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kyndder

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Quad-Boot... Working... But...
« on: January 15, 2011, 07:07:59 PM »
Hello Friends...

I have four OS's in my machine and everything is working fine, however, i would like to make more "beauty" the system selector screen of chameleon.
Chameleon recognizes my Haiku partition as NTFS partition, its icon appears as such.
I would like to know if have some way to modify the icon of this "wrong" partition keeping the others with its respective icons?

Thanks.
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Zane

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Re: Quad-Boot... Working... But...
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2011, 03:34:00 PM »
I was reading the forums around and there was a thread to distinguish between the distributions of Linux but i'm not sure if it will work in your case. (Not sure what your Haiku OS is)
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Blackosx

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Re: Quad-Boot... Working... But...
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2011, 05:43:43 PM »
From reading kyndder's signature I understand Haiku as being BeOS based. As for whether or not that OS has a magic number for detection by the booter is a different matter.

The topic Zane was referring to was this one:
http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,984.0.html
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valv

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Re: Quad-Boot... Working... But...
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2011, 07:00:34 PM »
depends which partition's type to be used (ext2/3 or bfs..); but yes doable! a bit complicated with bfs though (3 magic numbers or so).

r007

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Re: Quad-Boot... Working... But...
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2011, 07:57:06 PM »
As cool as it would be to have chameleon autodetect EVERY OS IN THE WORLD!!!!1!!!eleven!...  :o

*ahemm* sorry, don't know what has gotten into me... :-\

Since this is coming up very frequently (at least it seems like that to me) maybe the following might be sensible:
  • have a configuration option which can map partitions "(hdX,Y)" to icon filenames
  • try to read a file "(hdX,Y).png" from the theme directory.
Not as elegant, I admit, but also much less hassle to keep in sync with all the OSes out there, and much less time consuming in the long run (after all, developer time is a scarce resource).  ;)

kyndder

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Re: Quad-Boot... Working... But...
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2011, 12:56:35 AM »
Thanks Blackosx...

I think that`s what i`m looking for...

I`ll try and any progress will be sent in that post.


Bye.

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