Sorry I forgot to add one more thing that you might consider to be important.
I’m not sure whether doing something like this would be against Apple’s EULA. I know that running a hackintosh certainly is against their EULA and that this specific hack has similarities to running a hackintosh so if this was important to you I guess you’d have to read the EULA which would probably take a very long time. Regards Ruben > Hi Gary. > > I agree with what Daniel and Ronni have already said about being very > cautious when it comes to these things but personally, if it were me, I’d be > happy to try it out on the strict provisor that I had the time to commit to > making it work and I would definitely do it on a completely separate HDD in > addition to having bootable backups. > > I haven’t spent a great deal of time looking into this specific kind of hack > but I do have a reasonable understanding about the hackintosh world (booting > Mac OS on windows hardware). From what gather this hack is based around > using a custom boot loader (which resides on a hidden partition of your HDD > that your install is contained on) because you need to have a 64bit one for > mavericks and the native one is only 32 bit. The other part of it probably > involves changing some info so that the computer thinks it’s a MacPro 2.1 and > therefore supported by mavericks. > > I wouldn’t expect there to be any potential for cross over trouble if you > kept everything isolated on separate drives and had an extensive backup > system but I would definitely want to fully research what I was doing before > doing it. Daniel has already suggested that you might be able to get the > features you want from ML which would be supported on your machine natively > and, as Ronni advised, you should really consider if it’s going to be worth > all the effort and the potential risk (even if very small) if you are using > this machine for work. > > Hope this helps > Ruben > >> Hi Gary >> >> Yes, sometimes pays to read the forums for those sort of things before doing >> it,..as that gives you an idea of the "damages" it can cause. >> >> That MacPro will take Lion (10.7.5) OK, which would then give you iCloud >> syncing and a few other features as well, so that can be an option. >> Otherwise to get syncing with 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) you can do it in a round >> about way to get it "working" >> http://sayzlim.net/sync-icloud-contacts-calendar-snow-leopard/ >> >> Kind regards >> Daniel >> >> Sent from my iPhone 5 >> >> --- >> Daniel Kerr >> MacWizardry >> >> Phone: 0414 795 960 >> Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> >> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >> >> >> **For everything Apple** >> NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and >> as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of >> MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of >> warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any >> information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that >> permission by the author be requested. >> >> On 21/02/2014, at 4:59 PM, gdorn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 21/02/2014, at 3:45 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Gary, >>>> >>>> You Mac Pro was Introduced August 2006 - Discontinued Jan. 2008. >>>> The Maximum (supported) OS is Mac OS X 10.7.5 >>>> >>>> I personally would NOT recommend 'hacking' to install Mavericks on an >>>> unsupported machine, especially if it is your work machine... >>>> >>>> Read all the comments on the forums from people who have attempted this. >>>> If you do decide to attempt any of the below 'hacks', make sure you backup >>>> first... have backups which include a bootable backup (& test you can boot >>>> from your backup) of your current system. >>>> >>> I admit I haven't read all the forum comments. >>> >>> Advice understood and accepted >>> >>> The shiny black thermal tinny ( new mac pro) is looking kinda attractive. >>> >>> ps I suppose there is no other way to have syncing with Snow leopard and >>> iCloud then? >>> >>> chow >>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Ronni >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 21 Feb 2014, at 2:22 pm, gdorn <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi >>>>> >>>>> I'm was making progress to install mavericks on macpro 1,1 (2- 2.66) 13 >>>>> GB RAM, ATI Radeon 5770 + Nvidia Gforce 7300 GT- but alas the installer >>>>> says its unsupported. >>>>> >>>>> A search suggest there are workarounds, with instructions on how to do it >>>>> vi a number of ways. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://superuser.com/questions/704751/how-to-upgrade-mac-pro-1-1-from-os-x-10-6-8-to-os-x-10-9-mavericks >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1rsp3q/install_mavericks_on_older_mac_pro_11_21_20062007/ >>>>> >>>>> http://retrocosm.net/2014/01/04/mac-pro-11-and-mavericks/ >>>>> >>>>> http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1685804 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Is any of these methods a recommended thing to do, has anyone else (on >>>>> this list) done it ? >>>>> >>>>> are there any dangers to running these hacks to get mavericks to install ? >>>>> >>>>> can I install it on a separate hardisk ( I have 3 installed) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> thanks for any advice or recommendations >>>>> >>>>> chow >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> gary dorn >>>>> [email protected] >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> >>> gdorn >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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