~pcwiz Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 Don't buy a SATA HD if you have an nForce chipset because they don't work with SATA in OS X but if you don't have the nForce chipset, go ahead and buy the HD and install onto that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 how do i check if i have the nforce chipset? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 I'll check it for you. Whats your motherboard model? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 i checked with everest the chipset is intel and my video card is a msi pcx5300 pci express my mobo is a msi-7046 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 If its an Intel chipset you should be OK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 its the i915 now i have to persuade my dad into letting me do this on the computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted November 9, 2007 Author Share Posted November 9, 2007 i'm now working on 2 computers mine and my friend's. his computer deems almost perfect for osx86 (like mine) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 i'll be installing osx86 onto a friends machine soon enough he bought an internal sata hd that i will install for them and install osx for now, i will use the chain0 method Is there some sort of graphical bootloader for windows? PS- I wish i could done for ur new hackint0sh (i really don't have any money) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 There is a graphical boot loader, "Acronis OS Selector" but its a hassle to use it with OS X. chain0 is the best method for XP. pcwiz P.S. Nice to see you again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 wow, i haven't posted here in a while. my friend has osx86 installed and working fully (except his stupid dial-up, AOL Connect?), but he installed it on a separate hard drive. plus he needs a graphical bootloader because his dad doesn't like any other way. chain0 didn't seem to work. Doesn't Acronis support multiple hard drives? I read it on there site. PS Is the picture of the case under your name your new hackintosh? PPS I'm making an OSX86 live cd But my computer frose while i was installing stuff in vmware Will Garageband and iMovie fit on an osx86 live cd? I own iLife '06 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 chain0 should work but there may be some complications. What do you exactly mean by "chain0 doesn't work"? And it only works on XP, doesn't work on Vista And like I said, there is a way to use Acronis but its a real hassle. The case under my name is not the case for my hackint0sh I'm sad to say My case is an Antec Sonata III. Making a live CD is hard work, how are you going to do it? Meanwhile people at the OSx86 LiveCD project are starting a new projectcalled the InsanelyLive project that attempts to run a Leopard Live DVD and is for the most part successful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted January 8, 2008 Author Share Posted January 8, 2008 the live cd (DVD) is done! but now i need to get the image out of vmware i have macdrive (if that helps) or can i just burn the image through vmware PS There is a program posted by rammjet here PPS How do you use acronis with osx86? What about chain0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Use Rammjet's guide, but the problem is to get it out of VMware. I'm sorry to say though that the only way you're going to get it out of VMware is to do it all over again. But this time, instead of using a VMware virtual disk image file for the hard drive, you have to give VMware special access to an empty partition. After you have everything set up the way you want it, use Rammjet's guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted January 11, 2008 Author Share Posted January 11, 2008 couldn't i add my external (NTFS) hard drive to VMWare and copy the image there, after installing ntfs drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 VMware sometimes has problems with external drives. Try and see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehsusenoh Posted January 13, 2008 Author Share Posted January 13, 2008 nope it mounts it as scsi not ide working on another way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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