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Any alternate method to install Lion when you don't have access to a working copy of OS X ?


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Hello everyone ,

 

 

 

 

I was looking forward to install Lion on my PC with the following specs.

 

Intel C2D E7200 2.53 GHz

 

Intel DG35EC Motherboard

 

160 GB SATA HDD

 

DVD 18x IDE

 

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT

 

 

 

 

But I'm facing various issues :

 

 

 

 

To prepare the installation of Lion's setup files, I need to have access to OS X installation or use a VMware image. I do not have access to another mac or know anyone else having one.

 

As for the VMware image, I got an image of OS X 10.6.8 , but since my processor doesn't support virtualization I'm not able to run it in VMware. I ignored the (virtualization) warning in VMware (by changing OS to other) and continued to run the image but it results in the "Invalid front-side bus frequency 66000000 Hz." error. Setting various "busratio"' during boot didn't help either.

 

So is there any other means to prepare setup files / install the Lion ?

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What I did (using Windows): install PowerISO & the MacDrive trial version (good for 5 days). The Lion "Golden Master" torrents are all in the .dmg file format. But PowerISO will allow conversion to the .iso format, which can then be burned to disc in Windows.

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