I have an HP probook 4510s, I'd love to actually have a "cheep" mac. If
there's a way to install an updatable OSX snow leopard on the laptop I'd be
greatful.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Mustill-Rose" <bmustillr...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player
Hey,
I've done quite a few hackintoshes in my time, all of which from
memory have needed sighted help to get up and running.
I mainly make hackintoshes on desktops that have been built for that
exact purpose - E.G. picking a compatible motherboard and CPU. this
has made things much easier. The basic method is:
Build a box with components that other people have got to work.
Usually, ahci needs to be disabled in the bios.
Boot the box using boot132.
Once boot132 has booted, insert snow leopard.
Cary out the snow leopard install with sighted help and restart the
machine.
Boot to boot132.
Boot into the osx install.
Install a bunch of packages from places like ihackintosh to get stuff
working such as audio, ethernet and propper video. Also install
something that allows osx to boot without boot132.
Thats pretty much it. When ever I do them, I always try and base the
install from a retail dvd for maximum stability. The one exception was
when I installed snow leopard on my Samsung NC10 which required a
modified version which had been created for the MSI Wind line of
netbooks.
Like I say, its not really something that you would want to be doing
every day and its not really for the faint hearted. Having said this,
if you plan ahead and make sure your hardware is supported, you get a
great hackintosh that runs just like a normal mac.
On 08/04/2011, Dickson Tan <dickson.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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