Jas 10.4.6 Install DVD Success!

[Xenon101]

Specifications

 

Motherboard: Abit AS8-V

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 521 (3GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 800FSB, LGA775)

RAM: Crucial DDR PC2700 512MB

 

SATA1: 160GB SATA Maxtor 7200rpm 16mb cache (Win XP)

 

IDE1: 120GB IDE Samsung 7200rpm 8mb cache (OS X)

IDE2: Pioneer DVD-R107 DVD-ReWriter 16x

 

Sound: Onboard AC97

Graphics: nVidia GeForce FX 5200 AGP 8x

 

Network: Onboard (unknown)

 

Aquisition

 

I aquired the JaS 10.4.6 patched install dvd through the mail from a friend telling me it works perfect and I should hurry and install.

 

Initial Thoughts

 

Having tried to install OS X 10.4.1 and 10.4.3 prieviously I found I absolutely couldn't boot the dvd and I had to install on vmware. It worked once but never again so I presumed that this wouldn't, however seing as my iPod is formatted for mac with 30gb music and I only have a PC i thought it would be worth a bash. I didn't bother to look into drivers or anything before install however I did setup the XP boot loader and use the chain0 file then I powered off, stuck in 2nd hdd in IDE and powered on.

 

Installation from DVD

 

It goes without saying I had to set the DVD-rom drive to boot before any HDD's. After doing this I booted with the disc in the drive and all was well, it started to boot and I saw the ever familiar grey screen with the apple logo and the spinning bar.

 

I noticed no HDD or DVD activity and started to fear the worst, but after a few minutes left to it's own devices the dvd drive started reading and a further few minutes later Mac OS X installation was on the screen! I was amazed that it had even got that far so I proceeded through install.

 

When it got to selecting the HDD I remembered that the HDD wasn't prepared at all, so I opened disk utility and made 2 partitons, 1 for main system, 1 for downloads. I formatted both as Mac OS X, Journaled, Case-Sensitive then returned to setup. It showed both and I chose the bigger then proceeded.

 

Next major part of install is choosing the custom setup instead of easy setup. I soon saw the option for Maxxuus patches and selected those suitable for me (10.4.6 intel, intel sse2, intel sse3).

 

Installation started which took around 15-20 minutes, much faster than I expected. It then wanted to reboot so I let it, but the comp hangs at this point so removal of power cable is necessary.

 

First boot

 

First boot came up and all went very very well! I saw the lovely grey apple logo and the spinning bar then it came up with the loading bar! Yay! After this I heard sound, I was amazed! The first time setup screen was up and it was all working great.

 

After finishing that it took me in and all was good as far as network, audio, usb etc was concerned but my gfx wasn't right.

 

I searched the forums right here for the NVDriver beta with installater and found it quickly, went through that and "Shut down" as it recommended. Shut down works! No hang and power cable removal needed! Booted back up and was slightly down to see the gfx still at 1024x768, but I went to system preferences and my card supports all its resolutions!

 

Finishing touches / testing

 

So by now I was pretty happy, my system seemed to be running great and it was even perhaps faster than windows xp! From my last experience I had found problems when letting the system sleep, hdd's sleep etc so I went to energy saver and disabled everything. Unfortunately I found the screen saver to run badly so I also disabled that.

 

From there I went on to run system update, which works perfectly. I didn't select the OS X 10.4.7 update or quicktime (as I own QT6 pro i aint removing functionality) but selected everything else. Then I plugged in my ipod, itunes opens I agree to all the {censored} and it sees my ipod! Everything is working absolutely perfectly!

 

 

Well it turns out the first error I had was actually Safari dying on this here website

 

As soon as the post had finished and the file uploaded Safari ended, I tried re-opening but then it died again on this forum when I went to view my post!

 

Solved that problem by installing Camino instead