Showing posts with label Leopard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leopard. Show all posts

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Leopard in to a Non-Apple Computer? - Part2

Continue from my previous post.... Slot the IATKOS dvd into my optical bay, and let's have fun. Installation of the OSX actually is rather straight forward, and it takes me about 15mins - 20mins with my machine. A quick walk in Google brings me to the OSX installation guide which is here.

Basically my first attempt actually failed as it keeps on looping in the mac account settings page. Looking into Google, it tells me that I would need to unplug or disconnect any network devices or disable LAN in BIOS.

Welcome screen appeared telling you that "Hey, you have installed a Mac"


Mac account setup screen


Well the trick doesn't work at first as it brings me to a deadly "Kernal Panic REBOOT" screen. No matter how many times I reboot my machine, I end up on the same deadly screen.
Kernal Panic Restart Screen


Holding my breath, I reformat my Mac Volume and start everything over again. This time, I excluded almost most of the items in installation option and yes, I managed to get back the Mac OSX welcome screen. The loop starts again from Mac OSX welcome screen to mac account setup wizard. I reboot my machine and reconfigure my BIOS again, and this time it works. I finally get into the MAC.

Everything is cool however there are several issues with my MAC.
1. First of all, it only detects one of my Hard drive instead of both of it.
2. Second, neither my NIC nor WLAN/WiFi Adapter being recognized properly.
3. Third, booting up Mac OSX tooks quite a long time compared to Vista.

In Part3, I would tells you how I solve 3 of these issues. Stay tuned. ;)

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Leopard in to a Non-Apple Computer?


As most of us know that in order to run a Macintosh/Apple OS, you would need to buy a Mac from Apple or add some amount to Job Steve's pocket. However with the help of a developer and geek, it actually enables you to install Mac right on your standard pc. Honestly speaking, with the migration of Mac from PowerPC platform to Intel platform, the idea of running Mac OS in PC gets much more simpler.

I bought my computer last year, and what I was trying to do is to make my setup as close as the real Mac. Due to the budget constrains, it might not be 100% identical with the real Mac of course. This is the specifications of my computer :

Processors : Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo E6600 - 2.4GHz
Mainboard : Gigabyte 965P - DS3 (Intel 965 Chipsets)
Ram Module : 2GB DDR2 667MHz
Graphic : Colorful - ATi X1950 with 256MB memory and 256bit.
Optical : LG DVD writer (SATA)
Hard Drive : Western Digital SATA WD2500KS + WD6400AAKS

The other parts which I didn't mentioned here was not important as it would support anyway.

Now get the tools ready and ready to go :
- An iATKOS_V1_R2 DVD
- GOOGLE and insanemac forum.

Stay tuned for part II.