StanleyS Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Looking at this thread, there's a list of working ISOs that people have successfuly used to install Mac on their PCs. What I don't understand is why is there so many of them? How do they vary? And lastly, which one should I go for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Well, the differences between, 10.4.5 and 10.4.6 and 10.4.7 and 10.4.8 should be obvious. Otherwise, it boiled down to different people having different ideas on how things should be done. Some liked a certain few patches that they thought would be beneficial, so they made the iso with those patches so people could install them rather than have to patch later. Also, JaS tended to be more Intel oriented and Myzar more AMD oriented, but both produced iso's that worked on both platforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanleyS Posted November 28, 2006 Author Share Posted November 28, 2006 Otherwise, it boiled down to different people having different ideas on how things should be done. Some liked a certain few patches that they thought would be beneficial, so they made the iso with those patches so people could install them rather than have to patch later. Are you referring to the inclusion of specific drivers, software, or something different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Drivers or patches to drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanleyS Posted November 28, 2006 Author Share Posted November 28, 2006 cool cool. guess I'll research it a bit to see which ISO is best. thanks rammjet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nordicpower Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Do I have to stick to the initial publisher the whole version history? (e.g. once jas, always jas?) Or would it be possible to install Myzar-10.4.6, then update to 10.4.7 (or even 10.4.8) with JAS's update? Regards, nordicpower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 would it be possible to install Myzar-10.4.6, then update to 10.4.7 (or even 10.4.8) with JAS's update? Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macintoshy Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Hi, last Jas DVD 10.4.8 does not install Darwin boot loader correct :-(. When I install Jas 104.6 my hd ist able to boot when is set as an active partition. When I try to use 10.4.8 DVD, it is impossibel to boot any active installed 10.4.8 partition. Does anybody know why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Hi, last Jas DVD 10.4.8 does not install Darwin boot loader correct :-(. When I install Jas 104.6 my hd ist able to boot when is set as an active partition. When I try to use 10.4.8 DVD, it is impossibel to boot any active installed 10.4.8 partition. Does anybody know why? Use your 10.4.6 DVD to erase partition in Disk Utility. Then boot the 10.4.8 DVD and finish the installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macintoshy Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Thanx Ramjet for this tip. Is it also possibe to boot up from a 10.4.6 partition and to use diskutilty from hd to format the 10.4.8 destination drive instead of booting a awfull slow Jas 10.4.6 dvd? What is the difference if I format with 10.4.6 diskutility? When I formated my destination partition with DVD or HD 104.6 diskutility, is it possible to restore any 10.4.8.dmg image? Will the restored partition boot or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Is it also possibe to boot up from a 10.4.6 partition and to use diskutilty from hd to format the 10.4.8 destination drive. Yes, that is possible When I formated my destination partition with DVD or HD 104.6 diskutility, is it possible to restore any 10.4.8.dmg image? Will the restored partition boot or not? It all boils down to how much space you have. If you have enough room on your 10.4.6 partition, you can create a disk image that is big enough to hold the data from your 10.4.8 installation. Boot your 10.4.6 partition. Click on both your 10.4.6 partition icon and the 10.4.8 partition icon. If the "used" space for 10.4.8 is smaller than the "free" space for 10.4.6, then it is possible. Or if you have an external hard drive. If it is over 4 GB, you can't use a FAT32 partition because that is the limit to filesize for FAT32. And OSX cannot write to NTFS. If you have room, use Disk Utility in 10.4.6 to create a new disk image file large enough to hold 10.4.8 data. Then use the Disk Utility Restore function. Drag your 10.4.8 icon to Source and drag the disk image icon to destination. Then use Disk Utility in 10.4.6 to erase the 10.4.8 partition and use the Restore function in reverse: disk image to Source and 10.4.8 icon to Destination. Set your 10.4.8 partition active. And maybe edit the 10.4.8 boot.plist to add the Timeout parameter to show the boot menu. Then you should be ready to reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macintoshy Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Hi Ramjet, it did work fine. Thank you for your support. I solved the boot problem and the unbootable osX 10.4.8 partition this way: 1.Started Disk Utility to save my unbootable 10.4.8 Partion and did not care how and what boot sector was on it. 2. Bootet in 10.4.6 from HD and repartitioned my 10.4.8 drive to the same size before and erased the partition again (was not necessary). 3. Restored with Disk Utility the unbootable 10.4.8.dmg And now darwin boot loader works to boot the restored 10.4.8 partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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