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oRigens
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Hi guys, tanks for your helpfull tutorial :D

 

But i still have a problem.. :(

 

My spec:

AMD Opteron 175

DFI LanPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert

2xHitachi 80gb SataII

And a Nec burner..

 

Mys problem is: I have made a raid od my 2 80Gb HDD into a 160Gb and instaled xp there, i've created a partition for backup and labled it with Backup disc (h:) and a partition FAT32 Primary to instal MacOx there and labled it with Mac. I've burned the isso into a DVD and rebooted my pc, i've enter the instalation and selected lenguage etc.. and now i have a problem with Disck Utility, It doest "read" my raid sistem, he reads my 2 HDD separated, and i dont want to erase one of them, coz i probably will lost my XP and backup...

 

Can some one help me? i realy wish to instal MacOs, but i cant erase my other OS

jchaike
jchaike
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omg this worked great. I have a problem with the ethernet but im working on how to fix that. I fixed my problem by plugging in a USB mouse and keyboard.

 

Mac OSX 10.4.6 JaS iso

AMD Athlon 64 chip

E-machine T2596 (was originally a Celeron chip, but the mobo died so i replaced it with a AMD mobo)

Everything except the internet works

I have tried using the built in Ethernet, but that failed, and now I found an old ethernet device so i am trying that now. It is a NC100 Linksys. I found the tulip driver on Wikipedia (horray wiki!!) and now i am attempting to learn how to use this tulip driver.

miguerunner4
miguerunner4
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ok guys so i got to almost the last step...(black screen with a bunch of text)then it freezes and stops loading harddrive. Am i stuck , do i have to install different versions, did i miss something? My laptop is a HP DV8035nr if you guys want specs. Its a similar configuration as the new macs. HELP ME PLEASE I REALLY WANT THIS TO WORK

jchaike
jchaike
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ok guys so i got to almost the last step...(black screen with a bunch of text)then it freezes and stops loading harddrive. Am i stuck , do i have to install different versions, did i miss something? My laptop is a HP DV8035nr if you guys want specs. Its a similar configuration as the new macs. HELP ME PLEASE I REALLY WANT THIS TO WORK

 

Hey, did u chose to customize your install? For example if you are using an AMD chip, you need to install the AMD patch, or any.

miguerunner4
miguerunner4
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Hey, did u chose to customize your install? For example if you are using an AMD chip, you need to install the AMD patch, or any.

 

 

No its this version of DVD ...I have a core 2 duo

DVD- Mac-OS-X-10.4.7-AMD.Intel-(JaS)-ISO-Repack

I thought everything was ok i installed the X11 package and all the others except printer drivers and language translations. Acronis is working fine and so is darwin..no error messages it just fails top show mac GUI after black screen with font. please guys i need help.

Rammjet
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In Customize, you must click the little arrow beside the patches category and choose packages for your computer. Choose Intel or AMD, not both. Choose SSE2 or SSE3, not both, depending upon the capability of your processor. Choose the Combo update to end up with 10.4.7. Choose other packages only if you are sure your computer can use them.

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...ost&id=4499

miguerunner4
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In Customize, you must click the little arrow beside the patches category and choose packages for your computer. Choose Intel or AMD, not both. Choose SSE2 or SSE3, not both, depending upon the capability of your processor. Choose the Combo update to end up with 10.4.7. Choose other packages only if you are sure your computer can use them.

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...ost&id=4499

 

you the man! thanks for the fast reply im working right now (geeksquad) but as soon as i get home ill reinstall ..again...and pray it works. I cant believe i didnt notice the little arrow! so stupid of me. thanks everyone so far the guide is a success you can add me to that counter!

cmdshft
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Ok, I've tried this a third time on a third version (DVD- Mac-OS-X-10.4.7-AMD.Intel-(JaS)-ISO-Repack) and I am still having problems installing. When I am 3/4 done, it tells me that there was a problem with the installation and that I should restart and retry.

 

I've done this 3 times, and still can't even get done with the installation. And I've burned the ISO at the lowest speeds, on DVD-R media, and installed by using the DVD-ROM and HDD on the same IDE cable. I guess I should note that they are both set to slaves on that cable, and I do not let the system detect my master HDD and master DVD-ROM. Maybe I should switch the jumpers?

 

Also, how can I use VMware to install to my second HDD (the slave) and then ghost it to be native?

oRigens
oRigens
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Hi guys, tanks for your helpfull tutorial :hysterical:

 

But i still have a problem.. :thumbsup_anim:

 

My spec:

AMD Opteron 175

DFI LanPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert

2xHitachi 80gb SataII

And a Nec burner..

 

Mys problem is: I have made a raid od my 2 80Gb HDD into a 160Gb and instaled xp there, i've created a partition for backup and labled it with Backup disc (h:) and a partition FAT32 Primary to instal MacOx there and labled it with Mac. I've burned the isso into a DVD and rebooted my pc, i've enter the instalation and selected lenguage etc.. and now i have a problem with Disck Utility, It doest "read" my raid sistem, he reads my 2 HDD separated, and i dont want to erase one of them, coz i probably will lost my XP and backup...

 

Can some one help me? i realy wish to instal MacOs, but i cant erase my other OS

 

 

PLZ :D

cmdshft
cmdshft
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Ok, I set the hardrive to master, and the DVD-ROm to slave, disabled a few extra's from installing, and it installed, then restarted after doing the optimization.

 

After reboot, it could not load the operating system.

 

I tried seeing if Acronis could find it, but it cant see it either.

 

I also tried adding "C:\chain0="Mac OS X86" to my boot.ini file, which doesn't seem to work.

 

I also tried booting directly to the drive with my BIOS's boot selecter, and all I get is a blinking underscore (_). (after booting into Terminal off of the installation DVD)

 

How can I fix this?

 

EDIT:>> I figured it out through the VMware method, and it works great.

Edited by Hara Taiki
Sniperwares
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Hi,

 

I am another fan of MAC, but unfortunatly I have a real bad luck. I have tried to install Mac using the manual. It gave me error when I was trying to formate using Mac Dsik Manager. I reboted and I tried again, but by mistke I have formated my Backup disk and I have lost all of My 5 Years data....

 

I wanted to cry but it was useless. I have lost all of my assignment and my engineering projects. My personal stuff and bla bla bla.......

 

Any how I formated the empty partition the one I made for mac and I installed Mac successfuly. After I made Mac partition active and disabled Boot Secetor. When I reboted now my Pc have only mac. I cant run my Windows.

 

I wanted to try to recover my data from my backup disk but I dont have windows to install any disk recovery software.

 

Guys If any one of you can help me then please send me ur advices.... I am in very big trouble. I am Final year Engineering student and I have lost every thing....

 

Thanks.

Rammjet
Rammjet
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To boot to Windows, you need to open up the OSX/Darwin bootloader by setting the Timeout parameter. After doing that, whenever you boot, just press any key when it asks and you will see a bootloader. Select Windows in the bootloader and press Enter.

 

To set the Timeout parameter: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=243116

My Babe Abe
My Babe Abe
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When I try and Erase the partition I created I get the "Could not read partition map" error. I've been looking to see what could be causing it and the only thing I can find that would cause it is if the partition is on a logical or extended partition or behind one. But I set mine up as Fat32 Primary behind my Windows and before my backup like the guide says.

I formatted it using partitionmagic initailly to get the partitions in the correct order, but after it didn't work I thought I should go back and format the partition using Acronis. That didn't work either. So now I'm trying to figure out where to go next.

Sniperwares
Sniperwares
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To boot to Windows, you need to open up the OSX/Darwin bootloader by setting the Timeout parameter. After doing that, whenever you boot, just press any key when it asks and you will see a bootloader. Select Windows in the bootloader and press Enter.

 

To set the Timeout parameter: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=243116

 

My boot loader is disabled completly... I dont get any option. It just boots to Mac OSX without any warning or option.

Pug306Break
Pug306Break
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Hi, please help me quick...

 

during the step 5, when u have to select my fat32 partition in disk utility, it shows only the DVD-RW that has the DVD to install...

 

:D why this {censored} doesn´t show my HD and its partitions ???

 

thx in advance.

longlife
longlife
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hi everyone

 

im having some really big problems with os selector.

i installed acronis then rebooted then installed os selector and during reboot it started os selector but then its taking soooo long. i have the "processing please wait" message for a good 20 min before it says "error" "failed to read from the sector 63 of the hard disk 1" and i have a choice between "retry" "ignore" " ignore all" and "cancel". i tried cancel and it keeps giving me the same error message but with other sectors or the same one with write instead of read. i tried rebooting and pressing F6 but it still launches os selector.

i cant do anything cant boot to windows, cant acces the os selector menu, im stuck with those error messages.

 

i did some research on internet but couldnt find anything that helped

 

please i need some help. did this happen to anyone else?? anyone know what i should do??

 

thanks

 

EDIT : problem half solved, made an acronis suite usb boot disk and uninstalled os selector and was able to go back to winxp.

tried to reinstall os selector again but still same problem, dont know what to do for dual boot, any suggestions??

Edited by longlife
Sniperwares
Sniperwares
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EDIT : problem half solved, made an acronis suite usb boot disk and uninstalled os selector and was able to go back to winxp.

tried to reinstall os selector again but still same problem, dont know what to do for dual boot, any suggestions??

 

USE Chain0 METHOD TO DUEL BOOT FROM WINDOWS. OR INSTALL OS SELECTOR AGAIN MAKE MAC PARTION ACTIVE FOR UR DEFAULT BOOT. AND THEN USE THE FOLLOWING METHOD TO DUEL BOOT FROM MAC

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=243116

 

BUT BEFORE RESTARTING DISBLE OS SECETOR OTHER WISE U R GONNA HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AGAIN.

 

i HOPE IT WILL HELP.

failurbydesign
failurbydesign
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I just want to say great work, your tutorial is great, now im sure you can tell im new, and i dont want to go through 70+ pages of data to find what i need..headache...i do have a few questions b4 i start. In cpuz, my pc supports mmx, sse, sse2, sse3. Not the pae...will this be a problem? Also whats a good amount of ram to have to run the os x86 smooth? Thanks in advanced!!!! :P

Pug306Break
Pug306Break
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Hi, please help me quick...

 

during the step 5, when u have to select my fat32 partition in disk utility, it shows only the DVD-RW that has the DVD to install...

 

:thumbsdown_anim: why this {censored} doesn´t show my HD and its partitions ???

 

thx in advance.

 

 

So, even without any answers, i knew (reading another How-to here) that my problem is SATA drive, cause this works fine just for IDE drives, and for SATA the solution is more difficult... well, in case some1 knows how, i´m still wating for help...

 

thx

Qweedle Guy
Qweedle Guy
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I am using two SATA hard drives. I just installed MacOSX on my 80gig. It works, but I can't get any of my hardware to work (i.e. network card, sound card, graphics card, etc...) I guess all I need is some kind of drivers but I have no idea where to get them.

 

I used the JaS 10.4.6 install dvd I found on The Pirate Bay.

 

My specs:

Intel D865GBF Motherboard

1gb DDR memory

Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz Processor (SSE2)

Creative Audigy II Sound Card

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900XT Graphics Card

Netgear WG311v2 Wireless Network Card

Qweedle Guy
Qweedle Guy
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It runs very nice. :(

 

I downloaded the MacVidia driver and it works great. Also I plugged my speakers into my mainboard's onboard sound card and that works too! Now all I need to do is get the internet working and I'm all set.

 

But there is one small problem...Every now and then, pretty much just randomly, the system hangs for no apparent reason. I have no idea what could be causing this.

 

EDIT: Oh yea I forgot to mention, I installed iTunes 7 but when I try to run it, I get a "not enough available memory to launch" error. But I have 2 512mb sticks of RAM and OSX detects both sticks. iTunes 6 works fine, though.

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