iPC install - what options should I check in the selection screen?

[1337Breen]

Hello everybody!

The specs are:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (Socket 939)

2GB DDR Ram

ATI Radeon X1600SE

 

Mainboard: Some Acer-OEM-Stuff...

Northbridge: NVIDIA Geforce 6100

Southbridge: NVIDIA nForce 410/430

 

So my questions is:

What do I have to check during installation? I'm talking about this screen:

http://######.com/ipcosx86/wp-conte...ipcbetalist.png

 

What I'm sure about so far:

German language,

Voodoo Kernel (since I don't have an Intel Processor)

ATI Radeon X1600 Drivers

AppleNforceATAtest Drivers

AC97 Drivers

nForce Ethernet Driver

 

That's it.

What about

• USB Drivers?

• Power Management?

• Fixes and Patches?

• P/S2 Fixes?

• DSDT Patches?

• AppleSMBIOS Patch?

• Applications?

 

Thanks a whole lot in advance.

[Beerkex'd]

If you install voodoo 9.5.0 you need seatbelt.kext fix too.

 

Power management fixes are for laptops.

 

PS2 fixes are if you're using a PS2 keyboard

 

DSDT is not necessary...yet. But it's very interesting. Search if you want to know more. That goes for everything on the list. If you see something you don't understand, type it into google. You can find the information way faster than posting here and waiting for some jaded and bitter geek to arrive and explain things to you.

 

If you pick DSDT Patch, make sure to install the Chameleon bootloader that supports DSDT. If you install the DSDT/SM one, don't install any SMBIOS Patch. You'll then have to add the SMBIOS information manually to com.apple.boot.plist. Look up ChameleonSM for more information.

 

Applications, install anyone you want, look them up on google if you don't know what they do.

 

SMBIOS, pick anyone, there's no telling which one will work the best on your hardware. Search. Look up each one and see what they do.

 

USB fixes - no telling if you need them or not. You can always install them later. Search to find other people who installed on the same motherboard that you have to see if they needed USB fixes.

 

The best thing to do really is to install as little as you can get away with, to avoid possible conflicts during install. Then fix things once it boots into the system. But of course you can get lucky and it just works.

 

Three things most people don't seem to realize is that (1) everything on that list is available for download in this forum (some even in dedicated threads with all the information you need) or can be downloaded by following links that you can find here and (2) you can easily install anything that's on the DVD after you've installed the OS if you find you need it.

 

Number (3) is that nearly any question you can imagine have already been asked and answered in this forum. Use the search.