Sorry it has been such a long time. However, now finals are over and I actually have some time to compile a couple postings.
Last week I got OS X to work on my PC. I browsed the torrent sites and found a certain .iso image called iPC 10.5.6 or something like that. It has tremendous amounts of driver support included. After going through the installation, I booted up from the DVD one more time, hit F8 to bring up the command prompt and entered rd=disk0s3 to boot through the DVD to the OS X partition. After the initial bootup and setup completed I can now successfully boot into OS X anytime from my hard drive. Not too shabby! The only thing on my computer that doesn’t work in OS X (that I would use – I’m not including my media card or Expresscard slots) is my wireless internet. But that’s kind of a big deal for me.
Here is my initial take on OS X-
- It’s wicked easy to use. No wonder MacBooks are the computer of choice for 18-year old college girls nationwide
- It looks great! I love the backgrounds, it really shines on my no-glare screen, and it appears very polished.
- The dock is good-kind of. I wish there were more ways to customize it, and the new Windows 7 taskbar kind of blows it away when switching between programs. Hint, hint Apple.
- It’s fast. Period.
- And I like the search feature. It beats Windows by a small margin.
So it works! If you want to know how to set up a triple-boot or double-boot system read these tutorials and then shoot me an e-mail with any questions. I’d be glad to help.
Mike Sherwood
June 13th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Hey, i want to install OS X on a Maxtor USB 500GB NTFS external hard drive and when i want to, boot it with Vista & 7. Do you have any ideas how to do this (i know it is possible), whilst you think about it can you tell me which OS X iso i need to start downloading? Also, my DVD drive doesn’t work atm so take that into consideration too
Cheers MSherwood
June 13th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
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June 16th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Sorry for the wait, Uni has me up to my neck in work at the moment. You are right, it is possible. First of all download the iPC OSX86 10.5.6 .iso file, that seems to have the most driver support. In order to install it you’ll need a hefty USB drive (probably more than 5 GB) to put the installation files on, and a program to make your drive bootable. Then mount the .iso in Windows and copy the installation files to the USB. Make sure your BIOS is set to boot from USB and go ahead and reboot. If everything goes according to planned you should be able to boot into the OSX install. You’re going to need to have all the nitty-gritty written down for all of your hardware to make sure you use the right Kext (driver) packages at the installation. I needed to know what model of pretty much everything I had (wireless card, sound card, ethernet, etc.) and even if my motherboard was ICH7, ICH9, you know. This part is trial and error sometimes. You should be able to install it pretty easily on the external hard drive, but booting from it is what I’m worried about. I’m not a pro at boot configs and getting one to work outside of the internal hard drive is beyond me. Hope this helped a little – if you need more help let me know.
June 18th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Thanks for that Mike, i’ll do what you suggested and i’ll let you know how things pan out