Comments on: Mac OS X Tiger on my PC +Win XP dual boot

By: FrozenTime

FrozenTime — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:20:41 +0000

Hahah nice. Yet to try though =) Mac OWNS! Im using a Fujitsu Life Book Tablet PC. Don’t think anyone has tried it here before. Gonna try. Will tell results soon =)

Intel Pentium(R) M
processor 1.73GHz
512MB RAM
XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
80GB Hard Drive

By: Sanaz Shahbazzadegan

Sanaz Shahbazzadegan — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:07:39 +0000

I installer OSX Tiger and Vista and I use Acronis OS Selector. Every thing works great with OSX…the sound, internet..everything!

But if you want to load vista and OSX Tiger, after creating your FAT 32 partition, go to diskpart:

1 - List disk
2 - select disk x (x= you number of disk)
3- list partition (it will show you the partitions on your selected disk)
4- select partition x (select the partition you made for OSX)
5 - id=AF (it will change the format of you partition to AF so you can install ypur OSX Tiger on it)

6 - active (it will activate the partition to be the first to boot up)

and the rest is easy with the istaller

bye

By: tqmz

tqmz — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:51:27 +0000

Your spec similarly to mine.

To install OS X for PC:
1. partition your hard disk, preferably with GParted Live CD or Acronis Disk Director or Partition Magic.
2. Format the partition for OS X as FAT32
3. Make active the desired OS X partition
4. Use the properly burned ISO of OS X while booting and make sure you’re booting from CD.
5. Follow Mac installation instruction.
6. Mac ask for partition but you dont have the disk available in the menu. Re-format the partition. Open DISK TOOL app. (menu above) and format FAT32 partition into Mac OSX (Journaling)
7. Close disk tool and select the Mac OS X formatted disk.
8. Never allow default setting, choose to customize the installation.
9. Choose the required patch for your CPU, GPU drivers etc.
10. Wait till everything installed, restart.
11. Finished.

By: Satish

Satish — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:38:52 +0000

hey i am satish i have downloaded mac ox 10.4.9 ,my system config is
intel965ry motherboard,core 2duo processor 6300@1.86gh,1gb of ddr2 ram,ati radeon x500 series,160gb sata hdd ,dvd r but dont now how to install mac on it can some 1 plz help me.

By: dzunglv

dzunglv — Fri, 25 May 2007 05:54:29 +0000

okay, thanks. Now it worked and i surely have read an outdated one. ^^

By: tqmz

tqmz — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:49:09 +0000

@dzunglv

Are you getting “HFS partition error” during the boot?

In my experience, this happend when the active partition wasn’t OSX86 partition or Darwin being installed in the other partition.

There’s a simple fix for this error, (sudo HG^$^^78q, sorry I forgot) just Google it man.

To avoid this error simply make the OSX86 partition active, and hide all other partitions before installing it. Thus will make Darwin installed within OSX86 partition. Reactivate all partitions after OSX86 working properly. With these configuration Acronis OS Selector can easily make the dual boot menu.

If you read that all disk must be free then you probably have read an outdated article.

By: dzunglv

dzunglv — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:00:53 +0000

i tried to erase only 1 partition for Mac OS, but it did not work. I’ve read that all disk must be free; so how can i keep my Windows Xp to work with both OSs ? Can ya tell me?

By: tqmz

tqmz — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:35:18 +0000

Perhaps a little advice when considering a new hardware (chipset/graphic card, etc.) to buy.

Check the hardware that has been reported works with auto install driver available.

Me too end up buying a new hardware that didn’t work. I only figured out the x1900 series yet never made fully working yet due to the architecture after installing OSX 10.4.8.