Have you personally ever attemptet an accessible hackintosh install before? If so, how did it go and what did you use?
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 8:47 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player Let us know how it goes. Getting a hackintosh up and running feels really good once its working, but it might take a couple of days before your 100% happy with it. I find that thinking of how much money I'm saving through out this time gives me enough drive to continue. On 08/04/2011, Dickson Tan <dickson.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Yes, the legacy kernel is designed specifically for people who's CPUs > aren't support on snow leopard's retail install. The OSX86 boot cd > that I'm thinking of using will in essence allow me to install snow > leopard on an MBR partition. By default, the retail dvd doesn't allow > that; I'd have to reformat my entire hard drive, wiping out this > windows install and change my partitioning scheme to GPT. Also, if in > the future I decide to say install vinux on my hard drive next to > windows 7 and snow leopard, using MBR will make future installation of other OSes easier. > > Once I've found some time to experiment with this, I'll do an image > backup of my windows partition, including the MBR using shadowprotect, > in the event that something goes catastrophically wrong during my > attempted snow leopard install. In theory, using the OSX86 mod cd in > conjunction with the snow leopard retail dvd should give me sound > during the installation, though I can't be sure since this is the > first time that I'm attempting this sort of thing. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose > Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 4:01 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player > > As you said, the latest update to snow leopard does support > sandybridge, but since that won't be the same version that your DVD > has, you still have to find a way of installing it. At the end of the > day, if snow leopard doesn't have the correct audio drivers by default, you won't get speech in install. > > I know theres some curnel hack for people that want to run it on AMD > CPU's, but the DVD's that incorporate it ahhem aren't exactly retail. > I sware I've scene people add leopard at least to existing os installs > so snow leopard should be possible. If I remember correctly, gparted > can do stuff to the partitioning so perhaps that might be worth a look? > > On 07/04/2011, Dickson Tan <dickson.j...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Good point. Perhaps I would need to use the OSX86 mod cd, which >> includes legacy colonel. I'm holding off on doing that for now, since >> I haven't really seen instructions of installing snow leopard >> alongside an existing windows installation using the OSX86 mod cd and >> the > snow leopard retail dvd. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ben >> Mustill-Rose >> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:47 AM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player >> >> Standard retail snowy won't though because it won't support sandybridge. >> >> On 07/04/2011, Ashley Cox <ashleycox...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> it will run on that machine. >>> >>> jestures won't though. >>> >>> ash >>> >>> On 07/04/2011 08:44, Dickson Tan wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> Hmm seems that an accessible install of snow leopard under VMWare >>>> isn't a viable way for me to try out snow leopard and voice over. >>>> I'll give virtualbox a try and hope that I get better results. >>>> >>>> I would only try a duel-boot install of snow leopard using >>>> something like IHazard (which includes voice over) as a last >>>> resort; I haven't found out either way whether Snow Leopard would >>>> install on an Acer Aspire 4750G. I'm not sure how well snow leopard >>>> would react to the fact that I'm using a core >>>> I7 quad-core sandybridge processor, which includes an integrated >>>> intel HD Graphics 3000 chip. I wouldn't expect things like gestures >>>> to work even if I successfully get mac installed. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ben >>>> Mustill-Rose >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:40 AM >>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> Subject: Re: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player >>>> >>>> This is against apples eula, even *if* you have purchased snow leopard. >>>> To get the dvd to boot, you'll first have to boot the vm using >>>> boot132, wait for some text to appear on the screen, eject the >>>> disk, insert snowy, complete the install potentially without voice >>>> over and then get audio plus some other things working post >>>> install. Its not something you'll be able to do on your own. >>>> >>>> It would probably be easier (But still not accessible) if you were >>>> to set up a duelboot depending on what computer you have at the moment. >>>> >>>> On 06/04/2011, Dickson Tan<dickson.j...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Hello All >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I've been thinking of trying out a mac lately, so I got the retail >>>>> version of the snow leopard dvd so that I can test snow leopard >>>>> under a vm in windows. I wanted to see if snow leopard was worth >>>>> the investment of getting a macbook. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> There are instructions on the net on how to install snow leopard >>>>> into a vm in VMWare Player and getting it to boot, but when I put >>>>> the snow leopard dvd into my laptop's dvd drive and try to launch >>>>> voice-over during the snow leopard install, I don't hear any sound. >>>>> Either voice-over doesn't start (which shouldn't be happening >>>>> since I have a snow leopard retail dvd) or there is problem with >>>>> sound during boottime in >>>> the vm. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Has anyone ever encountered such a problem before? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> >>>>> Dickson >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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