jcafaro10 Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Is this possible? Has it ever been done? I want to install Leopard on an external usb hard drive and then be able to boot it up from my PC. I have an Inspiron 1420 running Windows XP. I want to do IPhone Development and I don't want to buy a mac. I understand that there are different distributions floating around that might be able to work. I'd like to know if anyone has successfully done this and can provide a few tips, specifically what distribution/settings. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175303-installing-leopard-on-usb-external-hard-drive-for-pc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Is this possible? Has it ever been done? I want to install Leopard on an external usb hard drive and then be able to boot it up from my PC. I have an Inspiron 1420 running Windows XP. I want to do IPhone Development and I don't want to buy a mac. I understand that there are different distributions floating around that might be able to work. I'd like to know if anyone has successfully done this and can provide a few tips, specifically what distribution/settings. I've not done that with my laptop, but it certainly works just fine with a USB drive in a desktop. Be aware though, it will be considerably slower than on an SATA drive...but still workable. Of course, this is all contingent on whether your laptop is a Leopard compatible system or not (are there the proper kexts etc. available). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175303-installing-leopard-on-usb-external-hard-drive-for-pc/#findComment-1202632 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcafaro10 Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 I've not done that with my laptop, but it certainly works just fine with a USB drive in a desktop. Be aware though, it will be considerably slower than on an SATA drive...but still workable. Of course, this is all contingent on whether your laptop is a Leopard compatible system or not (are there the proper kexts etc. available). I think however slow it is, it won't be slower than a vm so I'm happy about that. Besides, I'd imagine it'd only be slow when it reads from disk right? With 4GB of RAM hopefully I won't have to go to disk that much. So how do I know if my system is Leopard compatible or not? It's an Inspiron 1420 and I've heard people have been able to get OSX to run on this. Which distro/guide/tutorial do you recommend? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175303-installing-leopard-on-usb-external-hard-drive-for-pc/#findComment-1202663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcafaro10 Posted July 18, 2009 Author Share Posted July 18, 2009 I started trying to get this to work with no success. Here are the steps I've currently tried: 1) Plug USB drive into Inspiron 1420 2) Put Kalway distro dvd in drive 3) Boot to Kalway dvd This doesn't work however as I can't even get to the install screen using this disk. I'm going to try and use another distro. I've heard people have had success with Leo4All V3 or IAtkos v1.0ir2 with an Inspiron 1420. Any other suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175303-installing-leopard-on-usb-external-hard-drive-for-pc/#findComment-1203067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcafaro10 Posted July 18, 2009 Author Share Posted July 18, 2009 I'm trying with iAtkos now. I've successfully got the install dvd to boot up and now I'm confused on which options to check. I have an Inspiron 1420. What should I choose for Bootloader? Choices are, Darwin X86 Bootloader, Darwin EFI bootlaoder, stock apple acpiplatform.kext, or stock kernel? For patches, what patches should I install? SSE2 SSE3 kernel, remove cpupowermanagement driver, remove thermal kexts? Is it safe to install the gma x3100 driver? How about the SATA support for JMicron and ICH9R? Edit: Darwin x86 Bootloader + GMA x3100 driver only = no boot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175303-installing-leopard-on-usb-external-hard-drive-for-pc/#findComment-1203488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcafaro10 Posted July 19, 2009 Author Share Posted July 19, 2009 I can also verify that EFI + GMA x3100 driver only does not work. Any other ideas before I give up on iatkos? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175303-installing-leopard-on-usb-external-hard-drive-for-pc/#findComment-1203517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcafaro10 Posted July 21, 2009 Author Share Posted July 21, 2009 Someone has to have tried this before. Please shed some light on my situation if you can Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175303-installing-leopard-on-usb-external-hard-drive-for-pc/#findComment-1205557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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