ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 OSX installation pt4: Post install LAN enable and final reboot.

[davidzgame]

would snow leopard work to install? i dont have the osx 10.5.6, only snow leopard disk

[jasoninja]

which osx do i need?

[lmrecorders]

I useed a retail OSX v10.5.6

[ji3200]

@lmrecorders which key do i have to press for bio setting screen on new computer??

[davidzgame]

is it worth it? so does it have i movie and stuff like that? and garage band?

[davidzgame]

where did u get leopard from? i dont want to spend $250 on it.. can u message me, i think i found one thats 3.65gb is it that size?

[lmrecorders]

You don't have to spend $250! I bought a retail copy of leopard at the University of California Long Beach book store for $99US. The install disk is 7.07GB.

[davidzgame]

does leopard work smoothly?

[lmrecorders]

It works fantastically smoothly. I use it mainly for final cut pro 7 and have no problems rendering long, complex projects.

[lmrecorders]

You might be able to use partitions but it would make the job less complex to use a second disk drive. Not only that but this install depends on creating an EFI partition which could interfere with the Win7 System Reserved Partition. To boot to OSX the system will boot first to Darwin on the EFI partition and then to OSX. The darwin boot is very fast so you don't really notice it but it happens before OSX. Until you are familiar with this install process I would advise using one drive for OSX.

[roxasnobody9]

ohh ok ill just buy a mac this pc costed me a fortune and i dont want to play around with ot

anyway why buy this expansive and heavy gear for a hackint0sh :P just buy a msi wind its 100% compatible

[lmrecorders]

I think a $50 hdd is a little cheaper than a Mac but that's just me. An MSI wind is not capable to do the work I do with this machine. Good luck.

[roxasnobody9]

naa its not the HDD thats the problem i dont want to fry the motherboard :P

[roxasnobody9]

@lmrecorders

Yo dude , i dont know if you remember me or not , Anyway got some good news for you . get a snow leopard 10.6.3 retail and the newest boot 132 from that insanely mac thread . installed it today worked out of the box FOR EVERYTHING INCLUDING MY GPU ( my gpu is a nvidia 285 maybe thats why.)

nice and solid Hackintosh pro

[chuckmusic09]

i have a mac G4 if i format the hard-drive with it can i just use the boot 132 cd and that OS X cd what out all of that.....i am just useing the mac G4 to format that hard-drive...i have a ((intel i7 940))

[lmrecorders]

It all depends on which OSX came with the G4. I think the i7 support was in later versions like 10.5.x. I am not an OSX expert. I just went out and bought a retail 10.5.6 DVD and the whole thing went rather smoothly considering all the steps I went through.

[roxasnobody9]

hey dude how to dual boot this with vista ?

[lmrecorders]

I dual boot Win7 with the darwin prompt. If you hit escape at the darwin prompt it will give you the option of entering another disk drive number. On my computer it's 82 and I can select windows by booting to System Reserved volume. It's not a fancy GUI and I've not tried using boot camp but that works completely fine. Make sure you install OSX on it's own physical HDD.

[roxasnobody9]

can u teach me how and what do u mean own physical HDD ? cant i make partitions ?

[gangsterman12000]

does this work on Asus Rampage II Extreme?????

[gizmo99uoft]

Have you gotten Time Machine to work ?