My suggestion: most of you (like me) will already have a windows installed and you will want to keep it (at least for a while until you will be sure it is a move you want to make), also mac has an obvious downside (games) if you settle for simple arcade games or 4-10 games of a greater scale then you are set, but if you are a serious gamer then mac cant handle your needs (yet), so keep your windows partition and enjoy both worlds. That said please note that i couldn't wait for the moment my hackintosh to be complete (almost) so i can kick my windows partition goodbye, when that day came i gladly formated it and shared the space with my hackintosh system. My suggestion: i used a secondary partition that i didn't have, i used a defrag and partition shrink on a vista disk to make room for the new bright shinny mac. If you have a disk to spare use it, its a better solution, you can format it detach it, identify it better at every stage, you can disconnect the other disk for the install process so you wouldn't make any mistake and if you have a bios that supports boot select then you don't need to be bothered with multi boot issues (if you choose seperated disk and multi boot from bios). My suggestion: personally i use iAktos since it is significantly smaller to download and still includes 99% of the original 6.5G installation (that requires dual layer and makes things complicated), also iAktos have a tiger and a leopard version so they match each other without compatibility issues when upgrading from tiger to leopard. Also these guys release fast, for instance they were the first to come out with 10.5.2 ppf patch to upgrade their ISO from 10.5.1, that said i read allot on this issue and i found people loving Kalyway. So if i didn't had the iAtkos option, i would use kalyway, that would be my second choice.
Hi, i am so sorry for not investing in this post, i know that this is the most important part of my blog, i wasnt sure that any one uses my suggestions so i kept delaying the completion, also i was supposed to install my friends a hackintosh and i thought it would be a great opportunity to log my actions for the next posts, but for other reasons it got delayed too, now that i know there is at least one person that needs the rest, i promise to complete it by the end of the week. Sorry again and thanks for the reply. Hi, i am preaty sure that if you can get your bios to recognize your external card/usb/drive at install time then there is no reason that you cant install on it and boot from it (but making it portable for a different set of hardware thats another story, most hardware will be compatible but you will see some problems in several computers), regarding your second problem (MBR Error) i think it means that the MBR (Master Boot Record) cant find anything to boot from. Did you have any previouse OS on the computer? Did you install any bootloader?
I have compiled this list to help you not download 'the wrong version' so i hope this 'map' can guide you to a better release and build. Osx86 releases available: iATKOS_v1.0i.iso (10.5.1) iATKOS_v1.0iR2.zip (PPF (patch) so the 10.5.1 ISO will convert to 10.5.2) iATKOS_v2.0i this is an 10.5.2 release Leo4allv3final. Want to install Mac OS X 'Leopard' the successor of Mac OS Tiger on your PC, but don't want to go through all the high skilled patching and EFI emulation to get it working on PC, Here's a solution How To Install Apple Mac OS X Leopard On PC| Megaleecher.Net.
(Grub, Lilo.) did you install darwin on the external drive? And did you installed EFI? Sounds to me like most of these answers should be no, or what is darwin.
If it so, then i will release my post tomorrow and you can see the screen shots, until then (use the install menu-tools-darwin and follow the instructions) tell me how it goes. B.t.w although i can see people traveling through the blog i get no comments so i guessed no one is using the info. Hi, did you by any chance named your partition 1?
Instead of Mac, Apple, or any other name? If so then it means that you have the system installed but as soon as it tries to load it crash and restart. So acruallt the page is not 'refreshed' you should see a full reboot occure, if that is the case then the reason is the CPU, mac is written to a specific set of CPU instructions and not all supported, that is why some times dual code or core2Duo are not fully supported, in order to launch the system anyways you should try entering your BIOS and find an option to disable 2 CPUs and instead use just one core, (post regarding BIOS setup is being prepared as we speak) alternative is to use the cpu=1 option in the darwin boot prompt please refer the post for further explanation. Also there is another option in the BIOS that needs to be enabled it is called the Execute Option ROM or something with XD in the name or the help of the BIOS, try it and tell me what next. You will also have to enable CPUID limit in the bios). Anonymous said.
Hey there, Thanks for the reply and the encouraging spirit. I got good news!
I managed to load Leopard!!! What I did (following a post in insanelyMac Forum) was re-install, not checking the vga drivers. This did the trick, and mac is now running on my pc!!! And now.new problems.: 1 - No internet, although it seems like the card is recognized, because i am getting an ip address. 2 - No sound 3 - No driver for video card (this is a problem when i try to load up photobooth for example) Is there a driver site for osx86?
Thanks so much man It's [email protected] 4:45 AM.Gotta get some sleep. Good Morning! The thing with apple is that it sells their software bundled on a predefined hardware, you cannot buy a PC and the leopard/tiger/panther separately and install it on your PC, since this is the case then apple know that it doesn't have to create drivers for hardware that they don't sell, therefor only hardware they use can be activated, and all the kext available from apple is already copied into your kext folder found at: /System/Library/Extensions so how can you operate your computer anyway? Regarding your question about how to upgrade to 10.5.2, i would wait with it a couple of weeks, until you are familiarize with leopard, its not that hard for some one that has basic knowledge in leopard, mac and Unix, more then that 10.5.2 doesn't have a lot to offer to a new comer to leopard, but if you still want, there is a post covering all the steps needed, the most important thing is DO NOT USE SOFTWARE UPDATE for 10.5.2 upgrade please first read everything then try it, make sure you understand all the steps or you will turn your OS to brick. Tell me how it goes.
Hi, are you saying that after upgrade to 10.5.2 you cant re-install the leopard (at the same steps you did), i guess you forget some step, check that you did all the bios options i wrote in my post. Also please note that at this point all the required posts for 'how to install Leopard' are available on the blog, please use the last one and take it step by step it is very elaborated, it has images for every step and it should be very straight forward. The reboot problem occurres mostly because of Dual core CPU and you need to disable one of them or the other is th NX/XD BIOS option find it in. Hi, ok i think i got your problem, your bios is set in the complete opposite way of what i advised, you need to change the option: Limit CPUID MaxVal to disabled Execute Disable Bit to Enabled do this changes and continue with the installation, if all goes well, after your done follow step by step with the 10.5.2 upgrade and describe what went wrong (write every thing you do so you can recreate the situation). Also if this is successful then you can install leopard whenever you want because you have the procedure written and the BIOS setup. Tell me how it goes.
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