desolator19 Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 hi guys do you think mac would work would this machine: CPU intel P4 2.8Ghz 512 RAM Phoenix V 6.00 PG Motherboard Video: NVDIA Ge Force MX4000 128 MB HDD: IDE 80Gigs Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24490-how-to-detailed-guide-to-installing-mac-os-x-x86/page/4/#findComment-386488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyMiller Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Hey guys, wanted to let you all know that this walk thru was the best i have ever had, aside from just a few boot config problems i was able to make it work with little hand holding, infact it was so easy, Mac OS X felt like it was built for it..lol..here is my system AMD 64bit 2ghtz 1gig of DDR ram, only.lol 128meg nvida buit-in video stealing 128megs from the system 40g maxtor with WinXP pro SP2 as the main OS 40g something-or-other that i installed Mac on Logitec wireless keyboard with PS2 wireless mouse, (yea, i know right) its crazy but everything works great! it flys! faster than windows, (well duh right) im goign to try and get a video of the install of leopard on it tonight.hehe...and how fast the boot switching is..its CRAZY! thanks for all the walk thru questions. EDIT: also built in either net works great, EVERYTHING works....USB ports, all other hard drives and cd and DVD roms..infact i might just become a swticher and just have an afair wtih my Windows OS...lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24490-how-to-detailed-guide-to-installing-mac-os-x-x86/page/4/#findComment-482600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizer Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 HI! First of all thanks for the guide. Now to my problem. I did everything just like you said, but when I try to boot from the DVD I get this: System config file '/com.apple.Boot.plist' not found. I have a good DVD from Jas. My computer specifications are: -Asus EN8600GTS silent/HTDP 265MB PCle -Intel dual core E6750 -2G of ddr2 ram -Asus P5KC motherboard -hard disk SATA II 500G Please help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24490-how-to-detailed-guide-to-installing-mac-os-x-x86/page/4/#findComment-486172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyMiller Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 I got that too with a couple diffrent ISO's but i found one that worked...so it could be the version of DVD you got...does it give you an option to do an f8? if it does, use f8 and then boot with -f this will by pass that so you can boot into the cd install... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24490-how-to-detailed-guide-to-installing-mac-os-x-x86/page/4/#findComment-491069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guaterickie Posted November 10, 2007 Share Posted November 10, 2007 Hey man i have a question: -The installation was flawless i was able to install without a problem but after restarting vmware and choosing to boot from the disk the screen just stays dark and nothing happens. I was wondering if your guide makes it so that you can boot to os x when starting the actual computer or if its just booting from vmware in which case something is wrong. thanks for the help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24490-how-to-detailed-guide-to-installing-mac-os-x-x86/page/4/#findComment-501470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyMiller Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Look closely at the end of the guide, it explains how to add the dual boot option the the XP boot.ini file. Ive done it an it works great...if the install went well, then just change the boot.ini accordingly and ad the chain0 file to the C:\ drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24490-how-to-detailed-guide-to-installing-mac-os-x-x86/page/4/#findComment-506739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket1054 Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 Hi Experts, Hi Enjoyed following this guide and learned a little on the way too... But i still have problems though. I wanna run the "JaS Mac OS X 10.4.8" on my pc via VMware and i don't know what i'm doing wrong? I have a Dell Latitude D810 running Windows XP with the newest version of VMware I Couldn't follow the instruction 100% "Preparing the Hard Drive for OS X" as i'm using a USB External Hard drive I'm running out of diskspace on my laptop so i use my external hard drive to mount the ISO file on one partition where i got a bunch of other stuff and then on a second partition on the external hard drive i made a 16 GB paritition for MAC installation. So when i start up my Virtual Machine it boots up and i see the Blue Setup screen. I choose language and when i click next after 10 seconds i get this error: Because of a problem, installing Mac OS X Could not be completed The error log is huge and doesn't really make much sense I have followed all the steps i don't get why its not working... please help Hello Daniel, I see your post is quite old (year and a half ago). I am wondering if you are still running the Dell D810 with the MAC OS 10.4.8, better yet, were you able to get it running? I installed the JaS 10.4.6 and through various readings was able to get my integrated nic, sound, video, battery indicator all working. I am in the beginning stages and wonder if you were able to get the updates to work. Should I run the Apple update? It seems that I tried that earlier and it crashed my pc. Regards, ROCKET1054 Dell Lattitude D810 1.8 GHz SSE2 1.25 GB Ram 165 GB HDD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24490-how-to-detailed-guide-to-installing-mac-os-x-x86/page/4/#findComment-853882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
swaps Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 i have a acer aspire 3002 laptop. (amd sempron 2800+, 756 mb ram, 40 gb hdd). tried installing max os x ( iAtkos_2.0i_BS_Release , Kalyway_10.5.2_DVD_Intel_Amd, VMware OS X 10.4.7) however none seems to have worked. i am trying through vmware as i dont have access toa dvd burner. with the iAktos image, i get this erroe when i go to verbose mode. kernel version: darwin kernel version 9..10: sat nov 17 02:56:34 sct 207' made by ToH"xnu-128.0.2~1/build/obj/release_i386 the comp remains stuck there and nothing more seems to be happening. can u pls help. thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24490-how-to-detailed-guide-to-installing-mac-os-x-x86/page/4/#findComment-864700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairlyodd Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Great job on the tutorial. I was finally able to load OS X , but not using seperate hard drive. For some reason VMWare will not recognize my drives no matter how they are configured. Something about permissions and such rubbish. I set admin permissions in Vista and XP to allow full access to both drives, but still no access using a clean partition; however I was successful in installing the OS with VMWare on my main drive creating a virtual partition. Now the only problem is I need to know if I can use my existing internet connection by sharing it with VMWare? The reason I ask is because my onboard NIC is not supported, thus rendering Safari useless. Thanks, Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24490-how-to-detailed-guide-to-installing-mac-os-x-x86/page/4/#findComment-1175868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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