FunkiBluDawg

MacOS on PC

Yes. Its possible !!

I have a beautifully working MacOS (Ver 10.4.6 - Tiger) on my PC,
which multi-boots nicely along with Windows XP & SuSe Linux.

Its so good that I will be among the people rushing to buy MacOS if ever Apple
decides to sell it for PCs. This means what you are going to read below is only
meant for enthusiasts and contains information available publicly.



What you need :

• A PC (Preferrably Intel, but AMD is also fine) as long as the processor supports
  atleast SSE2 instructions (Check using CPUz)
  
• An MacOS installation DVD (Available from popular torrent sites, search for Myzar)
• Partition Management Software (Partition Magic or dd for windows etc.)
• Atleast 6GB of space.

Settings up your harddisks :
Lets assume that you have Windows installed already on your harddisk.

First of all you need to create a partition for MacOS. Using you Partition Manager, create
a "Primary Partition" of the type af (file system format used by MacOS known as HFS+).
This partition needs to be atleast 6 GB (you can convert the free space of your existing partition for the new HFS+ partition).

Take the installation DVD (which you downloaded earlier) and boot your pc from it.
Now this is where things get interesting.


MacOS will either recognise your harddisk and therefore your existing HFS+ partition and will prompt you to install on it. OR it will not recognise your harddisk/partitions and will not
proceed to install.

If it does not, there may be several reasons, most common ones are
Your partitions are not setup right. HFS+ needs to be a primary. (Not extended/logical)
Your hardisk controller is not recognised (SATA ?)
In this case, you can either try a more roundabout route. Boot windows.
Install VMware to setup a FreeBSD system with a raw file of 6GB. Now install
MacOS onto this VMWare image. Once installed find out the additional components
need for your PC configuation and edit your VMWare insttallation accordingly.
Once done, copy the VMWare image onto your HFS+ partition.

If it does find your hardisk/partitions, make sure you select your HFS+ partition and install on it. Hopefully it should continue till the end successfully.




TODO rest./

posted by FunkiBluDawg @ 8:33 pm