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[Poll] Have you installed Leopard OSx86 yet?

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Have you installed Leopard OSx86 yet?  

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  1. 1. Have you installed Leopard OSx86 yet?

    • Yes, I am running Leopard OSx86.
      177
    • No, I am still running Tiger OSx86
      154

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DaMoGan
DaMoGan
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Well, I'm going to stick with 10.4.10 for now, and that goes for both my G4 PowerBook, as well as my Thinkpad T60p Hackintosh. I just got Tiger working on the Thinkpad, and I don't really see any features that I need right now from Leopard. (I even have legal access to Leopard via work for my PowerBook, but I'm still holding out.)

 

I'm sure at some point in the near future I'll check it out on the PowerBook. By then, things will have shaken out on the Hackintosh scene as well, no doubt. :-)

My Cart
My Cart
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I spent three days and the only one I was actually able to get to install was JaS. The problem I ran into was now that I am finally running a stable version of 10.4.8 I can't use my iPhone as it needs 10.4.10. I would like to install ToH as an upgrade, but I couldn't get it to boot. What happens if I upgrade via Apple Software update? Of course forgive my noob-ness, I am a long time lurker, and first time poster

Doug the Impaler
Doug the Impaler
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Leopard on my machine (Pentium E2140@3GHz, P5B-Plus, GeForce 7600GS) was a wonderful experience, especially compared to Tiger. The only hardware not recognized was an Attansic onboard LAN, which I've since disabled because I installed a Linksys LNE100TX v5 using the tulip kext.

 

Tiger gave me fits on this machine. The flat install of Leopard was an absolute dream. This is making my wait until I have the cash rangled up for my 2.4GHz 20" iMac bearable.

warandpeace
warandpeace
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Running Leopard (Flat Image install) of 1.5ghz Core 2 Duo, 2gb ram, Intel X3100 Graphics...

 

Runs like a champ. The only things I don't have working are audio and wireless, however I'm using my Verizon Wireless aircard for internet as it has drivers for Leopard. :D

 

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My Cart
My Cart
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I chanced an upgrade and wow I am amazed that it worked! I am typing this replay on my HP dv6226us that is running Leopard, I used the ToH install ISO, worked well. I am actually really happy. I messed up my notebook's restore partition and can't go back to Vista, had to order the recovery disks, but I might end up just leaving it go and running Leopard

iceman_ice
iceman_ice
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I installed leopard a couple of days ago on my Hackintosh. I at first tried to upgrade my 10.4.10 install, but that resulted in a common issue that even REAL mac owners were facing.. it would boot to a blue screen with the cursor and just stop. So I decided to try a CLEAN install. I used the ToH image.

 

The first boot I got a kernel panic... rebooted with -v -x option and this got me to the desktop! I had no video, sound, or network. However, I was able to use nVinject to get full Video acceleration on my 7600GT (QE, CI, Resolution switching etc), the Azalia Audio driver patch, and manually edited Yukon2.kext with my onboard lan dev ID to get that working. Took me maybe 15 mins.

 

It was definitely a LOT easier than when I installed 10.4.8 back in the day... and it seems to have MUCH better native hardware support for PC components. Everything works like a charm for me.

 

I'm running a Core 2 Duo 6400 @ 3.0 Ghz, DDR 800, Gigabyte DS3, SATA Seagate drive, SATA LG Burner - everything gets recognized perfectly and is rock solid. I'm re-installing my apps now one by one on Leopard. Apparently the blue screen boot is the result of some application incompatibility, but none of the suggested fixes worked. I think it may have had something to do with drivers I installed for my Logitech USB keyboard and Mouse. Either way, it's quite nice! Right now I have Quad Boot 10.4.10, 10.5, Vista x64, and XP Pro.

budman
budman
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Still cant get much happening, tiger was pretty well crippled on my laptop (nx9420 w/ quadro nvs 510m graphics), though i haven't tried for a while. ToH did not work for me, maybe the upcoming iATKOS will be magical and get me to a point where I can hack around for decent HW compatibility. Since this is my main PC I get afford a lot of down time.

macvault
macvault
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I'm trying to install Leopard x86 (BrazilMac) on a Dell GX620 but booting from the DVD won't get any further than the grey screen with grey Apple logo and the spinning icon. When I boot with Diagnostic messages turned on (-v) it seems to always stop at something like boot: disk1s3, major 14, minor 12 (not exact - i'm typing from memory).

 

Does anyone know why this would be? What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Amuraivel
Amuraivel
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Leopard runs even better than Tiger with EFI, especially 10.5.1; worth the risk. Unlike the Apple's community , which offers some backwards compatability, I think that leopard will leave the other versions unsupported in the next month because the leaders of the Hackintosh movement have already migrated. EFI support makes the whole thing simpler for many.

shoarthing
shoarthing
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. . this (purest OSX86 install I've used) is to an HDD prepped with v5.1 of the PC_EFI bootloader, from the full image of the retail DVD, using Pacifist [from a Tiger install on another HDD].

 

Ran the 10.5.1 update [also using Pacifist from the Tiger install] before replacing/removing/adding the very few kexts needed to get full function . . . then first boot was to the: . . like, Cosmic, man . . experience of the full Leo intro in full stereo @ 1920x1200 . . .

 

Immense credit to netkas & the unsung Darwin dev heroes - PC_EFI is a totally new ballgame.

  • 2 months later...
edmoncu
edmoncu
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After a long absence, finally got Leopard working on my new system.

Works flawlessly, for the most part, with the exception of working SATA support, so DVD burning is also out of the question (panic). I haven't noticed anything yet, other than possible issues with the way my nForce kext is accessing my PATA drive. Other than that, really enjoying it. :blink:

 

2.4GHZ Intel QuadCore Q6600

Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus

4Gig 800MHZ RAM

BGF nVidia 8800GTS 320Mb's + Full QE/CI

Linksys 10/100TX NIC

320GB SATA HDD

120GB PATA HDD

 

So yeah, if you can get together some hardware that more or less supports it (ie, most Tiger-supported stuff), then you people shouldn't have too many issues with it.

can you provide us with a guide on how were you able to install leopard?

it would be very helpful if you can also include the leopard build (as well as the individual packages) you used to install OSX.

 

thank you!

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