Right now in my hands I hold one of the first bootable OSx86 10.4.4 disks. This disk will allow anyone to install OSx86 on any SSE2 or greater machine. No, this isn’t a hoax; this disk is real.
Within the last four hours a random 10.4.4 DVD patcher turned up on Usenet. Some OSx86ers caught onto this and started downloading it. After giving the shell scripts a thorough look-over, OSx86ers deemed this patcher legit. Once the disk was acknowledged as the real deal, several OSx86ers began testing this DVD out, including me.
Unfortunately the install hasn’t been going one-hundred percent as planned. The installation takes a while to start and while it does complete, 10.4.4 does not boot for some people. A few lucky individuals have got 10.4.4 to boot without trouble. Personally, I’m still waiting for the install to complete
It looks as if within the next day a fully working 10.4.4 bootable disk will be out in the wild. Keep an eye out for it at a torrent site near you. Yes, miracles do come true.
Update: My installation succeeded, although I did have a few minor kext errors. With some quick minor repairs this installation will be up and running in no time.
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Interesting. So this is an iso I can burn onto a DVD and install it w/o all the work you went through earlier? For some reason, whenever I see ‘disk’ i think floppy disk, and ‘disc’ for compact disc. dunno just me. not to be a nit picker though.
For those looking for the DVD patcher and have USENET access, go here:
Removed to keep the site legal.
I hate to keep spamming the comments, but the patcher has been uploaded to:
Please do not post the file. This website needs to remain legal. ~cavemoneky50
If you plan on directly linking to the file, don’t do it on here. OSx86 Project was taken down due to direct links, and I’m trying to prevent that. Sorry.
Seriously. Don’t directly link. That’s idiocy. Link to a torrent when it comes out.
bad karma dude
Man Cavemonkey I’m going to start looking at ur site more often. It looks like your getting popular. Keep it up bro and I still think you got the job for PPL hahaha see ya at school laters!
Don’t even link to torrents, just mention key parts of the name, and any user can find the file for themselves.
Good Job stealing the Greasemonkey icon!
Believe it or not I had that favicon way before Greasemonkey ever existed. You can check my archive.org logs.
I’m currently using 10.4.3, is there any advantage to upgrading to 10.4.4?
The majority of bugs you may have noticed have been fixed. In my opinion, just having the latest Safari is worth it. Many of Safari’s extensions only work with the latest version.
For some reason, whenever I see “disk” i think floppy disk, and “disc” for compact disc.
For some reason, whenever I see ‘Jonathan’, I think of a fucking white cocksucking, ball-licking ugly fag.
Right, i have this thing for months now…
Didn’t use that patcher, but did it myself.
Not hot news for me….
The “hot” news is that this is 10.4.4. 10.4.x has been leaked for months now. This is a new build.
My big question is how compatible are ATI/Nvida graphics cards with 10.4.4? Quartz Extreme and resolution changing work now?
So.. Excuse me for being daft, but does this mean this will run on any Pentium older than 2001/2002? Since it’s SSE2, does it mean it’ll run on Athlons? -support was added in 2003-
How about Athlon64’s?
Cheers
Ya don’t post direct links. I would also like to know if there is full acceleration on systems using nVidia cards because I had read that they weren’t supported.
Now the real question is if the install will update. If the software updater is not able to sense the processor that is running, the system will stay updated and secure. If not, keeping things up to date will be a task. This should make things interesting.
Rick
(paying mac user)
I’m wondering about the support of graphic cards myself.. does it support radeon 9600? if it does, it’ll be installed on my computer very quickly
Hi, does using this OS allow you to still play all the games that I play on Windows?
Thanks
Allan
God damn those f******* bastards… stick to your crapy windows stuff and leave us mac users alone… Who ever that did should be shot burned and thorwn into a toilet… :evil::evil::evil:
You guys are really funny, if you still to try to install OS X on X86-Mashines without any trouble, i work on my mac and i know everything works fine.
And the Next update is coming, and your OS X will be works in future always sluggish. Super, whats the advantage? Whats the Deal? Go back to Windows or buy a Mac.
Have fun with OS X, but the feeling is the same like if you want to try to build a Porsche-Engine inside a VW Beetle of the 70´s.. How it feels? You know somebody does it, it could work, someday the Beetle can be very fast, but its a lot of work and the End of the Story is, you need Time, maye a lot of money to have a Old Beetle with a Porsche Engine. But what you dont have is a Porsche. Too Bad.
What are you talking about … Apple use the very same components every other manufacturer use, all iBooks starting with QT are made in the same plants as Dell Latitudes, their just contracted out to the cheapest manufacturer in asia. The big difference is ibooks and powerbooks are pretty and have one mouse button. The screen is made by samsung, the disks are made by Toshiba, the graphics card is made by nVidia ? Whats so special about this hardware with an apple badge stuck on it ?
where is the hardware compatability list ?
The list is here. It’s going to take a view days to build up the list though.
i did a little searching and i think that my laptop sony vaio vgn-fs315b is SSE2 compatible
but before i start downloading the DVD could someone tell me if it would work thanks in advance.
1.73 pentium m
intel media graphics accellerator 900
512mb of ram
what’s the name of the torrent so I can search for it. Thanks people. No link needed, just the name of the torrent. Peace out.
for some odd ball reason, whenever i see Faggots R Us i see a 12 year old getting beat up by his dad by a belt and crying like a little sissy.
Once this is up and running, does anyone know if like on a Mac you will be able to load OSX on an external drive and boot it on any computer. If that is posible than we can carry our drives and have OSX anywhere all most all computer will be potential Macs!!!
Hey great !
I recently won a xbox 360 http://www.oh22.net/02/ there . Possible to boot osx from there ?
What’s the name of the file on the torrents?
Eric, just go to demonoid and search for “10.4.4″ one of the first results should be a osx86 10.4.4 install dvd or something like that
Folks,
This page is getting a lot of hits from people interested in this project. Please try not to act so retarded. I also find your lack of grammatical skills to be very offensive. Am I talking to you? You decide.
“Have fun with OS X, but the feeling is the same like if you want to try to build a Porsche-Engine inside a VW Beetle of the 70´s.. How it feels? You know somebody does it, it could work, someday the Beetle can be very fast, but its a lot of work and the End of the Story is, you need Time, maye a lot of money to have a Old Beetle with a Porsche Engine. But what you dont have is a Porsche. Too Bad.”
But you do have an old beetle that will carry the front wheels 3 feet off the ground across the parking lot!
It would be really handy if dual boot would work (winxp and osx).
Anyway, nice job.
So let me get this staright, all i need to install 10.4.4 OSx86 is this disc?
Does this release require PAE? I couldn’t install 10.4.3 because it requires strict PAE. I have sse2 but no PAE.
Alright, I have a lot of questions to answer, so let’s get right to them.
No, no major improvements. Apple has ATI/Nvidia cards working now but only with EFI. So, hacked versions will not be able to take advantage of these new drivers.
OSx86 will work on any CPU - as long as it has at least SSE2 instructions. The plain ond Athlons don’t have SSE2, but the new 64 ones do.
Software Update works and will even attempt to update to 10.4.5. It’s just 10.4.5 replace several hacked files necessary to run. If we get lucky some updates will work, but I’m guessing Apple will be trying their hardest to make updates to the files we need.
9600 is supported, although you’ll be stuck in 1024×768 and have some minor mouse tearing.
No. Windows apps and Mac apps are not compatible.
Yes, you can do it. You just have to make sure those computers have at least SSE2 support.
No.
You can. You just need a boot loader.
Bingo!
I’m pretty sure it does, but don’t quote me on that.
To all those being well smartasses you can take your dumb ass comments somewhere else. To those that have real questions keep asking cavemonkey will try to help you as much as he can. But this post is send to thoses jerks commenting stop being pussies and get a life.
=]
Hi my friends…
What’s the OSX86’s performance taken WinXP like paremeter? It’s really best or simply a geek trick to “shows how cool is”?
I work in Photoshop with a 200Mb file and mi Dell Latitude with 512 and WinXP turns slow… with OSX can be better the performance.
With OSX I can work with Photoshop, Autocad, Flash, etc. but in Linux don’t… ergo… OSX will be a great alternative to XP.
Has anyone tried to install into VMware?
The patched DVD does not work in VMware, at least according to the random NFO file that comes with the patcher. OSx86 10.4.4 does work in VMware, though. You just need to follow Maxxuss’ original 10.4.4 directions and not use the patched DVD.
Good Job stealing the OS X and installing on your sucking windows machines.
Come on, get a real mac if you wanna use OS X…thats so wierd, what you´re
doing….
I don’t wanna buy a Mac… this “white, metallic, shinny, with chocolate chips” laptops are only de packaging for sell a good S.O., obviously that’s only marketing.
Dell is a good machine, but it comes with XP… with OSX would be much better. They have similar components. Are they similar performances with OSX?
I just got the install dvd burnt. I pulled the hdd out of my laptop (Acer Travelmate 4400) and stuck in an older 40 Gb one (with no partitions, just unallocated space) so i could play without accidently deleting my windows.
I loaded from the dvd. It comes to a window with an apple logo and a progress wheel, but then a little error icon (circle with line through) comes up and it stops.
1) The next time I tried with the -v command and I got the line “IOPCCardBridge : : checkBusIDs invalid sub/cardbus/pci settings of 0×0″ followed by “still waiting for root device”. No go.
About half of the times I try booting from the disk, I immediately get the line “System config file ‘/com.apple.Boot.plist’ not found”.
I have tried several times and I get always end at instance 2 from above. Would you say this is an issue with the compatability (hope not) or an issue with the hdd not being formated, or something else all together?
Dustin, this is an early version of the bootable install CD, and from what I’m hearing a lot of people are having trouble installing it on laptops. Maxxuss has said that he will be working on a solution, so hold tight, a new disc is on the way.
ok, thanks cavemonkey… sux to be me…. cant wait for version that will for me…
I got 10.4.4 installed without a hitch but my display is screwy. I have an integrated intel i think its a 915G chipset. But in 10.4.4 my resolution is 800×600 and 256 colors, but actually looks more like 8 colors, and its hard to read the text. Any ideas on how to fix this? i dont expect to find any drivers and i cant write my own,
Any ideas?
Thanks
Thanks for this resource cavemonkey
I’d hate to buy one of those sluggish MacIntels just to test OSX.
Thank you all for inflating the prices for the honest people out there who have a conscious and are unselfish enough to see the consequences that ruin society.
A lot of whiny babies around here.
Anyway, my quick experience with the install:
Booted and installed without a single hitch on an HP Pavilion 700 series. P4, i845 chipset, Nvidia geforce 2 MX video, 256MB ram. The only thing that doesn’t work is the built-in ethernet port. Initially booting the DVD is slow as hell, but after install it runs much faster than I expected.
I tried 2 Athlon XP based systems, just for fun, and couldn’t even get the DVD to boot.
Does it stall for a while, perhaps giving an airport error? I let it go for ten minutes after it stalled and nothing happened, and no hard drive activity, so I’m assuming it died. Unless I should be booting it in verbose?
I am installing 10.4.4 now using vmware and daemon tools, because I dont have a burner, the setup was a little tricky, to say the least, but its installing, shows about an hour left…grrrrrr….Also my machine has 2 internal hard drives, and what I did was take the vmware method of putting chain0 into my boot.ini, so its flagged at start, and HOPEFULLY it will boot into 10.4.4…We shall see!
From what I’ve heard, with this version of the disc it’s impossible to install in VMware. The original creator of the patcher is working hard to get VMware working, but at the moment it does not.
sorry i copied wrong link….
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/7113/hahahaha3cp.jpg
So I got 10.4.4 completely installed without a hitch but there are a couple things that arent working: audio and ethernet.
I found a link that shows how to get the audio working, but I couldnt get it to work. I dont know why. I basically have a stock Dell Dimension 4700. If anyone is willing to help me figure out how to get these things working, let me know and I will be MORE than willing to give more detailed specs on my hardware.
Email or hit me up here if you are willing to help.
Thanks guys!
darylhenson@comcast.net
I got it to install and everything but when it gets to the last step, “finish up” it says restart and just sits there. So I manually restart and it doesn’t boot at all. What am I missing?
just go to piratebay
there it’s!
Burned the DVD ISO starts to boot says press any key to install then gets to a grey screen with various error msges in different languages saying to reboot.Any clues ? XP 2600 2gb ram geforce 6600 GT
Tried it on my celeron 2.3 ghz 1gb ram geforce 2 TI same error.
Well, that’s pretty ignorant. Inflating what prices? The totally unjustified $3000 cost of a Mac that has been around long before the x86 iterations of the OS? Or do you mean those of us who own Macs, and have legitimately purchased OS X, but would just much prefer to run it on our much more powerful x86 based machines? I am sick of trying to run OS X through PearPC at molasses speeds. And I am sick of ignoranmuses who claim to have some idea what they’re talking about yet really have no clue. There is no evidence that the project to unlock x86 OS X to other machines has hurt Apple in anyway or that it has driven up costs. Keep dreaming fan boy. Enjoy your $3000 machine, I hope you like paying a $1500 bonus just for the OS, because the hardware doesn’t justifiably cost that much.
Hi, I install the DVD on my computer, everything runs fine on the install, but after finishing the computer reboot and I the only thing I can see it’s the cursor blinking on the upper-left corner, and the OSX never boot.
Any advice? Sorry for my bad English.
now got it to boot says select install directory and no drive shows ??? any clues guyz plz
SORTED !!!!!
Happy as a pig in shit !!! muppet trouble
Is there anyway hackers coders ect can make it compatable for SSE only machines ??
mmm restarted and says they were errors
Trying to install again
gutted
I try using a diferent hard disk and obtain the same result. The OSX install complete, but when reboot I only see the blinking cursor on the upper-left corner, looks like the the pc does not find the info to boot the OS.
Any ideas of what can I look?
When your computer is starting up press F8. You should get a boot prompt. Type -v and watch the messages that appear. Look for any errors and post them here.
Nope, SSE doesn’t include the instructions needed to make OS X work.
When my computer start I press F8, but anything happend. Any prompt or message, if I put the install DVD the computers start again, I notice that I can open the terminal when the install it’s about to begin, I was thinking if I can check the correct installation of OSX on the HD, can be that done?
Thanks,
Well, you won’t be able to diagnose the exact problem by using the boot DVD. What I would try is repeatedly pressing F8 as you boot the computer. There should be at least a second when you can get the prompt.
msrs cavemonkey and maxxus have tremendous investments in time
spent on this. that must be acknowledged and commended.
those that do not go blindly into the land of the pod people are and shall remain invaluable.
to some they are criminals. i’m sure they would not want their intellectual property subject
to the whim of theives. But I can’t view them as such. Were they truly able to be such an influence
upon a world wide market, they would have no use for such pursuits.
that is to say : if apple had
anything to fear from these men and their interests, apple would have little say in it.
the fact is that it is this very kind of spirit that was once present in a little company called apple computers.
i’m glad that someone has inherited that soul.
i am weary from trying to distill the endless bits into a function item of technological curios.
i’ll probably have to “donate” some funds to a stranger in exchange for a disc of the install.
i haven’t the free time to keep searching.
but i thank cave for a little kerosene to toss on a dwindling fire.
remember, whoever you are as individuals, don’t justify crudeness or pettiness, rather,
feel the strength of someone who stands as a member of the human race. a member who
if nothing else, never hinders another who would do good for us all.
I have the same problem as Edian!
My system boot on the dvd, install everything without any problems.
I also tried the -v and everything seems perfect!
After the installation is done, it reboots and there are the problem.
IF the computer starts with the DVD in… it says: “system config file ‘/com.apple.boot.plist’ not found” and it stucks.
If a reboot without the DVD in, i got a little cursor blinking on the top left and nothing happen! I can’t even press F8 nowhere.
It only works if I leave the dvd in and I want to install again!
Then I can press F8, type -v and ENTER but it will re-install everything.
I have the same problem after !!
Any solution ?
Thank you very much!
GeniuS
Have you guys tried the 10.4.5 DVD that’s been floating around? It might work a lot better for you than the 10.4.4 DVD.
I don t know wich one I m using but I think it is the 10.4.5 version !
How can I know ?
I ll try to download again.
I thought I have the good one because all the installation worked perfectly!
I was able to repartition my disk, erase with security level 7 (also tried the “zero format” ) and then choose that new formated drive to install, wait about around 30 min for the installation (with all the progress bar).
For me, that means that my dvd is perfectly bootable!
But it just doesn’t start Mac OSx after !!
As I said, I ll try to download again !
Tkx
I’m pretty sure that I’m using 10.4.5
Same thing, I going to download it again and make sure it’s 10.4.5, the weird thing it’s that the 10.4.3 works fine, maybe I need to put attention on the old advice if works don’t fix it!
I’m going to try this over the weekend on my custom Athlon64 3000/2GB RAM/Geforce 6800/Nforce 3 chipset. I’ll get the 10.4.5 DVD and start with that, then if that doesn’t work try the Maxxuss steps.
A few questions:
I would like to install this on an external USB2.0 HD. Is that possible from the OS X installer? I run windows primarily and don’t want to screw anything up. I can also move the HD internal and install to that, but will I have to disconnect all my other drives or is the installer smart enough to only affect the installed drive?
Where does OS X write it’s boot code? Will it overwrite other bootloaders?
If nVidia graphics cards aren’t supported, doesn’t the OS run sluggishly without the Quartz optimizations?
Thanks.
Absolut, regarding the USB hard drive, it depends on your PC’s BIOS. If you can boot from a USB device you should be able to do it.
Now, regarding the no QE/CI, if your system is fast enough you won’t have a problem. From the specs you gave me, it appears that you’ll be running a little slow, but it should be bearable.
Ok, I wanna make sure I do it the right way !
I saw an installation tutorial and it is REALLY not what I ve done !
I use a Compaq D51S P4 1.8, 256mo RAM (not the best computer but I should be able to install anyway!!)
I don t have any OS on right now.
I burnt the dvd from MY computer (not the one I m testing on).
Boot on the dvd I burnt directly, and it boots up.
The MAC os installation starts, I format my drive completly with the 7 check sécurity (something like that) with only 1 partition.
Then close the “disk utility” and choose the drive I just formated.
It take like 30-40mins to install, and then it is like I wrote before!
- If I boot with the DVD bootable in, and I don’t click on nothing, it says “/com.apple.boot.plist not found”.
-Boot with the DVD bootable in, but click on F8, it starts with the BOOT: option.
What ever I tip it restarts the installation. not what I want!
-Boot without any DVD in, it stucks at the begining with a blinking cursor on the top left. I can’t do anything, not even press F8 !!
I m downloading it again but I m pretty sure it will do the same as the dvd is OK, I have been able to install it so…
Any solution ?
Thank you very much!
GeniuS
just got OSX 10.4.5 bootable DVD will try and post results !!!
I’m doing the same that Genius and getting the same troubles.
Genius please let me know if downloading 10.4.5 fix the error.
Hi, when i boot with the OSX86 10.4.4 bootable DVD, i dun really get the nice installation instruction, after the single-apple-on-screen display, i arrived at the console terminal. It looks really like Linux. Can tell me what i should do to get the installation going??
I m installing the 10.4.5 right now!
15min left and I got “There were errors installing the software” Please try installing again!
I feel like a scratch a 1$ ticket and it says Try again later!
I booted on it, click on custumize instalation but everything seems ok so I just clicked on install. It runs for 15min and then at 15min far from the end it stuck!
Any idea ?
Thank you
GOOD, it works.
I downloaded 2 diffenrent torrent file (1 says MacOSx86 10.4.5, and the other 10.4.4 patched)
The one that works for me is 10.4.4 patched. It install 10.4.5 anyway and it works perfectly!
Thank you very much
There’s nothing wrong with posting the website of patches made to bypass digital preventions of interoerability. The DMCA explicitly states this and makes an exception for it. Only if the patch provides a means for breaking copyright law is it illegal. None of these patches do that. You can legally buy a Tiger disc and legally patch it–end of discussion. Posting links to legal websites attempting to break down the same habits courts found unjust in Microsoft policy is hardly wrong, and certainly not illegal. Be more careful and don’t be scared by companies trying to throw their weight around because they don’t like your activities. Know your s**t, and tell them what’s up, if they try to stop you.
First of all a few words To Steve Jobs; You know it’s inevitable you are gonna have to start selling OSX for PC’s. if you don’t we are gonna keep Hacking. Oh and don’t worry Rich Faggots like Real Mac Guy or Moral will still buy your hardware
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I totally agree with you my friend. We are thankful for their precious work and time
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Hey Faggot. 1st of all not everyone can afford a mac, 2, our machines don’t suck, our operating Sytems suck, Our machines are probably even faster than yours….
Hey GeniuS, I downloaded 10.4.5 and happend the same thing, I didn’t find the 10.4.4 patched on the torrent search. Any advice?
Thanks,
I’m wanting to dual boot with XP Pro. If I create a seperate partitian what type of file system do I create for OSX 10.4.4 DVDPATCHED.iso
(I’d really like to get back to using a MAC and this is fascinating. I learned about computers on a MAC back in the mid 90’s, but switched to PC’s because there just wasn’t any gaming software I wanted for MAC) Thanks for the time.
By the way I’m also dual booting with SuSe 10 and XP Pro, so I’m using the SuSe 10 bootmanager.
You’ll need to create a HFS+ partition. You need to do that through the OS X installer unless you’re running some special partitioning software on Linux. As long as you have a free partition setup, installing OS X on it will work just fine. Your existing SuSe bootloader should handle the OS X partition selection flawlessly.
Thanks allot cavemonkey50. Freaky. A triple boot of XP Professional, Linux SuSe 10 and Mac OS X Incredible..
I have a 15gb unallocated partitian I want to install OSx86 to. When installing it gets to “select a destination” I get a blank. Nothing is shown. Where do I go from here. If I can create a HFS+ then it should recognize the partitian. ? Not sure if using FDISK is my best choice here if I can create it using the OSx86 10.4.4 install disk. thanks
In the OSx86 installer open up the Disk Utility application from the menu on the top. I’m not exactly sure what title it’s under, so just hunt through the top menu and you should find the application. From there you should be able to see all the partitions of the drive. Select the partition you want to install it to and format it using HFS+. Now when OSx86 prompts you, you should have an partition available for installation.
Thats what I went into before but it didn’t list the unallocated partitian I wanted to install to. So…. I created a partitian for OSx86 to install to so it could recognize it. I think I had this similar problem with Linux. They don’t recognize unallocated disk space. Thanks again cavemonkey50. I’ll let you know how I progress. Now if I get OSx86 on I’m going to have to go for the quadruple boot with Vista 5342. I had that on last week. Not impressed.
When I highlight the partitian (Fat32 to be recognized) and the options it gave me was: First Aid-Erase-Raid-Restore. When I highlighted the entire 160GB hard drive which included all the partitians it then gave me the partitian option. When I click on the partitian option it then lists the different partitians (Yes!) When I click on the Mac OS X partitian I want partitianed and I click the partitian button, it warns me my entire hard drive will loose all its information including all partitians ? Whats the deal here. Why won’t it allow me to partitian just one of my partitians. And there isn’t any options for HFS+ only OS X journeled (not journeled)
Well, don’t partition it through OS X then. You’ll be loosing your information. Instead, you’re going to have to do the linux method. I found a great guide on doing a triple boot. I recommend you read that.
I just happened to have a copy of Vmware around here. Nice angel. Weird! I just looked at that link. Ok, Cavemonkey50, back to the batcave.
Pain in the you know where. I’ve been trying all night to install on my PC with no luck. I might have to hang it up. Not messing with Fdisk. OSx86 just won’t create a seperate partitian from my entire hard drive even though I have 4 seperate partitians and one ready to go for OSX. Any ideas will be helpful. By the way I tried going in from my Suse 10 boot disk/startup with no luck. Are there any other programs out there that will let me create a HFS+ partitian on my PC..
Here are my specs by the way
XP Pro/SuSe 10
P4/3.4
Seagate 160GB 7200 HDD
Asus P5GD2 Deluxe MB
2GB-DDR2 SDRAM
GeForce 6600/256
SB Audigy 2 6.1
Installed MacDrive 6 with all the updates and in reading the help files I run into this:
“You cannot use MacDrive Disk Manager to add a Mac partition to a PC-partitioned disk. Using MacDrive Disk Manager on a PC-partitioned disk will destroy all PC partitions.
You can’t use MacDrive Disk Manager to resize a partition and retain the contents. The only way to resize a partition is to delete and recreate it at a different size, which will result in the loss of any files in the original partition.” So I’m working on trying to understand if this will or won’t partitian one of my partitians. There has got to be an easier way to set up a partitian on my PC to install OSx86. This is getting ridiculous.
used XP diskpart utility from run command.
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Install_On_A_Partition_Simple_And_Accurate
After creating the partitian I then booted into my OSx86 10.4.4 DVD and disk utility. I then had to delete the OSx86 I just created and then partitian that hard drive to install. Now I have to figure out how to boot into OSx86 from XP?
Just to check it out, I installed it from this dvd, i bought at Pantip Plaza in Bangkok ;o) , it took 7 hours to ionstall but it runs fine, there is this thing with the double booth, you need spf2 on diskette, try that later. to run OSX nect to XP.
There re a few things
1. IT DOESN’T FIND MY ETHERNET ADAPTER- SO NO INTERNET
2. THE VIDEOCARD IS ONLY POSSIBLE IN 1024X786 MODE, no more options
3. BOOTUP TAKES A LONG TIME, AND LOOKS LIKE LINUX
but it runs
when i got these things fixed then i make a nice clone.
AND GET BACK INTO MY MACBOOK
CHEERS
Oh by the way
you dont need to format your partition, or anything
while OSX installer is running just goto the menu UTILITIES
and format it from there directly into MAC OSX journaled
Perfect!! And then this harddrive will show up as a possible to install to
EASY DOES IT
In my opinion you don’t need to make a virtual drive
just make another partition on your hard disk with Partition magic
or in windows-> rightclick: my computer > menage
etc.
You only need this dvd, or you doing something wrong.
thanks to maxxus, i popped the 10.4.4 patched DVD into a compaq presario s5300nx and about an hour later, i had osx86 running, with sound, ethernet, even a wireless logitech keyboard / mouse. using the wiki’s boot.ini / chain0 tutorial, i soon had my machine booting into XP on hda1 and osx86 on hdb1. everything is wonderful.
now a question. being a careful person, i installed osx86 on a second hard drive. now i want to move it to hda2, so i can take my 10 gb hdb and put it back into an old celeron the kids use. partition magic won’t let me clone hdb1 (HPFS+) to hda2, the osx disk utility won’t let me do it either. what tool (XP, OSX or linux) can i use?
thanks again to maxxus for all the fun.
Got tiger 10.4.4 working dvd playback very choppy card is a nvidia geforce FX 5700 with 128mb also in sys properties its clocks it as having 256mb of ram on board any driver fix or soloutions ???(also see’s my cpu as 3.2 ghz) and is only 2.5ghz ps has apple any way of tracing you online using this patched OS?.
there simply is no better way to prove your intelligence than by calling everyone you disagree with a faggot.
I fully support the OSX86 project. Mac hardware is overpriced. Perhaps I have an anarchistic cyberpunk ideal that some may consider unrealistic, but the advantages of technology authorized or unauthorized are gifts to those intelligent enough to reap the benefits. The type of user that this kind of “cross-platform” engineering attracts still amounts to hobbyists regardless of the fact that the disc is bootable.
Steve Jobs is not going to “get real” about the prospect of OS X on WinTel machines. Apple’s market enjoys the hardware designs, software integration, and software support. Not a fanboy. Just a satisfied customer who can see the value on both sides of the fence.
@JC
That’s the most intelligent view I’ve read here.
To add, I AM a proud Mac user, I really enjoy using my Mac - I am very productive on it but I have to take a realistic view. This is my third Mac and it’s only just come out of it’s Applecare period and now hardware faults are occuring, AGAIN. Both of my previous machines died just out of warranty, one caught on fire!
So can I AFFORD to keep buying expensive hardware? No I don’t think so, paying more is NOT giving me more quality apart from the 1st class OS X experience. After my Mac mini finally dies, I think I’ll be coming here and installing OS X on a generic PC laptop, I should get more than 13 months usage from it, if not I can replace a PC much more quickly than a ‘real’ Mac (which to be honest, since the transition to Intel, is now just a fancy PC in a Mac case anyway)
Hi all, i just want to check has anyone have try testing using Acer ferrari 4005 successfully installing Mac OS X 10.4.3 or 10.4.4? Is it possible to do it?
Installed my 10.4.4, it does’nt boot. i can boot to the OS using the Installation dvd. Boot from the DVD and after the Count Down it boot the OS from the HDD. any Help
Hi I’m having the same problem, can boot the OS from the CD. Let it count down and don’t press any key it will start the OS.
You probably have something in your boot file that shouldn’t be there. Use the DVD to boot into OSx86 and then load up /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist in your favorite text editor. Look for this:
<string></string>
If you have anything in-between the string tags, remove it.
Yo can edit file boot
http://kb.osx86spain.com/-/OSx86%20spain%20KB/BA057B51-F781-4BA5-AA4D-4C68724F53C4.html
I have been reading all the posts on this site and quite frankly I am suprised at how far behind you guys are in getting OS X running on your x86 systems. I have had OS X running on my system, HP Pavillion zd8230us, ATI Mobility X600, DVD R- Rx Dual layer, Full QE & CI working as well as OpenGL. Full switchable resolutions 1440×900, for about 2 months now. I am quad booting Vista, XP, OS X 10.4.7 and Linux Mepis. All of these are working flawlessly and I must say that OS X is the fastest out of them all. It is my OS of choice. Xbench is faster than a Mac overall it comes in at 108. So I don’t think I will be buying a Mac any time soon as my Hacintosh is a much better performer.
Oh and by the way updates do work as long as you don’t do the system updates, all the others work.
bigal, this post was written about five months ago, so things are dated. Before I bought a real Mac I was running 10.4.6 with everything working also.
Is the mac os on a pc compareably as fast as a real mac?
Also,
Can someone give me a stats/comparisons chart that would show what PC rig you have w/ Mac OSX 10.xx.. and compare it’s speed & performance with a real Mac–G4, @ x MHz & x Ram?
k-Dalz, Mac on a PC will run as fast as a real Mac using comparable hardware. The only things that could slow you down are if your graphics card does not support Core Image or Quartz Extreme, or your processor does not handle SSE3 instructions.
No sound in moste cases. I’m now running jaS 10.4.7 and have audigy 2. Anybody know any drivers that will work! Thanks
im still having problems with the error at the end of the installation saying that there were errors installing software…
any help?
Hi I am trying VMWare too as humbledough posted. I don’t knwo what is the chain0 trick in boot.ini. Can somebody explain please? I am using the 10.4.4 DVD ISO and VMWare 5.5.0. My boot is stuck.
Load of /sbin/launchd, errno 88, trying /sbin/mach_init
Load of /sbin/launchd failed, errno 88
Help is appreciated
I’ve installed the MAC OSX 10.4.3 on my dell c840 and it works faster than XP pro with only 256mb Ram, but I can’t seem to be able to install some software on it. I’ll try the new Patched DVD 10.4.4 and see if that works! Does this have rosseta on X11 app because that’s not working right
Hello,
Please, people, can anybody tell me where i can download MacOSX86 for PC? Please
Thank you
Sasha L.
well, nice post i am eger to test that..
but how to get one is Downloading from torrent is leagel ?
Wher eto buy one ?
I like timeMechine in OS X 10.5
its a greate idea from Apple
i am an avid mac user, ive had about 10 macs in the last 15 years, and i have to agree the prices of apple hardware has gotten way out of hand. i currently own a second gen G5, and i cant afford a new mac pro and the required software updates. ie photoshop, illustrator, finalcut etc. on the other side of the fence ive had only 3 atx pc cases in the same amount of time because i only have to change the hardware to get a better machine. yes i would love to run osx on my x86 box, i would jump at the chance to build a 8 core intel box for half the price of an apple box.
Well, I have a problem with installing that too. I have 10.4.6 x86 install DVD. I put it into my machine, trying to boot from this.
Then gray screen with Apple logo appears, a spinning line on the bottom of the screen says that installator is being loaded. But then, an error icon apperas. (a circle with a line through) and loading stops. Do you have any ideas, what could I do?
i picked up a newer version and cant seem to get passed “System config file ‘/com.apple.Boot.plist’ not found”
here are my specifications:
Abit AB9 PRO motherboard
1GB Ram
Intel Core 2 Duo
ATi X1550 512MB gfx
email me if you have a solution at:
scoop_987@hotmail.co.uk
or
lewisferguson_011@msn.com
In my com.apple.Boot.plist it says this:
Kernel Flags
-v -legacy
Should the section between the string tags be taken out?
DID THAT WORK FOR YOU? I’M HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM ON AN HP/COMPAQ D530
NEWSFLASH IBOOKS AND POWERBOOKS DONT RUN OFF INTEL - THEY RUN OFF PPC. ALSO APPLES GRAPHICS CARDS ARE MADE BY INTEL (FOR MACBOOK) and the apple laptops have right click built into the touchpad….. who uses buttons….this is the 21st century… where touch sensitive hardware is used.
the special thing is that the OS is specifically designd to run off apples custom mainboards, and the hardware attatched in the perfect combination for computing excellence.
thats the difference shitbag. now go buy a dell dimension and piss off back 2 windows vista.
oh and what does the plants have to do with the manufactured products. Creative ZEN’s are made in the same factory as nokia mobile phone chargers - where’s the similarity there?
I downloaded the torrent for the mac osx dvd patched.
And i burned that iso to a DVD.
And it booted fine on my PC.
But this setup is taking awhile to run.
It currently shows an apple logo, with a loading circle on the bottom.
I don’t know if it will work for sure, but its taking very long, anyone else getting this problem?
I think the same thing!
h0W can i get through the plist thing
just want to play with it see if i like it
and no idea which version osx i got it says mac instal dvd
tried only 1 dvd rom and 1 hd and its working now finally got out of that ‘/com.apple.Boot.plist’ not found all i did was unplugged one of my dvd rom and just put one dvd rom master and one 10000 rpm 30g 3 partition for xp vista and last osx its installing right now but i dont know if its gonna go all the way
gonna try quad boot
“System config file ‘/com.apple.Boot.plist’ not found”
try 1 dvd optical drive and 1 hd
it should work its instaling on mine right now
would this installation be more easier to success if using Mac OS X?
My plan is to Quad Boot:
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Ubuntu 7.04
and Mac OS X
I have the first three set up and working perfectly,
But when coming to installing OS X I get:
/com.Apple.boot.plist Not Found
on booting the install DVD.
Running through VMware works upto a certain point,
then the virtual machine crashes.
I have had bad experience with VMware in the past,
and would much rather a straight forward solution,
any help would be greatly appreciated.
If anyone can help me boot vista into pearpc thanks ahead ok bye.
I can not download torrent link because my admin was block it.
Can any one give me direct link, please?
Thanks.
Please send direct link to my email jacklee_master@yahoo.com
can anyone send me a direct link for osx86 on my email?
ryan.hadar@yahoo.com
much appreciated
yo thomas or whoever else knows the links, please send them to my email address: Ajr901@gmail.com
Great news. How long has it been since 10.4 came out. We’ll for now I’ll continue to run my OS X 10.5 Leopard VMX. image on VMware. Just no sound. That sucks.
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