BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition Install

How to Install BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition ?

• From Windows, double-click on the BeOS5-PersonalEdition.exe icon to install it
• Follow the text on the screen
• Once installed, register on the Be web site

How to start BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition ?

• Double-click on the "Start BeOS 5.0" icon (in the BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition folder, or on the Desktop)
• If you don't want to use Windows to start BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition, you can start it at startup by doing a boot floppy. To do so, use the Make Boot Floppy icon in the BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition folder and insert a blank floppy in the floppy drive.
• Once you have created the boot floppy, reboot the computer with the floppy inside.

Where to get support ?

Be is not offerering phone or email support for BeOS 5.0 Personal Edition. but though a large number of web resources :

• Read the FAQ : http://www.be.com/support/faqs/
• Compatibility : http://www.be.com/compatible/
• Installation : http://www.benews.com
• Drivers :
  • http://www.bebits.com
  • http://www.boostsignal.com
• Applications :
• http://www.bebits.com
• http://www.boostsignal.com
• Tips : http:///www.betips.net
• News :
  • http://www.benews.com
  • http://www.beoscentral.com
• Newsgroups :
  • news://comp.sys.be
  • news://fr.comp.sys.be
  • news://de.comp.os.be
• Local User Groups : http://www.beeurope.com/world/usergroups.html

Where to get BeOS 5.0 Professional Edition ?

• Where to buy BeOS 5.0 Professinal Edition : Apacabar (France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Italy, Spain, Portugal), contact email : smonneret@apacabar.fr
• Koch Media (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, United Kingdom, Poland, Hungary, Albania, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Romania, Slovak Republic, Ukraine, The Former Yugoslavia), contact email : c.moriz@kochmedia.com

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