BEOS Release 3 ISO Disk Image

Hey guys. i've been mostly inactive, but i have been in the background collecting roms and OS images. This was something i discovered in my dads basement, along with some other goodies like Netware, 1995 Linux Boot disks and Several Windows OEM disks (won't upload the windows disks). I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and upload this here, and see what happens.

First of many things i will upload when i get the time. Here we have BEOS Release 3. the Disk is Actually the 3.1 Disk image. the Package came with 3 Disks: a WIndows-NT/DOS Intel disk, a MACOS7? HFS Disk and a MSDOS BEOS Release 3 Floppy (not Pictured). The MACOS disk would not read in several HFS readers, so it's presumed dead for the time being. my guess is that the MSDOS disk was a kickstart. i don't have a floppy reader so i can't check right now.

This shows the two CD's packaged with it. the Floppy disk is behind the Installation manual, in a pouch. for some reason, i cannot get images to work so here's a link to imgur.

http://imgur.com/a/cbs1I

The contents were extremely small for a CD based Image. only 5MB of total data. Major portions of the OS, including applications are in a compressed Z file, which would be expanded upon installation.

File: BEOS3.1.0-WINNT_Intel_Pentium.iso
Size: 3.01MB (Uncompressed 5.00MMB contents)
Download here: http://www.filedropper.com/beos310-winntintelpentium

next i'll dump the Netware disk (it has the licence floppy that'll need to be dumped for it to work, but at least you can have the image).

 

Now this looks interesting, thanks! 5MB seems suspiciously small though, I remember having a live demo disc of some version of BeOS that was around 230MB I believe. Then again there was lots of multimedia filler on there so they could show off their rotating cubes with different videos on each side...

Upon further inspection, what you seem to have done is copy the bootloader/installer files off the disc, rar them up and rename that to iso, is that right? That gives us the contents of the DOS/Windows readable partition (or track, whatever the hell you wanna call those on CDs), but it's not in a bootable format (if it even was before, dunno), and you completely missed any other partition(s) that aren't recognized by your OS - those that contain the bulk of the BeOS files. To make a proper image of this disc I recommend something like ImgBurn. That should also work with the PPC disc, without even needing a Mac.

 

From a reddit quote, could be the 5MB is just the floppy 'boot" image of the CD.
Do not make an iso, ISO's will not be bootable since BFS is not joliet compatible in multitrack (it needs to be multitrack as the initial boot sector image is a separate track of a floppy, old school style) You need to make a raw image or a .img file to be able to boot the disk.

 

surely a BIN/CUE dumped in "raw" mode (2352 bytes/sector) would work as well?

 

That qualifies as a raw image, so yes.

 

hey guys.

thanks for the replies. i was at work. i figured i had not dumpoed the disk properly. i'm going to setup a linux partition o my laptop to dump the disks properly. i'll re-upload when that happens

just a list of other things that i have:

Windows 95 OEM w/ USB Support (it says on the disk "With USB Support")
WIndows 98 OEM
WIndows XP Corporate
WIndows XP SP1 HP OEM disks
WIndows 2000 (as if anyone would want that)
LInux Mandrake 7 Floppy disk
Redhat Kickstart and OS FLoppy Disks
Netware 4 CD with Licence FLoppy
And of course the BEOS 3.1 disks.

all the windows disks have product keys. i'm not sure on the legality of dumping the windows disks (i'm sure upto 2000 would be ok, but i don't think the XP disks can be dumped yet).

 

I hope the dump attempt goes well the next time.
Ah, that should be Win95b. I have a few discs of it from my older desktops. It should also have support for FAT32.

 

That only contains the Partition Magic edition bundled with BeOS and some utilities to make a bootdisk, not the whole thing as said by rso.
The BeOS 3.0 and 3.1 disc images are already available online, elsewhere...

 

All that stuff is already dumped and available at https://winworldpc.com/

 

I remember watching euronews back in the day and they featured beos once. It was described as some kind of OS of the future with incredible miltitasking and multimedia featurea. It was supposed to make radically better use of hardware when compared to other contemporary os. Too bad it died.

Edit: it was actually reincarnated in 2001 as Haiku OS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system)

 

I believe Palm OS bought BeOS and then killed it off.