I also have BeOS on the 80 GB hard drive. It is R5 PE(the last one from Be, Inc.). It is on an image on my FAT32 C: partition since that is the easiest way. I don't use it much and have a floppy to boot to BeOS. This is much simplier than partitioning for it and to me makes more since for an old dead OS ;-p (Currently it is kinda dead) it is. I downloaded R5 PE a while back and decided to put it on since I had nothing to lose other than some disk space and if I needed some more disk space, I could just delete the image files.
This is my BeOS directory on /mnt/windows/c :
[esteban@stephen BeOS]$ ls -hl
total 502M
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44K Mar 27 2000 CreateBootFloppy.exe*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1.5M Jun 6 2000 Floppy.img*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 500M Jun 7 2000 image.be*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14K Jul 16 1999 Rawrite.exe*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9.7K Mar 28 2000 Readme.txt*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32K Mar 27 2000 RebootToBeOS.exe*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 81 Jan 25 2000 Register BeOS.url*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16K Feb 20 15:12 Uninst.isu*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 78K May 27 2000 Zbeos*
[esteban@stephen BeOS]$
Any questions, any comments? If you want to tell me why BeOS isn't dead (I don't think it is completely), then comment. Your cat died, comment. Your computer quit, comment. Etc, comment.;-)