2600MHz Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 My specs from CPU-Z are attached. What's the best method to use to install Snow Leopard? I own a retail disk, but I don't have anything I can use to restore it onto (except a second internal HD on the Windows computer I wanna convert to a Hackintosh, useless because I can't run Disk Utility), and I can't find a BootCD that works on my CPU (not surprising, of course, but I thought I might as well give it a try). Thanks in advance! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208794-best-method-for-this-hardware/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 My specs from CPU-Z are attached. What's the best method to use to install Snow Leopard? I own a retail disk, but I don't have anything I can use to restore it onto (except a second internal HD on the Windows computer I wanna convert to a Hackintosh, useless because I can't run Disk Utility), and I can't find a BootCD that works on my CPU (not surprising, of course, but I thought I might as well give it a try). Thanks in advance! See here...... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208794-best-method-for-this-hardware/#findComment-1394434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2600MHz Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 See here...... Thanks! Is there any way to run from that kernel without Disk Utility, though? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208794-best-method-for-this-hardware/#findComment-1394437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Thanks! Is there any way to run from that kernel without Disk Utility, though? Not sure if TransMac can help in part...... My suggestion would be to use a Leopard distro like Kalyway 10.5.2, iPC 10.5.6 etc. to set up a 10GB volume on your HDD onto which you install Leopard and then use that to set up what you need to install Snow Leopard onto a another volume on the HDD......alternatively, install Leopard onto a bootable 8GB USB flash drive, provided that your MOBO BIOS can boot USB devices...... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208794-best-method-for-this-hardware/#findComment-1394442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2600MHz Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 I just had an idea... I have an external drive I use for MacBook Time Machine backups! Can I partition that without stopping TM from working? If so, I can just use that! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208794-best-method-for-this-hardware/#findComment-1394445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 I just had an idea... I have an external drive I use for MacBook Time Machine backups! Can I partition that without stopping TM from working? If so, I can just use that! Not sure about resizing HDD volume if TM already installed......you will need to research that on Apple Time Machine discussions site I guess.....but see my suggestion in my post above about using a bootable USB flash drive..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208794-best-method-for-this-hardware/#findComment-1394459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2600MHz Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 Right, I did that tutorial you linked me to, all seems fine, but how do I get my PC to boot from the external HD? I have the Phoenix AwardBIOS, and I can't see any option to set the external hard drive as the boot device... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208794-best-method-for-this-hardware/#findComment-1394753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 Right, I did that tutorial you linked me to, all seems fine, but how do I get my PC to boot from the external HD? I have the Phoenix AwardBIOS, and I can't see any option to set the external hard drive as the boot device... Is the external HDD in a USB enclosure and did you make the HDD bootable? See here..... If you press F8 or F12 at boot up, do you go to a boot Device menu? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208794-best-method-for-this-hardware/#findComment-1394971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2600MHz Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 It is in a USB enclosure, yeah. Not sure what you mean by "make it bootable", I've done everything in the tutorial though. I'll check that software out tomorrow, but it looks like it'll need me to uninstall Cham first which would be inconvenient. If I hit F8, I get advanced startup options from Windows. Not sure about F12, again I'll check tomorrow and report back Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208794-best-method-for-this-hardware/#findComment-1394987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2600MHz Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 Right, I've installed Boot Think, and it works except... It dosen't show the external HD! In fact, it dosen't show anything except the Windows drive. Not the second internal HD either. I tried the thing to show more partitions (#p=+) but that did nothing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/208794-best-method-for-this-hardware/#findComment-1395596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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