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***This guide was copied from http://coolblog.profit42.com (which was edited and improved from the one of osx86scene.com) Thanks SnipinTerminator! for the great guide! Be sure to visit his other great guides on Hackintosh and other hacks. If you find this and any other of his guides very helpful consider donating to him :( ***

 

I’m not joking! It is possible to install leopard on your Windows computer! Just read the following guide…

 

DISCLAIMER: This guide is for information purposes only! We only say what’s possible. As you maybe already know, it is illegal to download OSX 10.5 Leopard and illegal to install OSX 10.5 Leopard on you Windows computer. If you are here for that purpose, leave this site now. If you want to use OSX, buy a Mac (I would recommend the iMac that has been released a few days ago, it’s fast and the design is just… well, let’s say it’s prettier than the girl you met yesterday). Do not post links or hints to illegal files in comments or on the forum (if you ignore this rule you’ll be awarded with a permanent ban) and do not mail us if you want to know where you can get illegal file called x or y, we won’t answer to those mails. This site (and the webmaster) is not liable for any of the actions taken by its visitors.

 

…carefully and you’ll be able to show off with Leopard in no time.

 

Well, I say no time, but that’s only true when you already downloaded all needed packages and stuff. You need to download about 10GB of data so make sure that you read the following paragraph before you start downloading the things mentioned in this guide.

 

If you are already running tiger on your Windows box there’s almost 99% chance that Leopard will work on your computer. never installed tiger before? If you want to install OSX (tiger or leopard) on your Intel or AMD computer, your computer processor needs to support at least SSE2. You can check this with a program called CPU-Z. Don’t even dare to try this stuff if CPU-Z only states SSE, it won’t work. If you got SSE3, you’re lucky because everything will go [synonym for extremely] fast.

 

So your CPU supports at least SSE2? Doublecheck it and read on.

 

“The developers” made a patch for Leopard build 9A466 and 9A499 to make it work on your PC. Because 9A499 is very unstable I’ll only discuss 9A466 in this guide, if you really want to use 9A499 I think you can find out things by yourself. This patch allows you to install Leopard, though it won’t install a Darwin bootloader. Because that little thingy is necessary you first need to install OSX Tiger on your hard disk, which comes with the Darwin bootloader. But that’s enough chitchat for now, from now on you won’t see bad grammar etc. but only direct steps:

 

I: Download and burn

 

1. Get a prepatched OSX Tiger install image (version doesn’t really matter). Don’t ask me where!

 

2. Burn the image to an empty DVD recordable (+R or –R, no rewritable dvd!)

 

3. Download OSX Leopard beta build 9A466. Don’t ask me where you can find it! and do not burn this file to a DVD yet, place it somewhere on your HD or external HD where you can’t lose it.

 

4. Download the Intel/AMD patch for the leopard beta DVD. Don’t ask me where you can find it!

 

II: The partitioning

 

5. I assume that you already got Vista installed. If not, install Vista.

 

6. You need to create at least 3 partitions, one or more partitions for Vista, one for Tiger and one for Leopard (In Vista I’ll recommend “Disk Management” for this job: Press the windows logo in the bottom left corner of you screen. Right click ‘computer’ and select ‘manage’. Select ‘Disk Management’ in the ‘Computer Management’ screen). It doesn’t matter if you format them NTFS or FAT32, we’ll change that later.

 

III: The Installation of Tiger

 

7. Insert the OSX install disk and reboot your computer, when the DVD is booted (an take up to 30 minutes!), select the right language and open Disk Utility. It’s somewhere in the bar at the top.

 

8. Select one of the two partitions that you dedicated to OSX and click format, format it to HFS+ (journaled). Do the same with the other partition.

 

9. Close Disk Utility. Follow the installation steps on your screen. Read everything carefully and select the right packages!

 

10. After finishing the installation, OSX should boot up. Play with it for a few moments and then proceed to the next step.

 

IV: Patching of the Leopard DVD

 

11. Copy the (unpatched) Leopard install disk and the patcher to a place where you can find it, on an HFS+ formatted partition.

 

12. Open the patcherfolder and then the 9A466 folder. In this folder, you’ll see a folder called “amd-intel-sse2 patcher”. Rename that folder to “amd-intel-sse2″ and open it.

 

13. Open patch-it.sh with a text editor (should open with textedit by default). You need to edit line 4 (DMG=”/Users/user/9A466.dmg”) in a way that it points to the Leopard image that you downloaded (DMG=”/path/to/your/image/nameoftheimage.dmg”).

 

14. Save and close the file. Open up an terminal window (/applications/utilities/terminal) and cd to the directory containing patch-it.sh (’cd /patcher/9A466/amd-intel-sse2/’ will open up /patcher/9A466/amd-intel-sse2/)

 

15. Type ’sudo -s’ and type in your password (if you have no password, just hit enter).

 

16. Type in ‘./patch-it.sh’ and let the patcher do it’s work!

 

17. When the patcher did it’s work, find out if you have an AMD or Intel processor, read the next step if you have an AMD processor. If you have an Intel processor, skip to step 19.

 

18. Because I don’t have an AMD computer I took this information from Ramm’s guide on osx86scene.com (thanks Ramm!). You need to mount (doubleclick) the image that you just create with the patcher (it’s in the ‘amd-intel-sse2′ folder) and open a new terminal window and cd to the directory with the AMD patches (cd /patches/9A466/”AMD_MaxxussPatcher_cpuid_and_decryps Folder”/).

 

19. Do the sudo -s command again and type in:

 

./decrypt.sh

patcher leo_cpuid.txt

patcher leo_dvd.txt

 

V: Editing the image

 

20. You could now just burn the image, though if you know that there are certain kexts that you have to use from tiger or from anyone else, you can replace them now (well, read the following steps and I’ll explain how).

 

21. Open a terminal window and type in

 

sudo hdiutil attach -readwrite /path/to/patches/9A466/amd-intel-sse2/BurnThisImage.iso -owners on

 

22. Your patched image is now mounted and you’ll be able to change files on it, just open finder and browse to <BurnThisImage.iso>/System/Library/Extensions and add, remove or change kexts.

 

23. Go to <BurnThisImage.iso>/System/Library/LaunchDaemons and if you see a file called OSSMGR.plist, remove it.

 

24. Open a terminal window and type in

 

cd /Volumes/”Mac OS X Install Disc x86“/System/Library/Extensions && sudo chmod -R 755 * && sudo chown -R root:wheel * (this is one line of code!)

 

VI: Burning the patched Leopard image

 

25. Insert a blank DVD recordable and choose to open Disk utility in the window that pops up.

 

26. Select the Leopard image and hit burn.

 

27. When burning is finished, put the DVD in a jewel case or something and go on with the next step. do not install leopard before you read the steps below

 

VII: Preparing the Post Installation Patch

 

28. Make sure that the partition you dedicated to Leopard is now empty or hasn’t any important files on it

 

29. Place the patcher on your tiger partition and do not remove it yet.

 

30. Insert the Leopard DVD and restart your computer.

 

VIII: Installing Leopard

 

31. When the DVD is booted, follow all installation steps on your screen. Install Leopard to the empty Leopard partition.

 

32. Remove the DVD and reboot when the installation is finished. In the Darwin bootloader, do not select the Leopard partition but the Tiger partition and boot Tiger.

 

IX: Make Leopard working

 

33. When Tiger is booted, create a folder called leopatch on you Tiger hd.

 

34. Browse to the folder with the original 9A466 patch andopen up /files/, you’ll see a file called mach_kernel, place this in the root of the leopatch folder.

 

35. You’ll also see a folder called /extensions/, place the contents of this folder in a folder called /ext/ in the leopatch folder.

 

36. Open up a new terminal window.

 

37. In the next steps I’m going to assume that your Leopard partition is called LEO and that your Tiger partition is called TIGER. If this isn’t the case, cd to /volumes/ and type ls to find out how your Leopard or Tiger partition is called.

 

38Type the following commands in the terminal window (all italic words can vary depending on your installation, use common sense and change them according to your folder structure):

 

cd /volumes/LEO/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ && rm -rf ossmgr.plist

cd /volumes/TIGER/leopatch/

 

39. Open up another terminal window (do not close the first one!) and type in

 

cd /Volumes/LEO/

rm -rf mach_kernel

 

40. In the first terminal window, type in

 

cp -R mach_kernel /Volumes/LeoHD/

cd ext

 

41. Go to the second window again and type in ls. This should return the contents of the root folder including mach_kernel, if you don’t see this file you did something terribly wrong…

 

42. In the second window, type in

 

cd System/Library/Extensions

rm -rf AppleACPIPlatform.kext

rm -rf AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext

rm -rf ApplePS2Controller.kext

rm -rf AppleSMBIOS.kext

rm -rf Natit.kext

 

43. In the first window, type in

 

cp -R AppleACPIPlatform.kext /Volumes/LeoHD/System/Library/Extensions

cp -R AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext /Volumes/LeoHD/System/Library/Extensions

cp -R ApplePS2Controller.kext /Volumes/LeoHD/System/Library/Extensions

cp -R AppleSMBIOS.kext /Volumes/LeoHD/System/Library/Extensions

cp -R Natit.kext /Volumes/LeoHD/System/Library/Extensions

 

44. Close this window and go to the second window. Type in

 

cd /Volumes/Leo/ && sudo chmod -R 755 * && sudo chown -R root:wheel *

cd /Volumes/Leo/System/Library/Extensions/ && sudo chmod -R 755 * && sudo chown -R root:wheel *

reboot

 

X: The finale

 

45. Close the second window. Reboot your computer, select the Leopard partition in the Darwin boot manager and pray….

 

46. If you still can’t boot Leopard, try to overwrite IOATAFamily.kext from leopard with the one you have from Tiger.

 

47. Still got problems? Head over to our forums and ask your question! To make things easier, please provide all information that you can give when asking a question (computer specifications, screenshot or photo of the error, previous Tiger installs worked (yes/no) etc.)

 

XI: Credits

 

I would like to thank Maxxuss, Semthex, JaS, Netkas, Ramm, all other developers, Apple, Google, the community, osx86scene, insanelymac.com and my hosting provider. Without you the world of a PC user was a lot less spectacular.

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I didn't copy it from osx86scene! I used the guides on osx86scene and my knowledge about tiger, partitioning etc. to create this guide. I used their stuff, changed parts of their stuff and added my stuff,, that's not copying, that's called improving "open source" stuff.

 

Naw... he wasn't coping, he was improving... :(

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First I thank for the guide ,second a question:few times ago "we" (the community)were all agree about that " don't share anything about Leopardish before officially deliver of it do make sense (...'cause the apple developers could make something against it)..now ,I guess, something get different..right??! ;)

 

Last, could u post the HW where it is running, I mean the minum is the same as Tiger (Intel,Amd,Vcard..etc)?

Thanks.

SnipinTerminator
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hey, I don't have any problems that you guys post my guide here, but at least place a link to it above the guide!!!

 

Just post something like: "warning: This is a copy from an article on profit42.com"

 

The more people can read it the better, so you don't have to delete it, though please place that link...

 

ow, and I didn't copy it from osx86scene! I used the guides on osx86scene and my knowledge about tiger, partitioning etc. to create this guide. I used their stuff and added my stuff, that's not copying, that's called improving "open source" stuff...

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step 19 is wrong , you arent supposed to use decryps.sh untill after you have installed , not to patch your dvd. i would be wary about what else could be wrong in that "guide" , no offense...

 

step 19 is fixed now (on my website, not in the post on this forum), never looked at the AMD part and since Ramm made a mistake in his guide I made the same mistake in my guide. Though stuffs cleared up now and the guide's getting better (Intel part is 100% working, AMD still unconfirmed)!

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Installed following the guide after replacing the IOATA.kext booted fine. But I have some issues withe the mouse drag&drop not working. I tried several times to repaire permitions from my TIGER and even played with the PS2.kext without success, even the Terminal crash and there is no NetInfo manager in the Prefs to enable the root access. Does any one else have the issues?

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HI,

I tryed this but the image patching part did not work i got errors. My 9A499 image is good because i installed it on my macbook successfully. So maybe my patches are wrong...

Also is that normal that the modified image is about 4,5Gigas? I mounted it in the finder and the image was ok, i tried to burn it anyway but nothing happened, only spinnig wheel...

Did someone had the same issues while paching?

Btw when you say: skip to step 19 if you have an intel processor and

19. Do the sudo -s command again and type in:

 

./decrypt.sh

patcher leo_cpuid.txt

patcher leo_dvd.txt

 

i type ./decrypt.sh ant it says command not found (if my memory is good) should i cd in the amd folder even if i own a core2duo?

Oh maybe the 3 lines are only one command... i'll try it home...

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Installed following the guide after replacing the IOATA.kext booted fine. But I have some issues withe the mouse drag&drop not working. I tried several times to repaire permitions from my TIGER and even played with the PS2.kext without success, even the Terminal crash and there is no NetInfo manager in the Prefs to enable the root access. Does any one else have the issues?

 

Im getting the same problem...anyone found the solution for this? Running Dell M1210 Intel Core 2 duo 2GHz, Nvidia 7400, Dell 1390 wireless

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Hi !

 

I don't if some of you used this procedure but ...

 

At step 44. DO NOT apply this line : cd /Volumes/Leo/ && sudo chmod -R 755 * && sudo chown -R root:wheel *

 

It would make all the files "read only" to any other user than root or wheel and many applications would be unavailable to "normal" users.

 

If you apply this you will have to rebuild the whole thing from scratch.

 

Goog luck !

FavleX
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How is Leopard's hardware support? Are things like 512MB video cards and Intel 3945abg wireless cards finally supported?

 

Absolutely not , the drivers which did'nt work in relase 10.4.x are not supported as well in Leo. :censored2:

I mean the wifi stuff.

SnipinTerminator
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Hi I followed the leopard installation guide from profit 42 blog .It wasnt mentioned there that ossmgr.sys has to be removed.Can it be done after installation and before post patching.Please help.

 

step 37:

 

37. Type the following commands in the terminal window (all italic words can vary depending on your installation, use common sense and change them according to your folder structure):

 

cd /volumes/LEO/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ && rm -rf ossmgr.plist

cd /volumes/TIGER/leopatch/

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I just followed the instructions but when I boot the install disc with the -v I eventually got waiting on root device I then replaced the ioata kext with that from 10.4.9 and it didn't post this message but only booted to the part just before that message what could i have done wrong :)

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