Just trying to understand a procedure

[Dannons]

Hi Guys, short time reader, first time call...poster.

 

Laptop 1

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I have for the past week or so being furiously trying to install 10.5 onto a spare machine that I have been given, that machine is a Dell Inspiron 5160 (P4 3Ghz, 1Gb RAM) I have had some success, I can install Kalyway 10.5.2 with no issues and upgrade to 10.5.5 with no issues but as soon as I try going to 10.5.6 I keep getting the "You must restart, hold down your power button", I have made sure to follow necessary procedures, such as installing OSx86 Tools, installed the 2 needed kexts (disabler and decrypt AFAIR), looking for Dont Steal MAC OS X in the InstallAtStartup/1 script which isn't there. So no matter how many times I try I always end up after restarting and doing 'update' with the "You must restart, hold down your power button".

 

Last night I tried iAtkos v7 and iDeneb 10.5.8 Lite, both of which install beautifully, but as soon as it restarts and is left the grey apple screen appears (after cham. v2) and then seems to load for a minute before either just stopping loading or continuing to load but with a grey kind of stop sign in the middle, I have done -v and -s to try to look into this and I generally get "waiting for root device", from what I have read after taking in as much knowledge as possible in the last week, this is a drive issue for my motherboard and IDE controller, does that sound about right?

 

 

Laptop 2

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Anyway on with the next idea, now I have decided to move away from that try on my other laptop, a HP dv8210, I came across this and it's my exact laptop, so I have download the XxX 10.5.6 Universal release, as used in this description and am ready to go apart from one thing....it says this:

 

HW Tools to make it easy

- Another PC with an updated BIOS

- A IDE/USB 2,5 HD Box

- An external DVD/USB Player

Even if there are tricks to install it directly from the Internal DVD or an external one (waiting 10 second before pressing the right device on "Boot Select" at bios) is faster if you use another PC (Darwin Friendly) to prepare your hard disk in the IDE/USB box (to avoid jumper issues/freezes on ATA disks)

Now my issue is I'm not entirely sure what to do here, I know I am meant to take out my HDD, put in a caddy and attach to an already running system with MacOS on it (I will be putting 10.5.2 on my other machine again) but once I've done that I don't know what it is suggesting, is it suggesting that I should copy the contents on the DVD to a small partition to avoid loading straight from the DVD drive? (if I do load I get a "still waiting for root device" over and over as I guess my ATAPI DVD drive isn't compatiable when booting OSx86 discs)

 

Just to give you a quick overview of the install, I am installing on a 80 gig drive, with 2 40gig partitions, one of which already has Windows XP on, I am now wanting OSx86 on the other 40 gig.

 

Thanks for reading this, I know it's been a long slog but the community here mostly seems nice enough and I hope someone will be able to help. All I wanted to do was install the latest iPhone SDK to see how difficult developing was so I could decide whether to save up for a Mac or not but alas, I need 10.5.7 at least for the latest SDK.

 

One last thing, if anyone knows if Snow Leopard will work on either of these systems, any tips would be appreciated, I have that to try too.