mbw163 Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Hello, I have decided to take this task and install Osx onto my Sony Sz120 laptop. I have the Jas 10.4.6 version ready to be burnt onto a dvd. I have found this guide from the OSx86 wiki. http://www.profit42.com/index.php/2006/05/...ndows-computer/ Everything seems to be easy so far. Now I was talking to someone from another forum who has installed this (not the same version) onto their SZ120 and said that steps 5 to end I can disregard. Do I need to do the others? Maybe it is safer just to go about follwing it? I'm not sure waht to do. Any other suggestions or comments are helpful. I hear that audio, and wireless don't work. Hopefully someone will have a fix for this soon? Thank you! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17488-hello-everyone-preliminary-questions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 You mean step 5. Close the command window. I guess that's up to you. Leave it open if you want to. It doesn't matter. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17488-hello-everyone-preliminary-questions/#findComment-112883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbw163 Posted May 15, 2006 Author Share Posted May 15, 2006 What I meant was after step five to the end... Oh well... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17488-hello-everyone-preliminary-questions/#findComment-112943 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Ok I understand what you mean. I never needed to do steps 5 and on. But i would say have a spfdisk on hand just in case you have problems with setting the active partition. So leave step 5 and on out and continue and only come back to it if you have problems which has to do with the active partition. My active partition was my OSx partition (it did this automatically so I needed to do nothing) but when I deleted the OSx partition and tried to only use my XP partition (my system was a dual boot system) it wouldn't boot. Because my XP part wasn't the active part. So using the spfdisk would have helped. Hope that helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17488-hello-everyone-preliminary-questions/#findComment-112949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbw163 Posted May 15, 2006 Author Share Posted May 15, 2006 So if I would like XP to be my main os, then I would need to have the spfdisk for everything to work properly? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17488-hello-everyone-preliminary-questions/#findComment-113060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbw163 Posted May 16, 2006 Author Share Posted May 16, 2006 I just burnt my image to the disc using alcohol 120. IT shows up under the dvd drive that it is only like 128kb, but while burning in Alcohol it showed up as being 4. some GB. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17488-hello-everyone-preliminary-questions/#findComment-113404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xeniczone Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 I will be happy to help you. Do you own a MAC OS X 10.4 lisence paper you can show us first? Just take a picture of it with a piece of paper with your screen name on it. If you don't have one I recommend you buy one form APPLE ASAP. they cost 130 dollars and come with the apple DVD disk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17488-hello-everyone-preliminary-questions/#findComment-113409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted May 16, 2006 Share Posted May 16, 2006 He's being a {censored} head as always. The DVD was burned correct. Thats what they all say. Just continue to follow the steps. Otherwise you can follow what i did here using the 10.4.6 DVD instead. Firstly search for "Mac OS X 10.4.4/5 osx86 Patched Bootable DVD" in Pirate Bay and download it. The exact name is "Mac OS X 10.4.4/5 osx86 Patched Bootable DVD". Its a 4.35GB iso file so it's gona take a while. I got the info to download that here: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=10614 But basically you don't need to view the page as long as you can find the download. Then I followed the following guide. I didn’t need to use Partition Magic as I already had unpartitioned space on my 250Gb drive. Most people don’t. So you need to know how to use Partition Magic. I never needed to so don’t still. http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=13014 Shortened the quote a little below: 1. Have Partition Magic (version 8 prefered) 2. have space as much as you can I allocated 60GB to OS X 20GB for win XP and 500GB for XP as well but OS X reads (read only )NTFS just fine so 500GB is readable by both OS's 3.1st run partition magic and create (or resize) as much free space as you can after your windows partition and before any extended partition (thus creating 2 primary partitions) it is Crucial that the allocated non-formated space be AFTER the windows partition make sure the space is marked as Unallocated space 4. press apply and if required reboot to make the changes. 5. when done boot normally and click start then run type in "diskpart" (no quotes) press enter 6. type "list disk" press enter 7. type "select disk 0" press enter (if you are installing to same drive as windows) 8. type "list part" press enter you will notice you do not see the empty space you made in Partition magic 9. type "create partition primary id=af" then press enter 10. type "list part" press enter now you will see the the new partition OS X will be installed on. 11. type "exit" press enter Burn the "MacOSX_10.4.4DVD patched 10.4.4.iso" with Nero choose burn image in nero from the recorder menu (I used Nero 7.0.1.4) (I tried Alcohol 120% but it said it wouldn't fit although Nero didn't care) boot off the DVD.. once you get to the part where OS X asks where you want to install you must launch the Disk Utility to erase the partition you created earlier once done OS X installs fine In the setup under customize there is an AMD enabler. Make sure to have this checked if you have an AMD system or remover it if you don't need it, once installed enjoy. the Darwin Boot Loader defaults to OSX but if a key is pressed within 10 seconds it lets you boot to what ever drive Windows is on. Hope the info provided helps you though. All the best. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17488-hello-everyone-preliminary-questions/#findComment-113425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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