Berserk87 Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 well... im thinking i wanna do a dual boot of winxp and osx on my pc, since i just grabed a new 320gb hard drive and kinda going, "hey, while im playing with partitions on an empty hard drive i might as well trying puttin osx on it, before its filled with my vital documents so i had some questions. how can i check if my pc hardware can run osx? i have an amd 3500+ what i want to do is the ez'est less confusing way, of setting it up. i wanted to leave 40 gigs free for windows xp boot, i guess 40 for mac osx? and then the rest for programs/games... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berserk87 Posted March 15, 2007 Author Share Posted March 15, 2007 not one reply? i gotta boot disk here, and windows xp, and a clean hard drive.... im gonna trying doin this tomorrow, first installing windows on a 40gb partition, then install mac osx on a 40, then the rest will be partition'd into another drive. do i have to make like a 40gb fat32 partition after installing windows for mac to install too? or if i leave it just blank will mac partition it fine by itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anantha11 Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 I have a 3500+ and its a-ok for me. Make sure your disk isnt a SATA since you cant install osx on it, although you can install a patch wherein you can read the disc in the full os mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berserk87 Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 (edited) ok, im gonna need more help my drive is Sata =\ i download jas's patch cd with amd and all that. ran the install, all the install went fine....untill i rebooted, then when it starts then it gives me some "error something something cpu something......." shows like 5 lines of {censored} i dont understand, then a message pops up saying "you need to restart your computer" in 5 different languages. is that becuase the drive is sata? or cause the cpu patch didnt work? or what? i followed the wiki-tut on duel booting with xp, but i had to format the drive and install macosx first, havnt installed xp after. EDIT : oh ya. i couldnt find a list showing what i need to make sure my pc can run osx, the only one i knew was the cpu has to have SSE2 or SSE3, which i have. EDIT2 : and i also didnt understand the terminal/fdisk part i understood what to do, but it wasnt working, wiki said type -e/dev/disk# and all that and i just kept getting illegal command message or w/e it is. then i tried things like fdisk -f/dev/disk0s1 (my boot partition) Edited March 18, 2007 by Berserk87 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berserk87 Posted March 19, 2007 Author Share Posted March 19, 2007 im thinking of not bothering with this........... =\ ive never really used macosx for more then 5 minutes, i just want to test it out, but seems like kinda a waste of time, since its pretty much just for laughs... if there is a quick ez way of getting this working, please tell me soon, or mabye give me some points that mac osx offers that might get me interested? like a tool it has that microsoft dosnt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berserk87 Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 got it working. i now officially have a hackintosh the first problem is that it wont detect my internet connection :S integrated network card : Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller , i just copy pasted the whole thing from my network connections also, im trying to set it up show a list on boot up of win or mac, and be win by default (after 5 second countdown or w/e) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berserk87 Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 woot. figured out how to install the drivers im posting this using macosx right now the whole using the terminal thing just confused me, i just went through the hard drive and drag and droped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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