Installer
| Deskbar: | No entry. Has to be started from /boot/system/apps/. | |
| Location: | /boot/system/apps/Installer | |
| Settings: | none |
The Installer is used to copy Haiku onto another volume.
Upon launch it displays a start window with important information. It's not a mindless EULA you're used to click away in the blink of an eye, it states:
This is alpha-quality software. Make backups or suffer the consequences!
The Installer needs a prepared partition. You may have to use a GParted LiveCD or a similar tool until Haiku's DriveSetup is mature enough to handle this task.
Haiku can be added manually to the bootmanager GRUB. In short, you have add an entry to /boot/grub/menu.lst of your Linux installation, similar to this:
# Haiku on /dev/sda7 title Haiku rootnoverify (hd0,6) chainloader +1
Once you acknowledged with , you're presented with the main window:
In the first drop-down menu you choose the source for the installation. It can be a currently installed Haiku or can come from an install CD or USB drive, etc.
The second drop-down menu specifies the target for the installation. This target partition/volume will be completely overwritten and has to be set aside beforehand by a partitioning tool like GParted.
Clicking the little expander widget will Show Optional Packages, if available, that you can choose to install in addition to the basic Haiku.
You should do a last check if you really picked the right target before starting the installation process. Click on to open DriveSetup and have a look at the naming and layout of the available volumes and partitions.
starts the installation procedure, which basically copies everything but the home/ and common/ folder onto the target volume and makes it bootable.
It can happen that some other operating system or partitioning tool (accidentally) overwrites the boot sector of your Haiku volume. The button makes it bootable again.