help please! new to osx 86

[sodoff]

hello everybody. the idea of having osx on pc is really cool and i'd like to know everything about it. i'm dl/ing it now and i have lots of questions to ask.

1. i was thinking of getting a new sata hd to install osx 86 on (this way i can dual boot by changing the boot sequence in bios) right???

2. can osx86 recognise and be installed on sata hd? or do i need to patch it or something???

 

my motherboard is an Abit KV8 pro, and according to the compatibility description:

 

Same as 10.4.4 and 10.4.5:No Gigabit LAN. AC97 Audio (Onboard), SATA support with AppleVIAATA.kext. Works great have to use a few kexts from older ver of 10.4.3. IOUSBFamily.kext, IOATAFamily.kext, IOPCIFamily.kext

 

wat are all the .kexts? are they patches?where do i get them? do i need them?

Btw i am getting 10.4.6(jas) does this already have sata patched?

 

sooo...could some kind souls please answer all my questions and more..

any help would be greatly appreciated

[dtm3dd]

Right...

Firstly try not to give your topics a similar title to "HELP!!", but try, instead to give us some preliminary detail about your problem (this is just a minor piece of etiquete.

 

1. SATA isnt incredibly well supported in OS X 86 at the mo. There are ways to change the way it works in the BIOS (thats what I do), and there are patches etc. but if you are new to OSX86 and don't want to do any hacking then your best bet is just to avoid SATA.

 

2. a .kext is a "Kernel Extension" the way they are used most frequently is to store drivers etc. - so just think of them as that for now - drivers.

You will see members produce their own .kext which will allow you to use a certain piece of hardware in OSX86 for example.

Of course they can be used for other things but that is for another time .