A NUDGE please?

[commodianus]

Hi.

 

I'm just looking for a nudge in the right direction. I've spent a lot of hours trying to figure out the best way to go about installing OSX on a PC. I've tried IRC, Google, youtube, and besides the fact that people on IRC are oddly tight lipped, I've managed to at least come to the conclusion that distros are bad, they're warez, and to top it off, they cause problems.

 

So I need a nudge in the right direction. I have nawcom's mod cd, but absolutely no idea how to use it. Here's what I did.

 

1. Burned nawcom

2. Booted nawcom

3. Hit F5 to show the SL install disc

4. -v -x <enter> to boot

5. Bunch of stuff on the screen, pc reboots, never goes into setup.

 

So that didn't work. I then burned a .iso of chameleon.

 

1. Burned Chameleon

2. Booted Chameleon

3. Same restart thing, no chance to try anything else.

 

The target system is an AMD 3000+, 2GB of Ram, 7600 nvidia geforce. Pretty sure this is an sse2 machine, from what I understand, it's possible to do this now.

 

I have to say, I absolutely have no idea what to do or try next, and I haven't encountered much help. Can I get a nudge in the right direction? Please?

[Markrtoon]

The target system is an AMD 3000+, 2GB of Ram, 7600 nvidia geforce. Pretty sure this is an sse2 machine, from what I understand, it's possible to do this now.

 

Is this a custom rig?

[verdant]

Hi.

 

I'm just looking for a nudge in the right direction. I've spent a lot of hours trying to figure out the best way to go about installing OSX on a PC. I've tried IRC, Google, youtube, and besides the fact that people on IRC are oddly tight lipped, I've managed to at least come to the conclusion that distros are bad, they're warez, and to top it off, they cause problems.

 

So I need a nudge in the right direction. I have nawcom's mod cd, but absolutely no idea how to use it. Here's what I did.

 

1. Burned nawcom

2. Booted nawcom

3. Hit F5 to show the SL install disc

4. -v -x <enter> to boot

5. Bunch of stuff on the screen, pc reboots, never goes into setup.

 

So that didn't work. I then burned a .iso of chameleon.

 

1. Burned Chameleon

2. Booted Chameleon

3. Same restart thing, no chance to try anything else.

 

The target system is an AMD 3000+, 2GB of Ram, 7600 nvidia geforce. Pretty sure this is an sse2 machine, from what I understand, it's possible to do this now.

 

I have to say, I absolutely have no idea what to do or try next, and I haven't encountered much help. Can I get a nudge in the right direction? Please?

 

I recommend that with an older SSE2 CPU system, you initially install OS X Leopard using a AMD compatible Install DVD distro such as:

LawlessPPC-10.5.4-Phenom-AMD

iATKOS 4a AMD

Leo4Allv4.1 AMD

iPC 10.5.6

iDeneb V1.4 10.5.6 etc.

 

to set up two OS X volumes on your HDD and then install Leopard on one of the volumes to figure out exactly what you need to do boot and run OS X Leopard on your system......and then use Leopard to help you install OS X Snow Leopard on your second HDD volume...........also, see this AMD Retail Snow Leopard install guide............

[Markrtoon]

I recommend that with an older SSE2 CPU system, you initially install OS X Leopard using a AMD compatible Install DVD distro such as:

LawlessPPC-10.5.4-Phenom-AMD

iATKOS 4a AMD

Leo4Allv4.1 AMD

iPC 10.5.6

iDeneb V1.4 10.5.6 etc.

 

to set up two OS X volumes on your HDD and then install Leopard on one of the volumes to figure out exactly what you need to do boot and run OS X Leopard on your system......and then use Leopard to help you install OS X Snow Leopard on your second HDD volume...........also, see this AMD Retail Snow Leopard install guide............

 

 

I really admire how much you help people verdant, that one guy H****.. is always mean.

 

And yes, he's right, using something like that isn't probably your best bet, go with one of the patched distros, to get a quick wade in the water for installing.