Software updates

[J.T.P.]

Hello everyone, obviously I'm new here...

 

I just got my hackintosh up and running today, dual-booting XP Pro and Kalyway 10.5.2 with no problems. My question - and I'm sure that it's been answered before, but I've read as much as I can find and all the information seems to be conflicting - is whether or not I can update from Apple with this version of OSX. I started up iTunes for the first time and it found updates for Airport, iTunes, Quicktime, and OSX itself (version 10.5.8). I've heard that updating from Apple will detect my non-Apple hardware and disable the OS from booting. Is this true? If it is true, is it possible to update individual programs some other way?

 

Thanks for looking.

[amw_drizz]

Hello J.T.P And Welcome to the forums, I'd advise using search on these forums as it may lead to your answers.

 

I do have used Kalyway in the past but switched to iDeneb

 

It really depends on how you installed OSX. You said you used the Kalyway 10.5.2 Install disk, That tells me that more than likely you needed/installed a modified kernel for MAC OS X to load.

 

Pretty much if you know that you are using a modified kernel then updates are rather limited, and it will take some googling and searching these forums for an combo update that will work with your install.

 

If you are using the vanilla kernel (meaning the one that ships on the retail dvd) Then update away. I currently have the iDeneb v1.4 install which uses the vanilla kernel by default. So I just upgrade with out worry.

 

Word Of Advice!! Please READ

 

If you haven't done so already do this now, Take a partition on your hard drive and keep it relatively small about no more than 15gb with no programs installed other than whats needed. ie kext helper b7, and a few others like that. Now since you already have OS X installed, you can just use the backup / restore function in disk utilities. And upon next boot the boot loader should see the install already. If not it is pretty easy to add it to the boot loader so you can boot to it.

 

Doing that has saved my butt a few times, messed up my main install and just restored the image from the working backup. And your back in business again, and it will save you time on the reinstall.

 

One last note. If space allows have 3 OS X installs, One Primary, One working Back up for the primary (for recovery purposes) and one test install that you will test install all of your kexts, updates, and other tweaks on it. So if it crashes you can recover from the Working backup and try again. And once your successful then just reapply what you did in the test install to your main install then your back up install so it stays somewhat even and your not taking ten steps back when you need to restore from your working backup.

 

If you have any more questions, or need more info I am sure most of us will be glad to help since this is a community project

 

HTH Jon