How to install mac on a intel machine ??

Question

I have comp with the config : intel dual core 3.0 + 1 gb RAM .... how to install mac on my pc .... coz when i insert any mac OS cd my DVD drive shows nothing is contained in the CD ..... How to overcome that problem or if theres any other way to do that ....

Answer 1

The copy of Mac OS X would be illegal to download and install, but you could check to see how compatible it would be from:

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

A standard Mac install DVD won't work. The problem you are having not reading the disc sounds like either 1.) Your DVD was not burned correctly. Try again at a lower speed, or 2.) Your drive is going bad.

Answer 2

First, make sure you have an x86/Intel Mac OSX DVD and not a PowerPC Mac OS X DVD. PowerPC processors work differently than Intel. You also have to make sure that your processor supports at least SSE2 instructions (SSE3 instructions and EMT64 instructions support are preferred). 1 GB of RAM is a good amount of RAM, doubling that would be good to do.

If you have the right OS X DVD and your processor meets the minimum requirements, then go Google "install OS X on a regular PC". There are several sites on the subject.

Answer 3

It won't work. Macs use Intel chipsets these days, but the motherboards manufactured for Apple are different from others. They don't have a BIOS, for one, and they have a special security chip on them. If the OS doesn't find the security chip, it won't install or run. Even if you find a cracked version, it will lack support for your hardware. If you enjoy writing device drivers for your hardware then you may be able to make it work. Otherwise, it will be a frustrating and painful experience.

Just buy a Mac. The Mac Mini starts at $600.00. Less if you're a student since they offer a student discount.

Answer 4

you should use virtualization technologies to run any Mac OS on your computing gadget. Your processor and ram are sturdy sufficient for a sixty 4 bit OS, so I propose you position in a sixty 4 bit version of Vista/7 and installation vmware/residing house windows digital computing gadget, and then you should have the means to run any Mac OS (utilizing vmware/residing house windows digital computing gadget)!

Answer 5

you need a mac to install mac software on. Apple made their DVDs to be read by MAC machines only.

Answer 6

You already know that you can't install OS X on anything but Apple hardware. It is illegal.

Buy a Mac if you want to run OS X!

Answer 7

you might need more RAM. Ive been thinking about doing this too but I haven't purchased OSX yet. As long as you have the intel version I don't see why you cant just install it like Linux or something..

Answer 8

i have Intel machine. D102.... mother board
1 GB ram, p4 3.06ghz but i am running Mac OS X 10.4.9 on my PC

i will give instruction:
get that Mac OS X 10.4.9 os and JaS.10.4.9.Combo.Update.Intel.SSE3

than try to install
First of all the whole process is illegal and you are not supposed to install OS X. The only way to do something like that is if you are an Apple Developer. So I am not responsible for your actions and I do not encourage you to follow this guide. (I don’t know why I am writing all these things, I think I am supposed..)

I installed on my PC which looks like this: Intel Core 2 Duo, EVGA 680i, 2 GB ram, Maxtor 160GB ATA drive (where I will put OS X), 2x SATA drives (Seagate and Western Digital), Seagate FreeAgent USB drive, Gainward 7900GS 512MB, NEC 7173, Plextor DVD-ROM, Logitech MX Revolution mouse and Logitech S510 keyboard mouse set.
I had also succeeded to install OS X (10.4.6 Goatsecx version)on my Laptop which is a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M7405 (SSE2) with some minor changes in the hole process.

Things that I used:

a) A prepatched OSX 10.4.8 install image (JaS) with the update for 10.4.9 included. (Don’t ask me where you can download OSX86, not in a comment)
b) A program to partition my drive. I suggest Partition Magic.
c) You need a processor that supports at least SSE2 to make this work.
You can check this with a program called CPU-Z http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php


And so what I did was:

Burn the image in an empty DVD. (I recommend Nero).

Creation of at least 6GB unallocated space on your hard disk,
I used 70GB.
In Partition Magic do the following:

Choose a Hard Disk
Click on ‘Resize/Move Partition
Move the slider to make the partition smaller and hit OK
Click on ‘Apply’
Close Partition Magic



Click ‘START > Run…’ and type ‘diskpart’ (without quotes)

Type the following in the command window that will open
(press enter after you typed in a line):

list disk
select disk X [Where X the number of your disk] (in my case was 0)
create partition primary id=af
list partition
select partition Χ [Where X the number of the partition that just been created, it says type unknown]
active (if this doesn’t work, try ’set active’ without quotes)


Inserting the OSX install disk and reboot. Boot from DVD and when the Darwin boot loader comes up press F8 and then write “–v”. Moreover if you have a 2xcpu processor write “–legacy” (I am not so sure about that. Many say that you have to use this, but for me it work without adding this flag in my boot. But if you have kernel panic or you cannot boot you have to use it every time unless you add it in ‘com.apple.boot.plist’ :scroll down for more info how to edit ‘com.apple.boot.plist’).

After a while you will come up with the install manager choose language and continue on the next screen. An introduction screen will pop up, click continue

On the top of the screen says ‘Utilities’; click it and then click the ‘Disk Utility’.

After it starts select hard disk and then the partition (mine was disk0s1). Press the ‘erase’ button. Set the format to ‘’Mac OS extended (journaled)” (if is not chosen) and name it whatever you want then hit ‘Erase’. When finished close the Disk Utility.

Back to the installation screen, only this time it will have the picture of a hard drive in it or you have to choose the drive that you have already named. Click on this Hard Drive and don’t forget to click on ‘customize’ to move on.

In this screen there are various extras you may or may not need to install OS X. It has an AMD processor option, an Intel option; choose which one is applying to you (and choose only one of the two). It will have various language supports; choose only the languages that you need the rest uncheck them. Then some printer support; again choose only what you want. X11 (I have never installed this, but it looks like a development kit for Apple developers), NVIDIA Titan/ATI drivers for graphics cards (Install only one if you need to) Moreover, as it was in my case, I install TiTan for NVIDIA and after the reboot I end up with a restart message. If somewhere in the options there is a choice between SSE2 or SSE3, pick only one, otherwise it will mess something up. But if there is only one choice (SSE2/SSE3), that makes it easier. Also there are some additional fonts again choose only what you need. For the rest choose only what you need and read the comments of each choice at the bottom of the screen, this step is crucial. This one screen can make or break your install, so choose wisely. If you screw something up its easy to start over so don’t worry.

After you’ve decided what to install click the button. OSX will install after a thorough disk check. Unless time is an enormous factor, don’t skip the disk check! It checks the DVD for errors, so if is corrupted it will save you a lot of time.

Now it will take a while to finish, the length of time depends on your hardware configuration. For me it took a little more than a half an hour (in my laptop took little bit more than an hour). Then OSX will need to restart (Mine stopped in a black screen so I needed to press reset). Remove the installation DVD and go through the setting up your Mac steps.

From now on the installation has finished cross your finger that everything went well (in my case they didn’t)

Now you need to configure the bootloader for duaol boot. If you can boot Windows then things are much easier; You have to copy “CHAIN0” from the Mac OS X installation DVD to your windows root (C:\) and then open the boot.ini file in a Notepad (it is also in root C:\). In case that you can find it you have to “Tools” then “Folder Options”, “View” tab and to check the “show hidden files and folders” and to uncheck the “hide protected operating system files (Recommended)”. Add this to your boot.ini file “C:\chain0=”Mac OS x86″.
If you can’t boot windows or you don’t want to use Darwin bootloader you can use WinGrub; it’s an open source boot loader which is really handy.
You can find it here: Grub
Here is the process to install WinGrub:

If your Windows installation is on the first hard drive (or only hard drive), it has an identifier of (hd0). If Windows is on the first partition of the first hard drive, its identifier is (hd0,0)
If OSX is on the second partition of the first hard drive, its identifier is (hd0,1)
(hdx,y) where “x” is the hard drive (starting with 0) and “y” is the partition (starting with 0)
If your situation does not match the above, adjust the (hdx,y) identifiers below

i) Open WINGRUB, use the “Base Setup” menu item, click the “Copy stage files” checkbox, then “OK”.
ii) Use “Install Grub”, install GRLDR using the BOOT.INI method
iii) Verify that things have gone well so far. Open the “menu.lst” file (might be in C:\grub) and look for something like this:

title Boot Windows NT/2K/XP
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

iv) Reboot, and verify that you can get into Windows.
v) Reboot again and when it gets to the grub console, press ‘c’ to enter command mode
vi) Type the following command (replace (hd0,0) and (hd0) with correct identifiers if necessary)

root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)

vii) If all goes well, GRUB will be installed to MBR (the GNU way), reboot
viii) Using GRUB to boot your Windows NT/2K/XP
ix) Edit “menu.lst” as follows (remember to use correct identifiers if different from what is written)

timeout 10
title Windows XP at (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

title OSx86 at (hd0,1)
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader - -force +1

x) Use “Install Grub”, “Remove” grub from BOOT.INI “

Now if you can boot OS X, unzip the JAS combo update follow the instructions and apply the update.


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