Jamie94 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Hi guys Need a bit of help installing leopard on my gaming pc, My specs are: AMD Phenom X3 8550B 2.5GHz (supports SSE 1,2,3 and 4A) Gigabyte M68M-S2P chipset - NVIDIA GeForce 7025 Southbridge - nForce 630a 4GB DDR2 Supertalent memory PC2-6400 Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce GT240 512mb NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Realtek High Definition Audio ALC888b BIOS - Award Software International, Inc. F5, I have tried installing before using lawless and iATKOSv7 but ending up getting kernel panic or full installation but getting the reboot loop or waiting for root device. tried many flags such as cpus=1, maxmem=2048 etc Have successfully installed iATKOSv7 or a hp compaq dc7100 sff. Could someone tell me what distro i need and what settings and i need to select would be most grateful Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akylle Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 You have to search and search and search ^^ Search in the forum and use St Google.. A lot of tutorial use, maybe, a part of your hardware.. You can take a part from each of them, and try.. (i'm italian.. excuse me for my bad english) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinRoepke Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 The GT240 has been supported by the x86 community for a while. Following tonymacx86's guide to installing [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] + [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] should be helpful. As for the processor, AMD doesn't run natively with OS X. This is because there isn't a Mac with an AMD processor. But, there's guides to installing OS X with an AMD Processor. What you'll need: [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] burned to a disk 10.6.3 Boot disk (I'm not sure if I can name specifics on here, but a bit of 'googling' a major p2p filesharing website should help) A DSDT file for your motherboard (found at www.kexts.com) Whatever's needed for an AMD Processor (sorry, Intel guy here) [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] - found on tonymac86's website, along with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. You might also need tonymac86's NVIDIA update. I think it's only for 4xx cards, though. If that's not what you need, [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] should have an option for graphics acceleration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie94 Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 ahhh right, i got a lot of work to do then, 10.6 thats 6 gig do i need a dual layer or do they have a lite version with a load of stuff taken out or shall i just buy a retail of snow? also [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] is only intel isnt it? or have they updated now? I use p2p all the time so thats not a problem, the only problem is im low on money so it will be a pain getting dual layer disks, cheers for the info, appreciated alot. if anyone else has anything to add then that would be awesome too thank youuuu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 OSX86 is not a breeze in the park... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghep Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 OSX86 is not a breeze in the park... Amen to that. I've done about 3-4 installs on 2 different computers, each requiring hair pulling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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