jagged Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 Hi I am very new to this and there are practical issues that I dont know how to do. I have taken the plunge and bought the following for a hackintosh with dual boot (xp) abit ip35, E8400 core 2 duo, 2x2 gb ram, sata DVD drive, Sata Harddrive and so on. Now i would like to run 10.5 and xp on this machine but how do I do it. I have the kalaway disk allready. There is just a lot of practical aspects i dont know how to do. Do I just put the kalaway disk in the drive and start a OSX installation and hope it works ? Do I then afterwards install xp as if it was a normal mac I was creating a dualboot on ? Whats the best way about it and what kind of problems can i expect ? Best wishes Jakob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiJKa Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 Hrmmm... A lot of this is probably covered by a simple search, buuuuuuuut, I installed Kalyway's Leopard (10.5.1) on an IP35pro a month or so back, so I remember a few of the caveats. Lan worked out of the box. Although it only wanted to work on one of the two GB ports. Took some annoyance to figure that out. Sound required patching, if I recall correctly. No biggie. A search with the model number of your card (or it's chipset, more likely) will DEFINITELY turn up an answer or a link. Recognizing anything on the Jmicron SouthBridge (at least then) was a horrible, ugly, b!+@# of a task. ALSO, as I recall, there were some EFI issues, depending on which version of Kalyway you had. One didn't work for me. (Sadly, I don't recall which one. That entailed some rather serious after patching to get EFI up and running. And a lot of tiresome rebooting etc etc etc) Another issue, might, conceivably be your graphics card, although I'm assuming that you took the trouble to find one that you knew worked. And, to the best of my recolection, the last couple of versions of Kalyway's DVDs have had the drivers incorporated, so no worries there, probably. As far as DUAL BOOTING goes.... In all honesty, I don't know. I personally sport a multi-drive system and always install my OSes separately. It saves a LOT of hassle in the case of an unwanted but required format. And dualbooting off the same physical drive can be a {censored} anyway. (Seriously. I find the price of an extra HD to be far more logical than the pain of dualbooting. Not to mention my work needs lots of physical disk space, but still. Not worth the hassle imho.) Oh! And, if you're working with a single physical drive, you'll definitely want to do TWO things: a)Install Windows FIRST. Windows HAETS the mbr and rewrites it without asking you anything. It is a haetful OS. It will kill anything there before it's arival. b)Make sure you've already set a partition for OSX. Make one FAT32 and then erase it during the installation process with the Disk Utility, rewriting it as OS X Journaled. And, uhmmmmmmm, good luck. -------- As a quick addendum, I've just installed 10.5.2 with Zephyroth's DVD (the one that includes SSE2 patching and a number of nifty little drivers etc etc etc) and as nice as Kalyway's recent releases were, I actually preferred it. Faster boot times off the DVD, less hassle (if less documentation at times as well). And it just...worked. Seriously. It was creepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagged Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 As a quick addendum, I've just installed 10.5.2 with Zephyroth's DVD (the one that includes SSE2 patching and a number of nifty little drivers etc etc etc) and as nice as Kalyway's recent releases were, I actually preferred it. Faster boot times off the DVD, less hassle (if less documentation at times as well). And it just...worked. Seriously. It was creepy. Thank you for the tips. If I go for 2 drives instead of one how is the install process then ? Sorry for all the asking but I am very new to this. But thanks for the tip about the other install version. If that one is easyer offcourse I just have to go for that. I will have a look at zephyroths version Thanks a bunch Best wishes Jagged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagged Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 Hi Now i just found zephys dvd BUT it states that its a AMD version, will that mean it doesnt work on Intel ? Best wishes Jagged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lippstuh Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 i have the same motherboard but i cant boot the kalyway 10.5.2 disk it just say apple.plist.... cant be found or something liike that can anyone help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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