Installation Questions

[Kinjid]

Okay well, I have a friend who has a mac, and let me try it, and I loved it so much better than Windows.

I asked her what version of Mac it was and said it was a Leopard(Thus my reason for posting here)

 

I have read over the installing guides but all seem to be turned towards people who know all this programming lingo(At least that's how it seems to me.)

Q w/ Needed Answers

1. iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Universal Final, is the one I am looking at using, and suggestions if it isn't a good one?
   
2. Below are my system specs, are they able to run Mac OS X?
   
3. If I am installing Mac OS X by itself, is Chameleon needed?
   
4. What is a Kext?
   
5. Is there any simple to understand guides for people who have to ask the questions above?(I have read most guides in the wiki, on on forums, and most still leave me with these same questions.
   
   

 

 

 

 

System Specs

• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 @ 2.66GHz (MMX, SSE(1, 2, 3,), SSSE3, SSE4.1, EM64T)
  
• Mobo: Foxconn MCP73M0P w/ GeForce 7050 and nForce 610i
  
• Memory: DDR2 4GG, Single Channel.
  
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT 512MB DDR2
  

[nenitosoyyo]

1. iPC OSx86 10.5.6 Universal Final, is the one I am looking at using, and suggestions if it isn't a good one?

I tried to use this version but it just would never boot for setup, but thats my laptop, so it might work, other wise there is many others out there, I have used with success on my laptop is kalyway 10.5.2 and iAtkos v7 10.5.7 but give iPC a try, it wont hurt.

 

2. Below are my system specs, are they able to run Mac OS X?

They look more than fine to me, you should be able to get the os x running fine. It will be a bit of work but patience is the key, also reading a lot, but I mean reading everything on guides just to get an idea of what your doing, which I noticed that you haven't probably read much since you don't know what a kext file is.

 

3. If I am installing Mac OS X by itself, is Chameleon needed?

Chameleon is a bootloader, which meaning that if you are wanting to boot into os x and windows, its good to have, I installed it on my laptop just in case I ever wanted to install windows on it. I would say that Chameleon V2 is my fav.

 

4. What is a Kext?

Basically its like a driver, there is information inside of it, that makes things work in os x like video card kext, sound card kexts, its what make things functional on the computer.

 

5. Is there any simple to understand guides for people who have to ask the questions above?(I have read most guides in the wiki, on on forums, and most still leave me with these same questions.

 

There are many guides on here also there are other sites as well like:

infinitemac.com

hackint0sh.org

hackintosh.com/

 

Those are some, and there's much more out there, just search google. Just a little over a week ago, I didn't know swap about doing all this stuff, but after reading and searching I learned a lot, but one thing I must give as a tip is to have a lot of patience, because things aren't going to happen just in a snap, it takes a while to get things working great, sometimes you will get lucky, but usually that doesn't happen. Good luck.

 

Oh one more thing, you might have a bit of trouble with your video card, because its a 512mb but it shouldnt be to hard to get it working, there are a lot of guides on how to get it to work.

[srs5694]

nenitosoyyo has covered some of this, so I'll just add a couple extra comments:

 

• The obscure "lingo" you've encountered isn't programming "lingo," it's Mac OS X (and to some extent Unix) system administration terminology and commands. Kexts, boot loaders, shell commands (cd, ls, cp, etc.), extensions, etc. are all things that people need to deal with when configuring and using OS X at a low level, but they aren't C, C++, Pascal, Perl, or other programming constructs. Because running OS X on PC hardware isn't covered by Apple's usual GUI tools, OSx86 users end up using these low-level tools and features more than do those who run OS X on Apple hardware. Once it's running, you may not need to deal with such things on a day-to-day basis, but you may need to do so if/when it comes time to upgrade your software or hardware.
  
• Unlike nenitosoyyo, I've had good luck with iPC; however, a couple of other distributions (iDeneb, and iAtkos) are of similar vintage or newer, and are liked by others, and I've not tried either of these. Unfortunately, picking a distribution is a hit-or-miss thing; Distribution A may work fine on System 1 but not on System 2, whereas Distribution B works fine on System 2 but not on System 1.