
I just did this:
made an Intel Extended partition covering the whole HD using Haiku Alpha 4.1's DriveSetup
made several BeOS partitions
deleted the first one
installed Haiku onto one of the other ...
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Opening a Terminal for the current bash script, if it wasn't started in one
How can I get a script to re-launch itself in a Terminal window if it wasn't started in one?
Based on this question, I've tried, in a file called testterm marked executable:
#! /bin/sh
if [ -t 0 ]; ...
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Opening a Terminal window with the current directory set to a specific directory
I want to set up a keyboard shortcut in Shortcuts that opens a Terminal window already cd'd to the desktop. I've tried
Terminal ~/Desktop
Terminal cd ~/Desktop
But these don't work. Terminal --...
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Can't seem to connect to Win 7 share with smbclient 3.5.5 on Haiku
I did the registry mods mentioned here but cannot seem to connect. I say seem to, because there's no error message.
smbclient \\\\WIN7MACHINE\\ -U myusername
smbclient \\\\WIN7MACHINE\\ -U%
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How to get something to start on next startup only one time in Haiku
I want to make something start up after the next reboot, but only once, and not after any other reboot. Just like your first boot of a Haiku image off a USB stick runs the Installer, and whether you ...
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Unattended installation of a .pkg file in Haiku
Is there a way to do this from the command-line, additionally being able to specify the destination partition?
I tried to create an empty partition, and install the package onto that, so I could just ...
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Formatting or initializing a partition from the command-line in Haiku
I'm making a script and I want to take an existing partition and clear it quickly. Rather than using rm I thought there might be a command-line way of formatting or initializing a partition, but I ...
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What's the syntax to open a Tracker window from the command line in Haiku?
I've tried these:
Tracker /path
Tracker /path/
/path
/path/
...but no dice (the former two open Tracker's preferences window and the latter complain that /path is a directory.) What should I do? ...
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CD- and USB-less install of Linux Mint 14...from Haiku and/or BeOS
I have a system that boots BeOS and Haiku nightly, and has a spare partition which I used to have PC-BSD booting on. (I use Haiku's BootManager on .../master/raw.) I want to try Linux Mint 14, but I ...
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