Installation Guides

Revision as of 18:35, 25 October 2008

This is a list of installation guides that will help you to get OSx86 up and running.
If you are new to OSx86, please use one of the guides in the Recommended section.

Please do not copy the content form one site to another site, please use original content in your site.

Please don't put your link anywhere; place it in the correct section.

Some of these guides don't tell you how to partition, please see the bottom of the page for details on partitioning or see Partitions.

Information for new users

If you want to install OSX on your Intel or AMD computer, your computer processor needs to support at least SSE2. You can check for SSE2 support with a program called CPU-Z. It is recommended that your computer supports SSE3 for application compatibility, speed and performance. Make sure to check which version of OSx86 you need for your processor.

Wikipedia on SSE2 and on SSE3. These pages feature a list of supported CPUs. Using CPU-Z is more accurate though.

Update Guides

Update guide for Leopard 10.5.x Update your 10.5.4 leopard . .

Update guide for Leopard 10.5.3 based on the above

Update troubleshooting guide for Leopard 10.5.5 . . . . . . . . . . .

USB Drive Installation Guides

USB External Drive Installation. 9 step guide. .

VMware Install Guides

Mac OS X 10.4.8 VMware-only Installation Guide Guide to installing Mac OS X 10.4.8 on VMware Workstation 5/6. Intel/AMD SSE2 or SSE3. Uses JaS Mac OS X 10.4.8 Intel/AMD SSE2 SSE3 PPF1 + PPF2 DVD.

Install Mac OS X x86 10.4.5 on VMware 5 Simple guide to installing Mac OS X86 10.4.5 on VMware.

Install Deadmoo OSx86 on VMware How to easily install Deadmoo OSx86 on VMware.

10.5.5 Guides

OSX Leopard 10.5.5 Installation Guide For Complete Beginners A step by step guide with many pictures and details.

10.5.5 on the Dell Inspiron/mini 9 Guide for 10.5.x to 10.5.5 on the Dell Inspiron/mini 9 . .

10.5.2 Guides

Make Coriolis Systems DVD boot on hackintosh machine

This guide helps you to patch Coriolis System DVD (iPartition) to boot it on a pc, to resize, remove, and re-partition your disk.

Install 10.5.2 on an AMD nForce4 A8N This install uses Kalyway 10.5.2 AMD / Intel and is designed to be very step-by-step. . .

Install 10.5.2 and XP on the same hard drive (INTEL ONLY) Easy-peasy beginners' guide. Uses Kalyway 10.5.2 and shows how to partition your drive in simple steps. . . .

10.5.1 Guides

• Dual Boot Leopard and Vista64 Guide Uses Kalyway_Leo_10.5.1 DVD and Vista64 Ultimate.
• Dual Boot XP and Leopard Guide Uses Kalyway_Leo_10.5.1 DVD. Guide is for beginners.
• Dual Boot Vista and Leopard Guide Uses iATKOS Leopard v1.0i (INTEL ONLY)
• iAtkos v1.0i Leopard 10.5.1 on AMD! Also includes dual boot help! Uses iAtkos Leopard v1.0i
• OSX86 Leopard 10.5.1 PC Installation Guide For Complete Beginners A step by step guide with many pictures and examples, very helpful.
• OSX86 Leopard 10.5.1 Upgrade to 10.5.2 Guide For Complete Beginners
  How to upgrade Leopard 10.5.1 to 10.5.2 without the Apple updater. Uses Kalyway Update Disk. . . . . . . . . . .

10.5 Guides

NauGHTiBeaTZ's How to Install Mac OS X 10.5 on an Intel Pentium 4
Simple Guide on using Kalyway's bootable disc to make a bootable hard disk for Leopard. Kalyway's disc also works for previous versions of Mac OS X. Download and print all 4 pictures. . . . . . . .

10.4.10 Guides

Mac on Pc- Rudimentry 10.4.10 update guide (no kernel update and supports sse2)
This is a rudimentary guide to update hack os to 10.4.10 done up by the creator. Follow the kernel installation guide above to install the new kernel!

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Link seems to be dead . .

10.4.9 Guides

10.4.9 10.4.9 Installation Guide
Install 10.4.9 on your AMD or Intel computer. This guide now includes instructions to update the kernel to 8.9.1.

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10.4.8 Guides

Quad Booting: XP/Vista/OSx/Linux
A comprehensive guide on quad booting.

How to Create a Simple Dual Boot System (Win XP/Mac OS 10.4.6/10.4.7/10.4.8)
A simple guide on how to get dual booting working.

Triple booting guide (Mac OS X, Ubuntu, and Vista/XP)
This guide shows how to triple boot Mac OS X, Ubuntu 6.06, and Windows on a single PC. This uses the GRUB bootloader.

Tiger on Asus EeePC
This guide shows how to install Mac OS X Tiger, on an Asus 701 Eee PC.

OSX86 10.4.8 PC Installation Guide
How to install OS X on a PC, A step-by-step with pictures.

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10.4.7 Guides

Complete OSX 10.4.7 Dual Boot Video guide
It's an excellent step by step tutorial. Password: gestapo

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10.4.5 Guides

Mac OS X86 10.4.5 Installation guide
This is a installation guide that should be used if you are starting from scratch with a myzar's DVD.

Install 10.4.5 on AMD using Myzars DVD image

VMWare -> Native (Video)
Using myzar ISO for AMD and Intel systems. In English and Spanish.

10.4.4 Guides

How to install 10.4.4 on Dell Inspiron 8500

10.4.3 Guides

Install and Configure OSx86
This is a start-to-finish guide for 10.4.1 with 10.4.3 notes appended.

10.4.1 Guides

Install OSX Tiger on Intel Machines (or USB Drives) Using Only Windows Software

OSX.4.1 on your Intel

International Guides

Please don't put Google or other translated guides in this area. This is for native language guides, please add translations beside your own guide**

Installation guide in Greek (OS X x86 10.4.7 και 8),
Απλος οδηγος εγκαταστασης στα Ελληνικα�br>

Upgrade guide in Greek (OS X x86 10.4.8 σε 9),
Οδηγος αναβαθμισης στα Ελληνικα�br>

Installation guide in Greek (OS X x86 10.4.6), Wiki guide in Greek
Οδηγίες εγκατάστασης και Wiki στα ελληνικά

Installation guide in Hungarian(10.4.4-10.4.7)
Magyar telep�t�si �tmutató és wiki

Installation Guide in Turkish (for OSX 10.4.6)
T�rk�e MacOS x86 Kurulum Rehberi

Installation guide in Spanish (for OSX 10.4.5)
Instalacion en espa�ol, con los torrents y parches para descargar.
C�mo Instalar Mac OS X desde wmware para iniciar en nativo
Programas- Native Install - VMware Install
Installation in Spanish

Guia de Instalaci�n Leopard 10.5.1 en Espa�ol
Guia de instalaci�n de Leopard en una PC

Installation guide in Arabic
Arabic guide to install OSX using the Vinc0r's DD method with screenshots.

Installation guide in French
Guide d'installation en fran�ais de l'image VMware "deadmoo" sur disque dur. Convient pour les d�butants.

Installation guide in German
Deutsche Anleitung zur Installation des "deadmoo" VMware Images auf einer Festplatte. Auch f�r Anf�nger geeignet.

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Dual Boot

Generic StepThru for MultiBoot using MBR install and boot_v8 bootfile with grub on Linux partition

Stock XP and OS X Dual Boot

Dual boot leopard and xp (Nederlands)(Dutch) '[Dual boot xp of Vista en leopard 10.5.1 op de zelfde harddisk ]
kan het nog makkelijker

How to create XP/Vista/OSX/Linux bootloader without any scripting
Use the easyBCD tool to add osx or linux partitions to your vista bootloader in one click!

How to Create a Simple Dual Boot System (Win XP/Mac OS 10.4.6/10.4.7/10.4.8)
A simple guide on how to get a dual boot running in less than 25 minutes!

How to dual boot OS X with Xp and any other operating system
An extremely simple guide on How to dual boot OS X with Xp and any other operating system.

Triple booting Windows, Linux, and OSX86
A guide on how to get a triple boot up and running.

Multibooting
Uses CentOS and Grub.

Use Multibooting Reference
Shows how to use WinGrub in place of Grub according to above article.

Install on a Partition, Simple and Accurate
Start with this one if you want to install. Created by members of the OSx86Project

. . . . . . . . . . . ( Video on How to dual boot XP & Mac OSX )

I Wanted to share with you all a link to a video that I uploaded that I found a while back online, & it's called ( How to dual boot XP & Mac OSX ) What I did was have it playing on another computer & I basicly just went step by step pausing & playing & even rewinding in some areas & it is a very good instructional video on how to basicly partition & dual boot or put as many different distro's as you like. you can use this same process with any os, but you know that windows of any kind must always be the first installed & then the others can be added. the link is below.

This video taught me basicly how to dual boot any distro be it XP & OSX,XP & Linux,XP & XP, or xp & anything,Have Fun! I knew how to dual boot before, but this way to me is the fastes & easiest. Just copy & paste the link below this line in the browsers address bar to see the video on ( How to dual boot XP & Mac OSX )

http://www.streamocracy.com/watch/305d1a6308d2a0cf1c39/Watch

I hope this can help you guys out that are having trouble dual booting or even just installing because this video basicly shows you how to partition your drive to get it ready for windows xp & how to partition your drive & get it ready for Mac osx x86. personaly I used Jas 10.4.8 AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3 . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Native Hardware (after installation)

Laptop Install w/ home-made dongle
(This is a forum link regarding laptop install problems, especially blue screens at boot. An external monitor is needed, or if you have none, this describes making a dongle that will pacify the OS.)

How to patch .kext for ATI Radeon
Enable QE and CL with your ATI Radeon card and set your custom resolution

Other Helpful Information from this wiki

Changing Screen Resolution[1]

Speed Tweaks

Building Darwin

AC97 Audio Guide

Good Tips and Tricks

[Possible] Guide to Networking

[2] Tutorials and setup info for Mac OS X x86 From How to Set Resolution to Widescreen to How to get the touch scroll and tapping fixed.

The proper boot order

If you get a "HFS+ partition error" in a dual boot situation (possibly in the event you had to re-install either OS after setting up your OS selection menu) it is possible that the wrong partition, or no partition, has been designated as the primary partition.

With EasyBCD

NeoSmart Technologies' EasyBCD contains a built-in feature to repair the HFS+ error. Just download and install EasyBCD from NeoSmart Technologies and run it. Go to the "Diagnostics Center" page, and select the "Repair HFS+ Partition Error" option. You'll be presented with a dialog asking you to select the disk and partition numbers for your OS X install. Once you've picked the right numbers, hit OK to repair.

Manually from the Vista DVD

If using Vista, boot to the Vista installation disk and choose the Repair Computer option and open the command line.

At the command line, follow the procedure first used in setting up the dual partition situation (the end of a line denotes pressing enter to complete the command):
diskpart
list disk
select disk <the number of your disk>
list partition
select partition <the number of your windows partition>
active (if this doesn�t work, try set active)

Attempt your boot again. If this does not help, or if you are not in a dual boot situation, the next easiest thing to do is to format your hard drive and just start over.

You can also try downloading Gparted Live CD. Boot into that and then read the online documentation on how to create and format your partitions and disks. Create 3 partitions of any size, as long as the X86 partition is larger than 7GB. Create a NTFS partition, a EXT3 partition, and a FAT32 partition.

Install Windows first. Either Vista or XP is fine, but beware, I just installed Vista and it takes of 10GB! Then Install Ubuntu Linux (download the ISO or get a free ship-it CD from them, shipping is free) or another flavour as long as it has GRUB built into it. I recommend Ubuntu for its ease of use and GRUB. Then Install X86. Using DiskUtility to format your FAT32 partition as FAT32 once, then format it with HFS Journaled (HFS+). The installation only takes about 10 minutes or so, but Vista takes a little longer and so does Ubuntu.

You can also use the GParted Live CD to boot various partitions on your PC so you can boot the partition with your other OS on and reinstall the bootloader from there. For Windows Vista you can follow the procedure outlined above direct from your Windows Vista installation (run cmd as administrator to avoid problems) and for Linux you can use grub-install or the grub shell to rewrite the MBR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( How to dual boot XP & Mac OSX )

I Wanted to share with you all a link to a video that I uploaded that I found a while back online, & it's called ( How to dual boot XP & Mac OSX )

This video taught me basicly how to dual boot any distro be it XP & OSX,XP & Linux,XP & XP, or xp & anything,Have Fun! I knew how to dual boot before, but this way to me is the fastes & easiest. Just copy & paste the link below this line in the browsers address bar to see the video on ( How to dual boot XP & Mac OSX )

http://www.streamocracy.com/watch/305d1a6308d2a0cf1c39/Watch

I hope this can help you guys out that are having trouble dual booting or even just installing because this video basicly shows you how to partition your drive to get it ready for windows xp & how to partition your drive & get it ready for Mac osx x86. personaly I used Jas 10.4.8 AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3 $ it worked well, but ofcourse I had some driver issues, but I got everything working except my video card & wirelesss card, but I did get my sound & ethernet working on my toshiba a45 laptop working. Enjoy & Good Luck! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .