ronikondo Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 i managed to burn a iso dvd. i set my laptop to a cd booting. i pushed f8 and "enter" on "darwin86" . it than started installation . i saw an apple image, bot it got stuck like this for an hour till i shut my computer down. than i also tried to hit v and than enter. it started some process and stoped somewhere. what shoul i do next ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skredii Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Boot in verbose mode (-v) and print here what you got on screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronikondo Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 i dont know how to print the screen without XP, but it got to aline where it said "waiting for a root source" does it mean anything ? please advise me what to do next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronikondo Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 z- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Put your hard drive and dvd drive on the same cable. Set the hard drive to master and the DVD drive to slave using jumpers, not cable select. If you are on a laptop, then you probably can't do this, so you need to install via VMWare to your hard drive partition. Once you install OSX via VMWare, you do not need VMWare to run OSX: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=11314 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronikondo Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 in your opinion - this file soult fit my laptop ? in your opinion - this file sould fit my laptop ? in your opinion - this file ( mac vmware image 1.28gb ) sould fit my laptop ? and i should create a iso dvd with extracting one of the subfolders in the file and that it? than booting and installing from it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronikondo Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 in your opinion - this file ( mac vmware image 1.28gb ) sould fit my laptop ? and i should create a iso dvd with extracting one of the subfolders in the file and that it? than booting and installing from it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Install VMWare in Windows. Run VMWare. Put the OSX install DVD into the drive. Follow the instructions of the guide I pointed out and you should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronikondo Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 these are the files after extraction. i don't know what to do next. please advise me. i understood nothing from the guide i've been directed to. thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 That picture is for a really old version of OSX that only installs through VMWare. You need to go to the VMWare website and download the VMWare installer and install that in Windows. Run VMWare in Windows. Insert the OSX DVD you created into the DVD drive. Follow the instructions for setting up VMWare and installing it to the hard drive partition per the guide I pointed to above. Look, installing OSX on a PC is not easy and requires a lot of tinkering. You must be very familiar with a PC and how it operates. You are probably going to end up editing some files using the command line in Unix. So far, you've had a lot of trouble following most of what is going on. Downloading an image, joining RAR's, expanding a RAR file, burning the resulting ISO to a DVD, downloading and setting up VMWare have all baffled you so far. It might be time to step back and consider putting this project on the shelf for a while until you gain more experience in these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronikondo Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 this vmware is not for free... and i'm not shoore that i can manage with it. any other suggestions ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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