sSword Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Hi I am toying with the idea of putting osx on my PC i have a pro audio spec system with a few dsp cards (pulsar, tc powercore) is it worth trying to install osx ? should i take the cards out ? my pc should run osx ok ? (based on specs) Spec: PIV 3.2 SSE3 (prescott) 2048mb pc3200 ram Asus p4p800e deluxe (i865pe, ich5, realtek ac97) 2x ide and 2x sata drives ADAPTEC 2940 SCSI GeForce Ti4200 128mb ddr AGP8x EMU 1212m Audio Creamware Pulsar TC PowerCore PCI (MKI) if osx is installed on a dedicated drive (i got an 8gb ide kickin around) can i just select to boot it from the bios when ever i want without effecting my windows stuff? is linux / coding knowledge required, cos i know nuffin about it? have i asked to many questions ? thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1008-quiz/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinx Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 is it worth trying to install osx ? Is it worth it? Maybe... A better questions is: can you do much (in terms of sound production) in OSX currently? No. There are no drivers for your cards most likely... (but theres only one way to find out) should i take the cards out ? It is not required to physically remove them, they will simply not be available. my pc should run osx ok ? (based on specs) Yes, but you will have to use the CoreGraphics patch for SSE3 and AC97 for audio. if osx is installed on a dedicated drive (i got an 8gb ide kickin around) can i just select to boot it from the bios when ever i want without effecting my windows stuff? Yes. If you follow the guides lying around like http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...le_And_Accurate - or - http://www.tech-recipes.com/apple_mac_tips964.html I had more success with the second one, but: change the command> dd if=c:\tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\PhysicalDriveSomething to: dd if=c:\tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\PhysicalDriveSomething\PartitionSOMETHING [ i havent tried doing this, but its a combination of the first and second guides ] and make the partition before hand (doesnt matter what type) If you dont change that command you will probably end up corrupting the partition table on the drive and windows/partition magic/whatever partition program wont be able to understand what's on it. Also make sure its a completely empty drive or you backed up all of your data, dd under windows has given me problems. is linux / coding knowledge required, cos i know nuffin about it? No coding is required. Some linux-like commands are required (like dd) but they're usually well explained like in the guides above. dd should be the most complex program you need to run. have i asked to many questions ? Nope Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1008-quiz/#findComment-6136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohde Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Yes you can relatively easy install OS X on your system. I think the easiest way is using Nolan's newest guide over at 360Hacker.net (Nolan's guide). In that setup you install OS X on a separate partition on you harddrive. But there sure are problems as this is an unsupported development version targetted at a narrow range of hardware: In OS X You will only have a harddrive with the size of approx. 6 GBytes no matter what size partition you use. I haven't yet found a sure and proved way of improving that. This is a big hindrance of doing anything serious in the long term. You sound card probably won't work. I've only got sound in the left channe and some hasn't any at all. You can only use VESA driver for you graphics card; this means that you won't have any 3D graphics acceleration. And also some can't even get it to boot properly so there's also the chance that you might not even get it to work. All is possible in this unchartered territory. You don't need any knowledge of linux for installing it in the sense that you can just mimic the guides without actually knowing what it does. Further you don't need any linux knowledge whatsoever using OS X, although there's a terminal and all so you can get you feet wet if you want to. On the speed isue it will (if you get it to work) probably run fast as hell. I have a P4 Northwood and only 512 MBytes of RMA and it's blazingly fast on my machine so I imagine it'll be like a formula one racer on yours. So is it worth it? Depends on your outlook I'd imagine. You shouldn't expect to be able to use it as a serious production machine no matter what you "produce". But it's fun as hell test driving this operating system. And in my oppinion it's lean, mean, fast, beatiful, easy to use and yet with the flexibility and tools wanted by the power user (because of it's BSD/Unix roots). It has some great features like Spotlight and the Dashboard. So I'll say, again in my oppinion only, that it's vastly superior to Windows XP. I'd buy it for sure when it's released. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1008-quiz/#findComment-6149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sSword Posted August 23, 2005 Author Share Posted August 23, 2005 Coolness, im gonna have a go at it sometime this week, my overall aim is to be able to run logic, cant wait for the x86 version to be re-made thanks for your help chaps Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1008-quiz/#findComment-6182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanity Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 I think it would be good to try, if only so you can add your hardware to the compatibility list. You have some esoteric hardware there, and it would be nice just to add to the list whether working or not. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1008-quiz/#findComment-6187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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