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 >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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. > 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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