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Yeah and this explains also previous comment why it usually doesn't work in vmware or parallels

I have gotten it running in VMware just fine. Trick is to burn a physical CD, put it in the physical CD/DVD drive, and use CDROM RAW mode to access/boot to it in VMWare.

Also have to hit spacebar and choose the "failsafe" VESA graphics as VMware's video chipset is not supported and looks HORRIBLE in Zeta.

Zeta 1.21 also has a vlance driver now to support the VMWare native network chipset.

I have a .vmx file laying around somewhere that I used recently...

RE: using ISO9660 - unfortunately BeOS/Zeta/Haiku currently require BFS to boot because the attributes are required for some purposes (I don't know the details really)

Edited 2006-09-25 17:44

Very Sweet. Will download it tonight. Thank you umccullough

Very Sweet. Will download it tonight.

Ugh, now that I think of it... I've never actually tried the liveCD specifically in VMWare, only the full Zeta installation CD (which should boot the same way - right?)... I also will try it out tonight

If burning a cue file is beyond your grasp, maybe you shouldn't be trying out alternitave operating systems.

The problem is that the only program in Linux that can burn it is Nero. And how hard can it be to support booting from an iso fs if even the most basic of os's like visopsys and syllable can do it?

And how hard can it be to support booting from an iso fs if even the most basic of os's like visopsys and syllable can do it?

You answered your own question I think

"Basic" OSes can boot from "basic" filesystems. I think a better question might be: Why can't the LiveCD/Install CD be an ISO9660 with a BFS image on it which the bootloader locates and boots the kernel from?

The problem is that the only program in Linux that can burn it is Nero.

I have NOT tried this with the Zeta CD, so I could be completely off, but I've been able to burn images with a .cue file using cdrecord's "cuefile=" argument.

It worked well for burining another non-standard filesystem image I had. I don't think it supports every possible mode though.

Nero?! Perhaps try cdrdao?

The problem is that the only program in Linux that can burn it is Nero

Just thought to inform you that cdrdao and atleast Gnomebaker should burn .cue files, too. Cheers =)

Toast on the Mac complains about a lack of a bin file.

k3b... and the list goes on

k3b fails to burn Zeta Live CD. Period!
It was complaining "file does not seem to be valid cue file" or such something.
I had to fire up my NeroExpress and now I have my ZetaCD.

Yeah, K3B will burn a .cue file based CD image correctly. You just have to know how to use the program.

It would be nice if the .cue file worked with any other burner software than Nero though because not everyone has Nero (or even Windows).
If creating a .cue file that isn't broken is beyond your grasp, maybe you shouldn't sell an alternative operating system.

You can't have an ISO image of any BeOS version becuase all of the files need to be held on a BeFS partition on the CD as the installed requires the meta data the file system contains. If you put them all onto an ISO 9660 file system you loose all of the meta data etc. without which BeOS won't even boot. It is not hard to burn the floppy disk boot image and the main installer disk image under windows or Linux. You can do it with free tools, instructions available here http://www.beosmax.org/wiki/index.php/Instructions_on_burning_a_BeO...

Just use nero or nero for linux to make it easy :-)
Works like a charm on FC5.

Edited 2006-09-26 04:46

I'm downlading now just fine at 200K/s

using daemon-tools mounted cue sheet.

AH! why didn't I think of that?! - I always forget that daemon-tools (and other virtual cdrom software) usually support cue sheets

When you get lost on a raft in the middle of the ocean, you'd be glad you had downloaded the LifeCD.

Let's hear it for your German then

Blame your ISP, blame infrastructure, not their server - i'm at 80% since i made my last post about an hour ago.
[edit]ok, you didn't point any fingers, so scratch that part about their server [/edit]

Edited 2006-09-25 19:22

Same here. I abandoned the download because it's so terribly slow. And my ISP is fine thanks. I am pretty sure a torrent would download better as it always does.

I hope so, too.
But, if not, well ...
Back to the Live CD! My first impressions:
- The Video Editor does not work in any way (an absolutely horrible piece of software). According to German Forums a completely new written version is on the way, but not for Zeta 1.21.
- The BePodder Demo has expired, so it won't even start.
But the "rest" of the Live CD is very interesting (Firefox 2.0 Beta, a lot of bugfixes, a Gobe Trial version and so on). The Live CD runs very quickly and seems to be "stable". Nice work!!!

I was quite impressed as well. Very snappy. They've also included ipw2200 wireless drivers, which is kind of cool.
Too bad i couldn't use usb though. I had to rip all my usb devices out to make it boot. It froze on loading EHCI module or something like that. I tried to connect my mouse, after a clean boot, but it did freeze anyway.
But other than that, very nice
(Rember that you can bring up a boot menu, right before it loads zeta, to enable safe mode and such...)

point being there are no "bin" files. The cue sheet is correct. The programs are just expecting something different. Even editing the file extensions and cue file to match expectations doesn't work. I have to burn the zip file for now and take the thing home to burn on my beos machine.