Alex7575 Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I just got my computer setup for the first time, so I'm just a newbie as all you, errr.... newbies... When installing for the first time, keep these in mind: -CPU -Intel or AMD -SSE2 or SSE3 I can't talk about AMD's as I never did an AMD installation, but on Intel machines if you have a SSE2 CPU, DO NOT INSTALL ANY VANILLA KERNELS OR FIXES (VANILLA IS SSE3 ONLY) -Drivers - DO NOT TRY TO INSTALL ANY DRIVERS ON YOUR FIRST INSTALL, try getting your machine to boot, then worry about getting periferals to work. -EFI - Only select the EFI (MBR or GUID) that matches your partition type (MBR or GUID). As I mentioned earlier I'm a newbie too, if something up there is wrong, I apologize in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86001-osx86-installations-are-not-like-installing-windows/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.SubZero Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 It's so much more complicated than you make it sound, that I don't even know where to begin. Basically, if you consider installing Windows to be "difficult", you don't want to get anywher near OSX86. It's a square peg shoe-horned and wedged to fit in a round hole. Success ranges to moderate to dismal. Functionality ranges similarly. Just the 'blinking cursor after install' thing can drive a person insane. No, flagging the partition bootable NEVER fixes it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86001-osx86-installations-are-not-like-installing-windows/#findComment-610292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex7575 Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 It is more complicated, but a quick look at the questions will tell you that people assume that installing all drivers will make OSX 'choose' the correct driver and boot, also I see a lot of posts of people having trouble because they're installing a SSE3 kernel when all they have is a SSE2 cpu. My post is meant to the people who think they can just pop a dvd in and the installation will boot to a fully configured OS. It took me 2 months to get my machine setup, because it wouldn't start the installation because I had the wrong power supply for my laptop. I tried installing Leopard at least 100x before I figured the power supply problem. I think I know better than most people out there, that it's not as simple as I put it in my first post. Alex Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86001-osx86-installations-are-not-like-installing-windows/#findComment-610304 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serphi Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Partition editing, installing foreign OS's is something you should only do when you feel comfortable around it. Or if it doesn't matter if your computer dies randomly =p Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/86001-osx86-installations-are-not-like-installing-windows/#findComment-611254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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