Is it possible to install 10.6 retail without existing mac?

[Ecsa0014]

I have plenty of experience with windows and linux but I am a total noob to creating a hackintosh. I have purchased a retail family pack of snow leopard but every guide I have found so far requires a pre-existing osx install for preparing the thumb drive. Unfortunately, No one I know has a Mac and I am stuck on dial-up (live in the sticks) so I can't download a huge pre-hacked distro. Is it possible to accomplish this without a pre-existing osx install? I have read that Bootthink for windows could accomplish this but it did not explain how to do this. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

 

I have two computers I would like to install Snow Leopard on. One has a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P V. 1.1 w/ Q9550 and the other has a Gigabyte G31M-ES2L V. 1.1 w/ E5200.

[shorty9861]

I have plenty of experience with windows and linux but I am a total noob to creating a hackintosh. I have purchased a retail family pack of snow leopard but every guide I have found so far requires a pre-existing osx install for preparing the thumb drive. Unfortunately, No one I know has a Mac and I am stuck on dial-up (live in the sticks) so I can't download a huge pre-hacked distro. Is it possible to accomplish this without a pre-existing osx install? I have read that Bootthink for windows could accomplish this but it did not explain how to do this. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

 

I have two computers I would like to install Snow Leopard on. One is a EP45-UD3P V. 1.1 w/ Q9550 and the other has a Gigabyte G31M-ES2L V. 1.1 w/ E5200.

 

Let me tell you, my friend, as a fellow noob to hackintosh creations, I asked the same question without responses. I to purchased a box set (snow leo, ilife, iwork) and was told the snow leo disk was a full version. NOT!!! Apple lied to me. As you have read tis true; you will need to have leopard (10.5) installed prior to a snow leo install. Apple doesn't seem to sell them anymore so you will need to acquire this somehow.

I built a new rig just for snow leopard with the GA-EP45-UD3P, Q9550, SATA dvd & HHD. Loaded a boot132 and fired up 10.5. Things are going OK, I have internet right away but you need to download osx tools in order to have the machine boot into OSX otherwise you will always need your boot loader disk.

I can't tell you much more than that right now because that is as far as I've gotten. Good luck.

[MacModifier]

I have plenty of experience with windows and linux but I am a total noob to creating a hackintosh. I have purchased a retail family pack of snow leopard but every guide I have found so far requires a pre-existing osx install for preparing the thumb drive. Unfortunately, No one I know has a Mac and I am stuck on dial-up (live in the sticks) so I can't download a huge pre-hacked distro. Is it possible to accomplish this without a pre-existing osx install? I have read that Bootthink for windows could accomplish this but it did not explain how to do this. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

 

I have two computers I would like to install Snow Leopard on. One is a EP45-UD3P V. 1.1 w/ Q9550 and the other has a Gigabyte G31M-ES2L V. 1.1 w/ E5200.

 

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=187358 This was my post, and to your question, "Is it possible to accomplish this without a pre-existing osx install?" The answer is Yes. Follow the last guide at the top of the thread using kdetech's bootloader. You will have to download his bootloader and burn it to a CD though. It is 768.8KB's in size. Let me know if this helps you, it should work on the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P if you can at least download and burn kdetech's bootloader.

[tseug]

I have plenty of experience with windows and linux but I am a total noob to creating a hackintosh. I have purchased a retail family pack of snow leopard but every guide I have found so far requires a pre-existing osx install for preparing the thumb drive. Unfortunately, No one I know has a Mac and I am stuck on dial-up (live in the sticks) so I can't download a huge pre-hacked distro. Is it possible to accomplish this without a pre-existing osx install? I have read that Bootthink for windows could accomplish this but it did not explain how to do this. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

 

I have two computers I would like to install Snow Leopard on. One is a EP45-UD3P V. 1.1 w/ Q9550 and the other has a Gigabyte G31M-ES2L V. 1.1 w/ E5200.

 

With regards to EP45-UD3P there should be some boot CD guides out there. What kind of graphics card do you have? If you have Nvidia, you can try my guide. Nobody has reported success (or failure) on EP45-UD3P yet, so make sure to report the results.

 

Let me tell you, my friend, as a fellow noob to hackintosh creations, I asked the same question without responses. I to purchased a box set (snow leo, ilife, iwork) and was told the snow leo disk was a full version. NOT!!! Apple lied to me. As you have read tis true; you will need to have leopard (10.5) installed prior to a snow leo install. Apple doesn't seem to sell them anymore so you will need to acquire this somehow.

I built a new rig just for snow leopard with the GA-EP45-UD3P, Q9550, SATA dvd & HHD. Loaded a boot132 and fired up 10.5. Things are going OK, I have internet right away but you need to download osx tools in order to have the machine boot into OSX otherwise you will always need your boot loader disk.

I can't tell you much more than that right now because that is as far as I've gotten. Good luck.

 

The Snow Leopard DVD is a full version, so you don't need Leopard.

[Ecsa0014]

With regards to EP45-UD3P there should be some boot CD guides out there. What kind of graphics card do you have? If you have Nvidia, you can try my guide. Nobody has reported success (or failure) on EP45-UD3P yet, so make sure to report the results.

 

 

 

The Snow Leopard DVD is a full version, so you don't need Leopard.

 

Thanks for the reply. I am using a Nvidia GTX280 but I also have a Nvidia 9800GTX I could swap in if need be. Your suggestion looks promising. I'll be sure to give your guide a try tomorrow, as it's gotten pretty late.

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=187358 This was my post, and to your question, "Is it possible to accomplish this without a pre-existing osx install?" The answer is Yes. Follow the last guide at the top of the thread using kdetech's bootloader. You will have to download his bootloader and burn it to a CD though. It is 768.8KB's in size. Let me know if this helps you, it should work on the Gigabyte EP45-UD3P if you can at least download and burn kdetech's bootloader.

 

 

Thanks for the reply. Your suggestion looks promising also. I'll be sure to give it a try tomorrow, As it's already gotten pretty late.

[MacModifier]

Thanks for the reply. I am using a Nvidia GTX280 but I also have a Nvidia 9800GTX I could swap in if need be. Your suggestion looks promising. I'll be sure to give your guide a try tomorrow, as it's gotten pretty late.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the reply. Your suggestion looks promising also. I'll be sure to give it a try tomorrow, As it's already gotten pretty late.

 

 

 

Ecsa0014,

 

If you follow my outline, please post your experiences on my thread, thanks.

[scorcho]

as someone using a UD3P with an overclocked Q6600 I can also testify that 10.6 runs beautifully on my system with minimal system/OS hacks needed. most of the changes you'll need to make can be done on your DSDT file, which will allow you to enable sound, potentially fix sleep, USB ports.

 

when i first installed 10.6 there weren't any UD3P-specific threads, so I followed a generic one that required a previous 10.5.x installation. for that I used iatkos v7, which worked great.

 

on a minor note, and if you have the hard drive space for it, it's always wise to clone your mint 10.6 installation to a separate partition/drive just in case something goes wrong in the future. it's damn easy to do using software like Backuplist+. that's saved my butt a couple of times when i've borked things with my efi partition.

[Ecsa0014]

Ecsa0014,

 

If you follow my outline, please post your experiences on my thread, thanks.

 

 

I'll be sure to do it.

 

as someone using a UD3P with an overclocked Q6600 I can also testify that 10.6 runs beautifully on my system with minimal system/OS hacks needed. most of the changes you'll need to make can be done on your DSDT file, which will allow you to enable sound, potentially fix sleep, USB ports.

 

when i first installed 10.6 there weren't any UD3P-specific threads, so I followed a generic one that required a previous 10.5.x installation. for that I used iatkos v7, which worked great.

 

on a minor note, and if you have the hard drive space for it, it's always wise to clone your mint 10.6 installation to a separate partition/drive just in case something goes wrong in the future. it's damn easy to do using software like Backuplist+. that's saved my butt a couple of times when i've borked things with my efi partition.

 

Thanks for the reply. Hard drive space is something I have no shortage of. I'll be sure to follow your suggestion and clone my hopefully successfull installation.