Installation Guides

Revision as of 10:01, 27 August 2009

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.

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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.

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

10.5.0 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

10.4.9 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.

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.
• 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.

10.4.7 Guides

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

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

Greek

• Installation guide in Greek (OS X x86 10.4.7 και 8),
  Απλος οδηγος εγκαταστασης στα Ελληνικα
• Upgrade guide in Greek (OS X x86 10.4.8 σε 9),
  Οδηγος αναβαθμισης στα Ελληνικα
• 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

Turkish

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

Spanish

• 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

Arabic

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

French

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

German

• Installation guide in German
  Deutsche Anleitung zur Installation des "deadmoo" VMware Images auf einer Festplatte. Auch für Anfänger geeignet.

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.

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

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
• 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.