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My Current Set-Up:
* DFI BloodIron Motherboard P35-T2RL
* Intel E5200 Wolfdale CPU 45nm overclocked to 3.8ghz
* Evga 8800GT
* 2 Samsung 250GB HD's, 1 Seagate 250GB....All Sata
* LG IDE DVD, and LG DVD IDE Burner
* Coax Digital Out to DAC hooked up to studio monitors, All sound works along with Mic. In.
* Dell 3007WFP-HC
This is kind of elaborate set-up and by no means you need all this, but I would suggest a 45nm CPU, Sata HD's, and LG IDE DVD drives, and a 8800GT or 8600GT
Install for anyone that wants the newest latest greatest install method: Remember I'm posting this on Nov. 12th 2008, in a couple months this might not be the "latest greatest" so be sure to check out the Leopard Installation Forum once in a while
What you need:
-Spare HD or Partition that can be temporarily used (must have HFS+ format support, Disk Utility is the best for this)
-About 3-4 hours of free time maybe less or more depending on how good you are with computers.
-Mac OS X Leopard Retail Install Disc, preferably the latest one...10.5.5 older ones will work though.
-Computer with osx86 compatible graphics card and CD/DVD drive
1st: You need to download a copy of boot132 and burn the image to a CD/DVD correctly ie. Disk Util. for mac MagicISO for windows. If you don't have a copy of Boot132 download it here: CLICK
2nd: This step has 2 choices, either you can use a Spare HD and clone your Mac OS X Retail Install Disc onto that HD making sure it's mac format OR you can pick yourself up a DVD DL and burn the Mac OS X Retail Install Disc onto that.
You might want to print the rest of these steps or write reminders down since you are about to restart your computer.
3rd: Place Boot132 Disc into CD/DVD drive and restart your computer make sure you have CD boots first set in bios. While in BIOS you want to also want to check a couple things. Make sure AHCI is enabled under HD/Disk options. Also make sure your HD that you wish to install Mac on is set to 1st priority on the HD boot options. Note this option is not the same as the option for setting your boot devices, you still want 1st boot device on CD/DVD. OK so your bios is fine and ready to go. The Boot132 disc you just burnt should take you to a black screen that says a few things then says something like Boot:_ if it doesn't boot into the CD chances are you burned it wrong.
IF YOU USED A SPARE HD USE THIS METHOD
4th: At the black screen with white lettering "boot132 screen" you want to push enter here. Next screen with ask for a number 80 and up. You'll want to do this type "80" press enter if you don't see your Mac OS X Retail Clone HD name here you'll want to push esc. and try "81" enter if it's not here keep repeating. After you get to 85 you either have a crap load of HD's and Partitions or you didn't clone your disc to HD right. OK so once you find your HD with the Install Disc on it, you want to push enter to boot into it. The familiar Apple screen should be coming up now.
IF YOU USED A DVD DL USE THIS METHOD
4th: At the first black screen with white lettering "boot132 screen" you want to take your Boot132 disc out and insert your DVD DL Mac Install Disc. Push enter and you should see the familiar install screen.
THE REST OF THE STEPS APPLY FOR BOTH DVD AND HD METHODS
5th: Once your install screen loads you want to install leopard like normal to the HD of your choice (MAKE SURE THE HD IS CLEAN AND GUID, if it's not you can select disk utility from the top menubar and prep it. Also before you finalize and install leopard to your HD you want to customize the install and uncheck X11 (glitchy with all macs.... osx86 or real) and all of the unnecessary printer drivers, I normally uncheck everything except the printer drivers I'm going to need. Install.
6th: Once it's done install your going to need to boot from the Boot132 disc to access your new leopard install. On the first Boot132 screen press enter on the second screen you should have to type "80" and press enter this should show your HD's name that has Leopard now installed on it. If it doesn't press esc. and try 81 and so on. BTW if your install isn't on "80" your going to need to go into bios and set your HD priorities right so that the next steps will work properly.
7th: OK so great your able to boot into leopard without problems. If your not able to boot into leopard at all it's most likely due to a graphic card problem and you'll have to use the simple method listed below.
8th: Install your graphics drivers with EFI Studio found at in "BloodIron Package" the bottom of the page. Note you must be logged in to download. If you don't see your graphics drivers on the EFI Studio list you'll need to use Natit or NVinject.
If you never used EFI studio it's real simple, here's a quick run down: Open EFI Studio, under Device choose "Display" then under that change "ATI Radeon HD 2400-256MB" to your current graphics card. Click "Add Device" then click "write to com.apple.Boot.plist" Thats it, real simple and great results for video cards
9th: Install your sound drivers, by using AppleHDA Patcher v1.20 (download found at bottom). And the sound card dump.
If you haven't done this before here's a quick rundown. Place the unzipped "AppleHDAPatcherv1.20" on your desktop and the unzipped "ALC_885_Codec By MikeInNS" txt file on your desktop. Simply drag the txt "ALC_885_Codec By MikeInNS" file onto your "AppleHDAPatcherv1.20" (frog guy) it will automatically open run and say you can now restart your computer.
DO NOT RESTART YOUR COMPUTER HERE YET THOUGH. If your using this install method for a different mobo you'll need a different dump .txt file that corresponds to your mobo.
10th: Install Chameleon v1.0.11 you can download it by clicking here it's the first result and you'll want to download the .zip file found on the right hand side of the page, it wouldn't let me post a direct link here and I didn't want to risk posting a hot-link to the file and getting this taken down, sorry about that. Open up Chameleon and install it.
11th: Take your Boot132 disc out and boot up Leopard. FYI it will not boot right if your Leopard install disc wasn't set to first boot priority. And you'll need to use boot132 to start up leopard to fix any issues.
12th: Congrats, hope that didn't take to long
You should be able to install leopard updates now without problem. If you have any problems your best bet is to troubleshoot in the boot132 thread found here. -----------------------------------------------
SIMPLE INSTALLATION METHOD
1st: Grab yourself a copy of iDeneb v1.3
2nd: Boot into CD
3rd: From drivers list you'll want to make sure these are what's checked the rest are up to you.
*I would suggest Vanilla kernel.
*ALC883 (not the same as ALC885 but should work if not refer to step 9 of the complex install)
*You Video Card Drivers
*You shouldn't need any chipset or network patches
*Remember less is more as far as patches go.
4th:Install and boot into leopard. This method won't be as good as the Boot132 method but will perform very well, make sure to troubleshoot in the Leopard Installation thread if you have any issues (please also check if updates mess up your install or not before installing them (you only have to check major updates which come out every couple months and most the time they're fine to install without patching first you want to be safe rather then sorry)
Hope that helps
I'm not on Insanely Mac very often anymore but feel free to trouble shoot in this thread. Good luck and enjoy Leopard! 
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