Recommend the best install method for this hardware pls?

[loop]

Background -

I'm not a moron.

A bit of searching has left me fairly clouded, however. There's a LOT of information and at least a few discreet ways to get osx installed on the hackintosh-styles of systems, and I'm a bit confused as to what my best route would be.

 

This is my hardware:

Intel q6600

Gigabyte ga-p35-ds4

4 gigs ddr2

geforce 8800gt

1x750gb wd (Vista64)

1x500gb wd (media and eventual vm storage)

1x160gb Seagate (free)

 

 

My goal is to have a functioning dual-boot system when all is said and done, running a full install of 10.5 and likely several applications like garageband, etc.

 

I am comfortable with command lines (I'm a net admin at work, running a mix of 2003 and linux on the servers), but I would be just as happy using a DVD I happen to find on the sidewalk to make it work.

 

Any pointers, especially given my hardware, will be very appreciated.

 

Thank you in advance!!!!

[Witchbender]

I have almost the same Hardware as you:

 

GA-P35-DS4

Intel C2D E6300 @ 3000 MHZ

4 GB Corsair XMS6400C4

Nvidia 8800GTS 640

2x WD5000AAKS

1x 250 GB Maxtor IDE for the MAC System

I do not use my MoBos Sound but an external Hercules DJ Console which was also working out-of-the-box

 

The following method worked flawless:

 

Install:

I used the Flat image with an unpartitioned HDD following the flatimage info from within VISTA Ultimate:

 

1. grab the torrent.

2. extract leopard-x86.rar to the folder

3. open compmgmt.msc and select Disk Management

4. remember what disk (Disk 0, Disk 1 etc) you want to install to

5. remove any existing partitions on that disk by right clicking and selecting 'Delete Volume' and 'Delete Partition'

6. copy the .bat file for the selected disk to the folder << WARNING!! selecting the wrong file may result in a wiped disk!! >>

7. execute the .bat file and wait..

8. reboot into the created disk [by pressing Esc, F12 or whatever your mainbord wants] and boot into a fresh osX 10.5 install, you can now

select your login info, location and so on.

9. if you wanna dualboot from vista, download EasyBCD...

10. if you're having trouble to boot into os x ,press F8 when booting and type -v at the boot screen to see whats wrong and then consult some osx86 forum.

 

DualBoot:

Then i installed Easy BCD 1.7.1 & MacDrive

 

Startup EasyBCD > Add/Remove Entries > Add an Entry: MAC Type: Generic x86 > Add Entry > Save

After you have installed Mac Drive and rebooted you search your leopard Systemdisk for boot.efi and copy the file to C:\NST\ (Easy BCD should have created a file named nst_mac.mbr in this folder upon clicking Save)

 

Reboot - Now you should have a Boot Menue where you can choose to start Windows or Leopard

 

Partition Creation & Resize:

In Leopard i noticed my Systemdisk is only 15GB so i followed the guide provided by Zuza:

 

In Vista I've created a second partition but did not format it. From Leopard I've erased the newly created partition and then used:

diskutil list

that listed back 2 partitions with the identifiers: disk1s1 and disk1s2 (in other cases might be disk0...)

Now,

sudo diskutil mergePartitions "Journaled HFS+" New disk1s1 disk1s2

 

I guess you want to use your 160GB for the MAC OS installation so you might want to create a 45GB partition and merge it to 60GB for MAC Os System.

 

If you want a 2nd partition that is fully accessible from within Leopard create a Fat32 in Windows. Keep it Fat32 if you want to use it in both systems. If it should be "Mac only" use the AppleDiskUtility to erase it and create a journaled partition in the former Fat32 space.

 

If you get an error message upon reboot about com.apple.Boot.plist not beeing found set the Leopard System partition active from within Windows ( I used Acronis Disk Director for all Windows partitioning stuff)

 

Update to 10.5.1:

The next thing i did was to install MacOs update 10.5.1 which resulted in my mac System not booting anymore so i had to start over again.

This time i followed the instructions by Xanthrax:

 

- Downloaded the 10.5.1 update from apple (you can do it via Software Update, select it and from the file menu, chose "Download only");

- Backed up my kernel (made a folder in the system disk named "kernels")

- With Disk Order , set to view hidden files I copied mach_kernel into /kernels (you can do with terminal, or Pathfinder or Xfolders)

- Backed up AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext, just in case;

- Opened the 10.5.1 update package with Pacifist 2.5.1, selected all, except mach_kernel and installed;

- Chowned and chmoded all extensions, just in case;

- Rebooted and voila, I have 10.5.1.

 

Software:

Now i installed my apps like iWork08, iLife08, NI Traktor, Ableton live....

and updated them without any probs.

 

TimeMachine:

After having everything set up to my wishes i decided to use TimeMachine to back it up to my 2nd Mac only partition.

Time Machine gave me an error msg about the drive not beeing found (can´t remember the exact error msg)

 

Fixed this with the instructions by The Baron:

Sounds like you need the moddified IONetworkingFamily.kext by ToH. Here it is...

 

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HWVMONUU

 

After placing it it /System/Library/Extensions

 

sudo -s

*password*

 

rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions.mkext

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext

 

reboot, and keep your fingers crossed

 

Thats my current state... hope my explaination helps you to get it working on your similar hardware.

These are my first steps into the world of MAC (This is my first post here ) and I´m not too familiar with the system internals so maybe there is a better/easier way by now, but my way is working great for me and only took me about 1 1/2 hour to get everything working.

[loop]

What a great reply!

 

I snagged (uh... found on the sidewalk outside) the flat image along with the ToH and a mac.nub image (10.4), and I'm still reading about each. Your method is looking to be the most likely - but the problem I'm now seeing is that the 8800GT isn't supported at ALL. the g92 gpu is completely out of luck, I think.

 

Anyone have input on that?

[shoarthing]

What a great reply!

 

I snagged (uh... found on the sidewalk outside) the flat image along with the ToH and a mac.nub image (10.4), and I'm still reading about each. Your method is looking to be the most likely - but the problem I'm now seeing is that the 8800GT isn't supported at ALL. the g92 gpu is completely out of luck, I think.

 

Anyone have input on that?

. . yup. Unless & until Apple use it you're probably out of luck [if they ever do - the competing RV670 has very superior power management & near-certain to be used in its various forms in upcoming Macs]

[loop]

Well, that completely sucks. Bigtime. Bleh.

 

 

 

I guess I could try on my laptop instead... wonder how support for the d620 is....

[an4rew]

thanks alot Witchbender... do you know if its possible to install EFI to make future updates a pinch?