Sucess Install iDeneb 10.5.7 on a P4 SSE2

[pololebreton1]

Hi all

Here is my Succes Story for iDeneb 10.5.7 installation on a Pentium 4

Before I start, I would like to thank all the OSX86 communauty, developpers at iDeneb,

and nice people who are posting and helping here.

Please forgive me for the spelling of my "Frenchy" English...

Hope it will help some of you and give hope again to people

who have old (but not too) machines with single core on it !

 

My Hardware is:

Asus P4P800 Motherboard with Intel Chipset

Pentium 4 (SSE2) CPU @2.4Ghz

ATI X1600 256Mb on AGP port

Soundblaster live on PCI port

Very cheap Ethernet card on PCI port

 

Hard disk preparation :

I had an already formated HFS+ partition on whitch I had Jas 10.4.8 working well.

I decide to overwrite it.

First of all, I got some issues when trying to erase the partition with embedded disk utility tool

on the iDeneb 10.5.7 DVD. I found out it was because I had a Partition Scheme known as MBR

rather than the requested GUID.

I finally boot the 10.4.8 Jas DVD to erase my HFS+ partition (and btw keep the partition sheme as is)

and leave installation

I booted again the iDeneb 10.5.7 DVD and selected the brand new fresh partition as a destination

 

Installation options :

I selected "French" as additionnal langage

I selected the SeatBelt Fix under the Fix menu (mandatory)

I selected the 9.5.0 VooDoo Kernel under the Kernel Menu

I selected the Creative SoundBlaster under the Audio Menu

I selected ICHX Fixed under the Chipset Menu

and that's it, nothing else, then I started installation (bypassing the DVD check)

It took me about 40 minutes to complete and have the sucess screen asking you to reboot

 

Reboot :

iDeneb 10.5.7 default boots with Chameleon V2, you have to press a key to select options

and once OSX is selected press space bar.

"Boot" will appear at the bottom of the screen and you have to type -f -v then [ENTER] and

OSX will start to boot displaying many messages, and finally come up.

 

After installation :

- Sound is OK

- Network is OK

- Mounting USB disks is OK

 

Even if you don't have the correct driver for your video card you always can improve the resolution

This is something I learnt on Jas and that works (I tested it) on Leopard

 

Open terminal then type

sudo pico /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

- Add the following lines in the file

<key>Graphics Mode</key>

<string>1280x1024x32</string>

Save the file (CTRL X) then Y

and reboot

 

To have the X1600 fully driven

I got a very usefull tool called OSX86 Tools

http://code.google.com/p/osx86tools/downloads/list

I got the X1600 driver found here

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=186270

I deleted all ATI files in the extension folder

sudo rm -Rf /System/Library/Extensions/ATI*

Then copy the driver into extension folder

sudo cp -Rf /Users/pololebreton1/Desktop/ATI_x1600_ResChange_QE_MacOs_10.5.8/* /System/Library/Extensions/

 

Launch OSX86Tools

and check Set Extensions permissions then Apply

Reboot !

 

Save time :

I installed many many time because previous X1600 driver I found freezed OSX

I used Ghost (Ghost 9 on XP) to clone my HFS+ partition and it takes only

34 minutes to have a working pre-installed OSX system in case you broke something when

trying a driver..

 

Enjoy

Polo

[DaniC]

thnxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx now i test this configuration, i have a p4c800: for this mobo, it's the same configuration.

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