jrrjrr Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Hey kinkadius! you should try the trick with Freedos, which has been given in this topic: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...pic=6700&st=100Let me "split" the sentence so you can read: 1- make partitions on your imac's harddrive (one HFS+ and one FAT32) 2- install MacOS on the HFS+ partition 3- install FreeDOS on the second partition (don't know how!) 4- boot FreeDOS 5- insert WinXP disc and browse to i386 directory: launch installer (setup?) 6- after first stage, the computer reboots into MacOS 7- use the startup preferences to choose the FAT32 partition as boot disk 8- the install should go on with second stage then it should work... THIS IS ONLY A "TRANSLATION" of the sentence above, i haven't tested it! I read it that you need 3 partitions in all - the original one with OSX, a new one for FreeDOS, and a second new one to have a partition to install XP onto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stecchino Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 geez, where is the subscribe to thread on this forum? I have to actually post something to get notification Seriously, I can't find "subscribe to this thread" or "track this topic" anywhere. I'm very interested to see how this turns out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 I read it that you need 3 partitions in all - the original one with OSX, a new one for FreeDOS, and a second new one to have a partition to install XP onto. GRUB supports EFI, if youre going to make 3 partitions, you should install Linux on one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 I've almost got Airport with my PCMCIA WPC54G. It loaded AppleAirPort_MM, saw the mac and I've rebooted like a fool. Not seeing it since then (using IO80211Family from 10.4.4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scousi Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 We have the dont_steal_mac_os kext! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeP Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 I read it that you need 3 partitions in all - the original one with OSX, a new one for FreeDOS, and a second new one to have a partition to install XP onto. yes, indeed! actually it seems that you need to CLONE a FreeDOS image onto a partition, and you need a third partition to install onto. FreeDOS does not need much space, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) I've almost got Airport with my PCMCIA WPC54G. It loaded AppleAirPort_MM, saw the mac and I've rebooted like a fool. Not seeing it since then (using IO80211Family from 10.4.4) So 10.4.4 drivers can work in 10.4.3??? No ABI problems? Kick Ass... Edited January 16, 2006 by bofors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 SUCCESS: Airport is working like a charm. My WPC54G card is put to good use now. Have signal meter in menu area FAILURE: ATINDRV is not loading because is looking for ATY,Wormy driver (which we don't have, of course. Maybe this is the codename for X1600 used in iMacs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjtd Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) SigXCPU, what is your card specifically? Sad thing about ATI Did you tried to copy all the ATI kexts, delete the cache and then reboot? Edited January 16, 2006 by rjtd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christophsky Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 sigxcpu, what version is your WPC54G? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stecchino Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 SUCCESS: Airport is working like a charm. My WPC54G card is put to good use now. Have signal meter in menu area FAILURE: ATINDRV is not loading because is looking for ATY,Wormy driver (which we don't have, of course. Maybe this is the codename for X1600 used in iMacs) Just wondering....shouldn't think kind of stuff be posted in separate thread? The OP is primarily about installing XP on the new Intel iMac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 it's 1.2 i think (i've opened it, now looks like {censored} because you cannot put it back again once opened ) anyway, it's device id is pci14e4,4320. was defined in 8f1099 build, but no luck loading it. now, with 10.4.4 extension works like a charm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) FAILURE: ATINDRV is not loading because is looking for ATY,Wormy driver (which we don't have, of course. Maybe this is the codename for X1600 used in iMacs) Hmm.. this sounds bad and perhaps DRM'd, I think "wormy" may be another Apple game. As in a rotten Apple, not just a codename. Edited January 16, 2006 by bofors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Just wondering....shouldn't think kind of stuff be posted in separate thread? The OP is primarily about installing XP on the new Intel iMac. Agree, we dont want to dilute the original thread. I'll have another mirror in about 10 min. posted on the other thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blinksilver Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Just wondering....shouldn't think kind of stuff be posted in separate thread? The OP is primarily about installing XP on the new Intel iMac. I see this as more of an experimental thread, see what we can do with the stuff from 10.4.4 and the new imacs. Buts thats just me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) Agree, we dont want to dilute the original thread. I'll have another mirror in about 10 min. posted on the other thread. EDIT: What other thread? Then perhaps people here would like to designate seperate threads for further discusion of: (1) ATI drivers (this is what I am primarily interested in) (2) Wireless drivers (3) Booting Windows Edited January 16, 2006 by bofors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest terry Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Then perhaps people here would like to designate seperate threads for further discusion of: (1) ATI drivers (this is what I am primarily interested in) (2) Wireless drivers (3) Booting Windows Yes, please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjtd Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Extensions.zip: another mirror [Violation of DMCA] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moemar26 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 What type of wireless card does the Imac include? Could you extract the wireless (IO and otherwise) kexts and post them? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Yes, just make sure to state that the drivers are experimental. we dont want others to get the wrong assumtion. also, please give a breif direction on how to add, chown, and chmod the files. i'm interested in 1, 2 and also ATSServer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjtd Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 We can discuss ATI in http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=6969 OSX86 Dave, can you reboot your PC and see if you can change the resolution on display properties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wkwk Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Can we get back on topic of this thread regarding booting windows on the new imac? BTW congrats on the ATINDRV kext. I guess there must be nothing new to report regarding booting windows... FYI from the `bless` manpage: --file file Instead of allowing the firmware to discover the booter based on the blessed directory or file, pass an explicit path to the firmware to boot from. This can be used to run EFI applications or EFI booters for alternate OSes, but should not be normally used. This is only supported on EFI- based systems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 (edited) Just a quick note. Someone posted( http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...=80entry43184 ) about MCE2005 and the EFI directory. They are wrong...they must have installed a Vista Beta on their system and didn't mention it to us. At least this is what a friend said. I can verify when I get home in an hour though. Nope, I don't have that folder on my MCE2005 install, nor is it on the boot CD. BTW, keep this on the OP's topic. I'm getting tired of being ignored. Please do your own threads on other items, there are too many posts for me to go prune them myself, so I'll just delete them soon. Edited January 16, 2006 by cyrana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wkwk Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Nope, I don't have that folder on my MCE2005 install, nor is it on the boot CD. So I really don't see how we can boot MCE2005 from an EFI system without BIOS compatibility. Only Vista has an EFI directory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myzar Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 This is offtopic but i don't want to start another thread KINKADIUS thx for the kexts they work with 10.4.3 can you pls post on rapidshare the kernel , rosetta and atserver too . That would be very helpfull thx Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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