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I know there has been lots of different flavors of hacked OSX. Which one would you guys recommend for latest 10.5 (is it 10.5.8)? I picked up a Gigabyte board with a Core 2 Duo and I want to install mac on it. I've used iDeneb before but don't like the custom boot screen and all that kind of custom stuff. I want as close to the real thing as possible. I've looked at iPC's release, and Kalyway (does Kalyway have a version over 10.5.2?) Anyways, I would just like some thoughts and opinions of which one I should download and install.

 

Thanks.

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I know there has been lots of different flavors of hacked OSX. Which one would you guys recommend for latest 10.5 (is it 10.5.8)? I picked up a Gigabyte board with a Core 2 Duo and I want to install mac on it. I've used iDeneb before but don't like the custom boot screen and all that kind of custom stuff. I want as close to the real thing as possible. I've looked at iPC's release, and Kalyway (does Kalyway have a version over 10.5.2?) Anyways, I would just like some thoughts and opinions of which one I should download and install.

 

Thanks.

 

 

Which Gigabyte board did you buy?

 

 

The option that we are going to suggest 99.9% of the time is to do a retail install.

 

Typically boot the machine with a Boot-132 disc (which you can freely download), then pop in your purchased 10.5 dvd and install it.

 

Usually just a couple kext files need installed to support your hardware (sound, video and etc) and then you are in business with an install thats as close to retail on a real Mac as possible.

 

I don't blame you for wanting to get away from those hacked up distro versions of OS X. Retail install is the way to go if you have hardware that supports it.

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Which Gigabyte board did you buy?

 

 

The option that we are going to suggest 99.9% of the time is to do a retail install.

 

Typically boot the machine with a Boot-132 disc (which you can freely download), then pop in your purchased 10.5 dvd and install it.

 

Usually just a couple kext files need installed to support your hardware (sound, video and etc) and then you are in business with an install thats as close to retail on a real Mac as possible.

 

I don't blame you for wanting to get away from those hacked up distro versions of OS X. Retail install is the way to go if you have hardware that supports it.

 

Yea I forgot to mention the retail install. I'm assuming a retail installation also will not do major updates like iDeneb? I purchased a GA-EP45-UD3R.

 

I've heard alot of good things about Gigabyte and this board in particular for mac installations.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128359

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Yea I forgot to mention the retail install. I'm assuming a retail installation also will not do major updates like iDeneb? I purchased a GA-EP45-UD3R.

 

I've heard alot of good things about Gigabyte and this board in particular for mac installations.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128359

 

 

That should be an excellent board and should easily allow you to do a retail install on it.

 

I had the next model up, the GA-EP45-UD3P, same onboard audio and nic chipsets. Was a great board and an easy retail install. You should be able to follow any guide for the UD3P versions for a retail install.

 

Forum member weaksauce12 has probably one of the best guide for installing OS X 10.5 onto the UD3 series boards.

 

http://leopardsoup.pbworks.com/ud3p

 

But, his wiki is down for maintenance. Should be back(hopefully) in a week or so.

 

 

But, you could also try this guide:

 

http://auzigog.com/2008/12/23/hackintosh-20/

 

 

I have personally followed it and it worked great as well.

 

 

In a nutshell you follow these steps:

 

1. Make sure bios is configured correctly.

 

2. Boot off a Boot-132 disc.

 

3. Pop in a retail Leopard 10.5 disc and install it to you HD.

 

4. Reboot after install and boot again off the Boot-132 disc (since Chameleon bootloader isn't installed yet).

 

5. Apply most recent 10.5.8 point release. Some prefer 10.5.7 due to sleep issues. Mileage may vary.

 

6. Reboot again and boot with Boot-132

 

6. Using UInstaller and install audio and network kext files (along with a couple others) and install Chameleon.

 

7. Take out the Boot-132 disc and reboot. Machine will now boot correctly off you HD.

 

8. Run software update and get all the system updates.

 

Finished.

 

 

Now, I left a couple things out depending on your graphics card and such.

 

 

 

What Graphics card do you intend to use?

 

 

Also, for maximum compatibility, make sure you are using both a SATA hard drive and dvd drive. IDE is headache for some and best to simply avoid since Apple doesn't use it anymore.

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Wow, thanks a lot. Pretty much everything I will need. I had used iDeneb before with an AMD machine which you probably can guess how well that went. It would just randomly crash and it took a lot of hacking to get it to work. Anyways, this is graphics card I will be using:

 

EVGA 512-P3-N841-AR GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16814130325

 

It's the card from my AMD machine. I didn't have any issues with it in my last experience so hopefully it won't be an issue now.