XLostSpartanX Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Ok, well first off.... what makes this the best way? Well, it only takes 20 mins or so to get it set up (not including downloading), and the other thing is that you dont have to burn it to a DVD and install it. Ok, onto the tutorial. Credit of the tutorial goes to the people at orgfree.com, I did not make this tutorial, I just modified it so it was eaiser to follow. Tutorial - 1. Download the torrent named Details for Mac Os X Tiger 10.4.6 HardDisk Image from a certian Demo website. 2. Use Acronis or another partitioning program to resize a PRIMARY partition so that you have at least 6700 megabytes of unallocated disk space before any logical partition. If you need more space then you can also just make a fat 32 partition which windows and Os X both recognize so you can transfer files between the two operating systems, but be sure to leave 6800 megabytes of unallocated space for Mac Os X itself. Click on the start menu then click run to open up the run menu. 3. Type in diskpart and the command prompt should open up. 4. In the window that just came up type in "select disk X". (you replace x with the hard drive which you have configured in step one. example: "select disk 0" 5. Then type in "create partition primary size=6690 id=af" This will create the partition in which you will install OS X on. If it said it was unable to create the partition make sure you have enough unallocated disk space after your first primary partition. 6. Decompress the archive of the torrent. Make sure you decompress it on a NTFS volume because this file is larger than 4 gigabytes and it will write a corrupted image if you do it on fat or fat 32. 7. Drag the file named DD into the folder named tiger-x86. 8. Click start then click run to bring up the run menu. 9. In the run menu type cmd to bring up the command prompt. 10. Then type in "x:" into the command prompt. (x stands for the drive that you have the image stored on.) 11. Into the command prompt type "cd\folder\tiger-x86\tiger-x86\"(you can change the names after "cd\" if you keep your image somewhere else. each "\" represents a folder and "cd" is telling the command prompt to switch to that folder. 12. Now type into the command prompt "dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\HarddiskY\PartitionX bs=32256 skip=1 --progress" You change "Y" to the hard disk number you partition is on and x to which partition number you have created the os x partition on using diskpart so for an example: "dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2 bs=32256 skip=1 --progress. Note: harddisk0 is what it will be for most of you if you only have one hard drive. It should now be copying OS X to your hard drive. Note that -- progress is actually two dashes. 13. Now OS X is installed and you will want to Dual Boot. I used Acronis OS Manager that comes with Acronis Disk Director, it is very easy to use. Enjoy, Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedragon1971 Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 I really don't see how this is any faster or easier than simply downloading one of the pre-patched images and doing a regular native install. If anything, it's worse since it wouldn't allow you to customize the install with optional patches for your specific hardware. The ONLY advantage I see is not requiring a DVD burner (and that to me would be outweighed by the disadvantages). But come on, 90% or more of the people who would want to install OS X on their machines will already have one of those (or know someone who does that could burn the image for them). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XLostSpartanX Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 I really don't see how this is any faster or easier than simply downloading one of the pre-patched images and doing a regular native install. If anything, it's worse since it wouldn't allow you to customize the install with optional patches for your specific hardware. Doing that requires 2 hours or so for you to install. The HDD image also has some apps already installed that would not come on a regular install. IMO its just better. I dont know about the patches because I didn't need any, but on the 4 comps I have installed this on, they all work flawlessly. Btw, Im running on a 2 year old Gateway right now, and have a 4 year old compaq that runs it also, it had a P4. My grandparnts have a 2 month old Dell, and my grandfater has a 1 year old Gateway laptop. They all run it perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 It takes me an average of 15 minutes to install OS X. In Vmware and Native. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XLostSpartanX Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 It takes me an average of 15 minutes to install OS X. In Vmware and Native. Wow, 15 minutes? Thats amazing. One of my friends installed the JaS version on his new computer and it took around an hour... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Dunno what to tell you. It could be that his IDE isnt fully supported. Mine takes a little less time in vmware. It usually takes about 3 or 4 minutes to boot into the installer when installing natively. Then it takes about 10 or 15 minutes to fully install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XLostSpartanX Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 Dunno what to tell you. It could be that his IDE isnt fully supported. Mine takes a little less time in vmware. It usually takes about 3 or 4 minutes to boot into the installer when installing natively. Then it takes about 10 or 15 minutes to fully install. Hmm that really good. I tired it in VMware and it went fast (like you said) but I didn't use the DVD to install natively. My friend did though. I used the HDD image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 VMware's IDE is supported in DMA for both Hard Drive and DVD. Native only supports PIO for DVDroms, usually. which makes it slower. The hard drive image has serious disadvantages. But if those disadvantages dont matter to you, by all means... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XLostSpartanX Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 VMware's IDE is supported in DMA for both Hard Drive and DVD. Native only supports PIO for DVDroms, usually. which makes it slower. The hard drive image has serious disadvantages. But if those disadvantages dont matter to you, by all means... What kind of disadvantages? Everything seems to be working fine for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 If the image has an sse3 kernel, it wont boot on an sse2 cpu. If it doesnt have the AMD enabler installed, it wont work on an AMD. If it does have the AMD enabler, it will cause stability issues on an intel. If it has the sse2 kernel, it will work slowly on an sse3 cpu. The kexts included arent optimized by the intaller(person, not program), so may cause conflicts. Etc and so forth... It would be a good alternative to an install DVD for someone who wants the base 6gb drive, has an intel cpu with sse2 and an unsupported video card or a gma900. For everyone else, Jas or Goatsexz is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XLostSpartanX Posted July 6, 2006 Author Share Posted July 6, 2006 If the image has an sse3 kernel, it wont boot on an sse2 cpu. If it doesnt have the AMD enabler installed, it wont work on an AMD. If it does have the AMD enabler, it will cause stability issues on an intel. If it has the sse2 kernel, it will work slowly on an sse3 cpu. The kexts included arent optimized by the intaller(person, not program), so may cause conflicts. Etc and so forth... It would be a good alternative to an install DVD for someone who wants the base 6gb drive, has an intel cpu with sse2 and an unsupported video card or a gma900. For everyone else, Jas or Goatsexz is better. Well all I know is that it works great for me, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuscanspeed Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 Heh, this is the way I tried to begin with. After tinkering for several hours and not being able to get it to boot, i'm going to try the install DVD method. Crosses fingers. (This is already in one of the install guides btw) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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