Haiku booting from it's own partition into a GUI
I copied the haiku.image file from one of the linked files under the responses to today's OSNEWS story today and mounted it in BeOS. I then made an empty BFS partition and copied all of the files from the mounted Haiku image into the BFS partition and then ran BOOTMAN. In bootman I added the new Haiku partition to my boot menu and rebooted. And there it was Haiku booting up as fast as BeOS ever did and opened up into the MiniTerminal. I haven't played around with it too much as it crashes easily (what do you expect pre-alpha?). You can run Tracker and then right click on the screen and create a new folder, at that point it locked up for me. Others have gotten it to do more. I tried to do the old PrintScreen to dump a screenshot file into my home folder but that caused it to lock up also. Clock program works as do a few other apps such as People. Still nice to see it booting up and running the familiar GUI. Shouldn't be too long before an alpha I'd think. The above screen capture was one that I found in the comments section as I wasn't able to get any myself. It's showing almost the same thing I was seeing in my limited testing. Nice work by the Haiku team so far. Keep up the great work guys. Also thanks to Philipp Schmid for posting the Haiku disk images, too bad all the news took down his blog, hopefully it comes back up.
