divshare
esnips
mailbigfile
myotherdrive
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box.net
mihd.net
depositfiles
acrobat.com
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Virtual Classrooms
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zorap addon to ning
acrobat.com
http://www.mikogo.com/Welcome.aspx
https://www.yugma.com/install-yugma.php
http://www.dimdim.com/ (20 people limit but it's open source)
http://www.diarised.com/
http://vyew.com/site/
http://www.download.com/MeetFlex-Online-Meeting-Client-Software/3000-2075_4-10510357.html
http://meeting.zoho.com/home.do
4shared
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Great Help For Web Designers
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http://www.vizu.com/index.html
http://www.mediabuilder.com/
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
http://www.coffeecup.com/password-wizard/
http://ovenfreshweb.com/software/
http://www.yourminis.com/
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/externalhtml.shtml
http://www.widgetbox.com/tag/blogosphere?m=50s=TOP_RATED
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http://www.templateyes.com/
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http://www.google.com/webmasters/
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http://www.yourminis.com/
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/externalhtml.shtml
http://www.widgetbox.com/tag/blogosphere?m=50s=TOP_RATED
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Born Into Brothel .... Have to Die in Brothel too???
Today in newspaper i read that famous born into brothel documentary makers didn't bother to keep their promises. While shooting the inner Sonagachi scenes they used a few children to take the photos and videos with a promise for them that they wont let these children go into the same profession. But they are nowhere now. Their work has finished, and their promise too. They didn't provide any money to the children and in truth one of those has joined the line already. This is how those rich foreigners use innocent poor indians.... I hate such people.
A new phone I bought today...
Huawei C5320, provided by TATA indicom is the new site that I bought today. And in my opinion it's just great. It has 1 GB extendable memory, 1.3 megapixel camera, video recording, speaker, FM, FM recording, MP3/MP4, Free Mobile Web Browsing, Computer Internet connection ready at 1Rs/min call charge, Free Data Cable, Free Headphone and all this only at Rs 3999 only!!!
Monday, August 4, 2008
Flash Website Builder software free
Great software builder totally free http://www.download3k.com/Install-TrendyFlash-Site-Builder.html
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Ubuntu Printing system amazed me
I just plugged in my printer HP Deskjet D2300 to the USB port and my Ubuntu detected and configured it and showed up to me "Your printer is ready to use". Now I printed a page and it again showed up "You are low on ink". Just like windows. Now I understand why the opensource community calls it as their alternative for windows VISTA.
Teen pup ... a ready operating system?
Based on evolutionary (?) puppy linux, this is a distro that has most of the needed applications (by a regular windows user) already inbuilt at the time of installation. Great? huh? Java, flash, multimedia codecs, favourite players already inbuilt? wow! but what happened to me when i opted for installing it?
1) The server at softpedia changes continuously making the download process a bit ( or a lot) awkward.
2) Either i got a corrupted .iso or it just didn't work on my Compaq SR1330IL box. I couldn't get it booted up from the iso
3)Now the main points...
a) It is based on older puppy so just can not install newer softwares from official puppy
repository
b) Doesn't have good hardware compatibility
And i nomore tried to work on it.
phew...
1) The server at softpedia changes continuously making the download process a bit ( or a lot) awkward.
2) Either i got a corrupted .iso or it just didn't work on my Compaq SR1330IL box. I couldn't get it booted up from the iso
3)Now the main points...
a) It is based on older puppy so just can not install newer softwares from official puppy
repository
b) Doesn't have good hardware compatibility
And i nomore tried to work on it.
phew...
What the F*ck???? virgin sex in india - a ritual???
Today I found this one on the internet. I dont know what to say. Read yourself...
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For sale: 13-year-old virgin
Thirty miles west of the Taj Mahal, on the road to the pink city of Jaipur, tourists on buses pass a sight that the guide books rarely mention.A mile beyond the town of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, where the highway is being widened to four lanes, traffic slows down for roadworks. But the workmen who lounge by their bulldozers have their eyes on something else - a cluster of makeshift shelters where girls, several under 18 and at least two younger than 15, can be seen strolling or sitting, in view of the dusty carriageway.
Tonight, one girl in particular is attracting attention as she sits on a stool by a fire so that she can be seen by passing vehicles. Her heavily made-up, striking face and beautiful pink sari make her look as if she were on her way to a party. But the truth is different. Suli, 14, is a virgin and a bidding war is being held for the right to be the first to sleep with her.
The collection of shelters where she lives houses 59 families, all members of the Bedia tribe, which has a long tradition of caste-based prostitution. Girls born here become prostitutes in a rite of passage into "adulthood" as routine as marriage is to the rest of Indian society.
The "first time" is a valued commodity for which the middle-class businessmen who pass this way are prepared to pay a premium.
The normal rate is 100 rupees (£1.30) but a virgin is sold to the highest bidder for anything over 20,000 rupees. If she is very pretty, the community would hope to get up to 40,000 rupees. For this, the man can have access to the girl for as long as he likes - several hours, days, or even weeks. When he tires of her, there is a celebration. Because it is considered unlucky for a girl to keep the money from her first time, it is spent instead on an extravagant party. Jewellery is bought for her and for her relatives, goats are slaughtered and alcohol runs freely. There is dancing, and offerings are made to the gods.
Once a girl has lost her virginity she cannot marry. The choice has been made and the community celebrates it - this is her non-wedding night.
Suli said she was happy to enter the trade. "I chose it," she said, though she admitted being "a little" frightened. "I do not know how it is going to be. I know other girls who are in the trade but I have not asked them how it is."She claimed it did not matter what the man looked like. "I will go with whoever pays the highest price," she said, before running off as her mother called her for supper.
Nita, a virgin in the hut next door, has four sisters, all prostitutes. She wears jeans and a skimpy top, and giggles a lot. One sister boasts that as Nita is particularly pretty, they hope to get 40,000 rupees (£600). "We have been offered 25,000, but it is not enough."
Nita is only 13 but has opted to follow her sisters into the trade. It is her own "choice", because, she giggled, "I won't have to do any housework."
But in avoiding making chapatis, Nita has signed up to a life in which she will deal with 20 to 30 clients per day, until she reaches her forties. After that, when she is no longer considered desirable, she will depend on any children she may have for support.
Two of her sisters, Ritu, 35, and Manju, 25, have built one of the few stone houses in their village, for which they paid the equivalent of £14,600, and are proud of their success. "There was a lot of poverty, we had nothing to eat," said Manju. "What you see now has come with hard work." They support 50 family members - 35 children and 15 adults.
Elsewhere in India, the birth of a boy is celebrated with dowries paid by the bride's family, one of the reasons given for the high abortion rate for female foetuses. But in the villages around Bharatpur there is a shortage of girls to marry, and the custom is for the boy's family to pay the girl's family a large lump sum before the wedding can take place.
Possibly because the money comes from prostitution, and because any granddaughters will be destined for the trade, the sums are high.
Ritu and Manju paid for four of their five brothers to marry, and now support their sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews.
They earn between 1,000 and 1,500 rupees a day. It was more before the government knocked down their shelters to make room for the highway.
"We need a shelter by the road," they said. "Tell the government to build us somewhere we can work. We used to have 25 or 30 clients a day, now the average is 10 or 15." They said they were able to keep their rates up because they could provide a nice room and running water for their clients, who are mostly married businessmen from Agra.
The prevalence of caste-based prostitution in certain tribes in the region - the Bawaria, Nuts, Bedias, Kanjars and Sansis - came to light after a raid on a brothel in Delhi. Now an attempt is being made to break the cycle by which the girls of each generation enter the trade.
Dr KK Mukerjee, a social work professor at the University of Delhi, who was commissioned by the government to research the scope of prostitution, has founded a group, known as GNK. Supported by Plan International, a child-centred community development agency, the organisation has set up a hostel to look after prostitutes' children.
Many of the women said they did not wish their daughters to follow them into the trade. Ritu and Manju each have a daughter, whose fathers were clients. "My daughter will get educated, and not enter this profession," said Ritu. "I have seen what it is like. I don't want it for her."
A young boy at the hostel told proudly how he had persuaded his grandmother not to push his aunt into prostitution. "My grandmother said that she would kill herself if my aunt did not go into the trade and earn money," he said. "But I persuaded her, and my aunt got married."
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(copyright of this article belongs to admins of this page : http://kendavenport.typepad.com/thevirginityblog/2008/04/for-sale-13-yea.html
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Team Viewer -- Great remote sharing Desktop software
facing computer problem???
ask your friend to control your desktop from far far away using this thing
http://www.teamviewer.com/download/TeamViewer_Setup.exe
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FlashGet-- a great torrent app for windows and linux under wine
1) it can give a choice to download selected files only from a torrent
2) it can run under wine
3) it is fast enough with this addon http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Download-Managers/Flashget-Hack.shtml
http://down6.flashget.com/flashget190en.exe
2) it can run under wine
3) it is fast enough with this addon http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Download-Managers/Flashget-Hack.shtml
http://down6.flashget.com/flashget190en.exe
Friday, August 1, 2008
mac
Many of the guides for installing OSX Tiger are complicated and use linux. You can install OSX using public-domain free windows only tools. Leopard instructions and links included as well.
If you wish to install OSX tiger to your intel machine or usb drive, you can follow these few steps. Be careful because you can kill your hard drive if you are not careful.
You will need either a seperate hard drive (seperate partition will not do) or an external hard drive. Whatever extra hard drive you use will be completely replaced by osx and you will lose all information on that drive.
1. Authorized users should obtain the OSX files from Apple. It is illegal to obtain them from torrent sites by searching under the following keywords: "VMWare files for patched Mac OS X Tiger Intel"
2. Unrar these files to the root of your C: drive
3. Download Forensic Acquisition Utilities
4. Unzip these files and copy dd.exe to the root of c: drive as well
Note: the dd.exe program is used to write the image to your spare hard drive or external hard drive. The command is the following:
dd if=c:\tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\PhysicalDriveSomething
PhysicalDriveSomething should be replaced with your real physicaldrive (PhysicalDrive1, PhysicalDrive2, etc.). What your hard drives or usb drives are labelled is not always obvious. So I use WMI to figure this out. If you don't need it, don't get it. It's free... and it may prevent you from killing your wrong hard drive.
5. Download WMI Tools from Microsoft
6. Open WMI Browser Object
7. Allow block content and click the OKs until it loads
8. Select Win32_SystemPartitions.PartComponent in the left column
9. In the right column right-click on the drive device id (Disk #0, Partition #0, etc) and select Go to Object
10. The device window will open and click the associations tab
11. Exploring with this tool you should be able to match drive letters (Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID="C:") to each physicaldisk reference (Win32_DiskDrive.DeviceID="\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0")
Click for larger version:
12. Now that you know the physicaldrive label for your extra internal or external drive, you can drop to the root of your c: drive and run the command. Be sure to replace the physicaldrive text with the physical drive you determined above. If you use the wrong one, you will erase your primary hard drive.
dd if=c:\tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\PhysicalDrive
13. The command will appear to hang but you will notice your extra harddrive cranking away. It's going to do this for 15min to hours. Just let it run.
14. Once it is done, reboot and set the osx drive to your boot drive through your bios.
15. If your hardware is compatable, you should boot to OSX.
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1. an Ubuntu Linux Live CD: you can get it, or you can download it… it’s free. A valid alternative to Ubuntu that I found is Knoppix STD: use it if you’ve problems with Ubuntu;
2. VmWare Workstation it’s a commercial application, but a free trial is available;
3. The Deadmoo’s OS X Linux distro: this is available on P2P networks, usually under tiger-x86.tar.bz2 filename. I want to remember again that you’ve no right to download and to use it, if you don’t have a valid Apple’s OS X Licence.
- Boot from Ubuntu (of Knoppix) Live CD;
- Open a Terminal Window, get administrative rights (it should be sufficient to enter the command “sudo su“)… and type:
cfdisk /dev/hda
- The CFdisk utility will start: choose the partition where you want to install OS X (it should be the second one, but please make attention!) and choose “TYPE”. Now write “AF” (without quotes, of course) as type, and confirm changes choosing “WRITE”. The partition you chose will be erased and it’s type will be set to AF (Apple Format).
Now reboot, go back to Windows XP, install and open VmWare.
Create a new “FreeBSD” virtual machine. When asked to choose the primary hard drive for the virtual machine, choose your phisical hard disk; Also add a second hard drive to the virtual machine: the virtual drive inside Deadmoo’s archive; insert your Ubuntu CD and make sure that your phisical DVD/CD-rom reader is enabled in the virtual machine.
Then start the virtual machine and press on ESC as the machine begin, to enter boot menu: choose to boot from CD. Ubuntu should start booting in the virtual machine’s window. On the contrary, if you see Windows starting, immediately turn off the virtual machine and check CD-Rom settings (in this case, the CD boot has not started and your Windows XP is going to start into itself!).
When Ubuntu is ready, open a terminal window and type a command like this:
dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hda2/ bs=8192
hdb (2nd hard drive) should be the mounted Deadmoo’s image: our source;
hda2 should be the 2nd partition of the 1st hard drive (our phisical one): the destination.
CHANGE HDB1 and HDA2 with YOUR SETTINGS!
If you’re not sure about partitions, type:
fdisk /dev/hda -l
to get a list of your connected hard drives and relative partitions identifiers.
The process will take about 5-10 minutes. At the end, you can shut down the virtual machine.
Download this file.
It contains a file named chain0. Extract it to the root of your C:\ partition and add the following line:
C:\chain0=”Mac OS X”
to your C:\boot.ini file.
Now reboot your PC and choose Mac OS X at the boot list screen. Then the “Darwin boot” will ask you to select the partition with Mac OS X installed: select it with arrow keys.
Now try to type -s and then enter. If everything goes ok, at the prompt type:
sh /etc/rc
passwd curtis
passwd root
and enter your new password when asked. If anything is wrong, try to boot with -x or without arguments.
Please take note that sometimes it’s needed to boot several times (with -s, -x, or with no arguments) to get OS X work… I don’t know the reason, but it happens!
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So, you lust after a Mac, but can only afford a PC. You’ve heard the rumors, that there’s a version of Mac OSX (pretty, pretty, prrrreeeccciiooooooouuussssssssss) that can run on your crappy old Pentium 4 machine… well, it’s true! And now it works, without needing the special ‘MacIntel’ hardware.. All you need is a CPU with SSE2 (preferably SSE3), an external USB drive with at least 6 GB of space, an Ubuntu Live CD, bittorrent, and a massive downloaded file. W00t. :)
The detailed instructions are after the jump, and thanks to UNEASYsilence for the heads-up.
First of all, you can t install OS X on a new partition, it needs it s own drive. For this guide Im installing it on my Sony Vaio TR2A. Since I only have one harddrive, it means I m wiping windows and all my files in the process. You can easily follow the same steps but instead install it on a second harddrive in your PC. Here is how I have succesfully install OS X x86 NATIVELY on my laptop!
First of all, I think your CPU needs at LEAST sse2. For rosetta and to get itunes and other ppc apps working, you need sse3. My vaio has a Pentuim M, so no rosetta for me. Everything else works. Im posting this from the OS X x86 port of Firefox Wink
1. Download VMWare files for patched Mac OS X Tiger Intel from your favorite torrent site. (Hint: Use the search function).
2. Copy tiger-x86-flat.img from the archive to an external USB drive (it s 6gb)
3. Download Ubuntu Live CD (link) be sure you get the Live CD !!
4. Burn the ubuntu iso, stick it in your pc, and boot it! (make sure you have your bios set to boot to CD)
5. Once ubuntu boots and the gui finally comes up, hook up the USB drive you copied the 6gb image to. A window should pop up showing the contents of the drive. Take note of where its mounted. It should be /Devices/Yourdrivesvolumename
6. Open a terminal window and cd to that directory (/Devices/Yourdrivesvolumename). Do an ls to make sure you are in the right place (you should see the 6gb img file.
7. In the terminal window type:
dd bs=1048576 if=./tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/hda
Replace hda with the correct drive! If you only have one drive, its probably hda. Thats what mine was. You are about to erase this entire drive so make sure youve got it right and make sure you want to do this! Hit enter. It takes a while took my vaio about 9 minutes.
8. When it s done, remove the ubuntu disc and shut down the pc. Disconnect your usb drive. Thats it! When you power it back on, OS X should boot!
For whatever reason, mine hangs when its loading. If this happens to you, boot with the -x option (hit a button at the darwin screen when you boot your pc. enter -x and hit enter). Should work without any problems, and I dont see any restrictions being in safe mode.
You ll notice there is a login screen, and you dont know the password! This image was created by deadmoo and we can easily change his password. Reboot the machine again. Again, hit a button at the darwin screen. This time type -v and hit enter. At the command prompt screen type:
sh /bin/sh
passwd curtis
(change the password to what you like)
passwd deadmoo
(change the passwrod to what you like)
Done! Now reboot once more, and again use the -x option. Everything should boot, and at the login screen enter your new password.
WELCOME TO THE OS X x86 CLUB! Look ma, no vmware!
Note: If you are installing this in a PC and have multiple drives, you dont need to use an external drive or linux distro. Simply dd the image in the same manner to any physical drive in your pc, and when its done boot to that drive and it should work. For windows users, there is a port of dd for windows you can use here.
I messed around with this in vmware before installing natively, and I can tell you running it native is a million times faster! Its full speed. USB works, ethernet works, all the x86 software works. Enjoy!
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For help with Mac OS X on Intel, try osx86project. No need to email me!
How I Got Mac OS X Tiger for Intel (x86) Working Great:
September 8, 2005
Note: This guide has some material that is only for OS X for Intel 10.4.1, for installation and help with both the 8F1111 and 8F1099 seeds of 10.4.3 go here. The hardware section of this guide is good for all OS X for Intel seeds.
In this guide I will describe and teach you how to install Mac OS X Tiger for Intel (x86) on your PC, with as few problems as possible. After the installation we will work on getting your new Mac running as smooth as possible (SAP). I recommend that every one, even you they don't use any guides here, read the parts about fixing problems. They will help!
The Hardware
When I first heard about a successful installation of Mac OS X Tiger for Intel (x86) (A.K.A. OSX86) I started looking for cheap hardware that was supposedly 100% compatible with OSX86. I have since succeeded in finding the perfect combination. My plan was to use my existing case, cd rom drive, 30GB hard drive, and 512MB RAM stick, since almost every type of the aforementioned items where compatible with OSX86. For motherboard, CPU, and the like I bought these items:
1. Motherboard -- Reports are floating around that the motherboard in the machines using Intel that Apple was giving to developers was very close to a Intel D915GUX motherboard. That motherboard uses the following chip-sets:
IntelÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡ 915G Chipset
I/O Control
LPC Bus I/O controller
Audio
IntelÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡ High Definition Audio subsystem using the Realtek ALC860 audio codec.
Video
IntelÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡ GMA900 onboard graphics subsystem
LAN Support
The board provides one of the following:
Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Marvel* Yukon* 88E8050 PCI Express* Gigabit Ethernet Controller
10/100 Mbits/sec LAN subsystem using the IntelÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡ 82562EZ Platform LAN Connect (PLC) device
After some researching I found this motherboard: ASRock 775Dual-915GL Micro ATX Intel Motherboard. The 775Dual-915GL has a Intel 915GL Northbridge, and an Intel ICH6 Southbridge, the same stuff the Intel board has. The 775Dual-915GL has a Realtek ALC850 8 channel AC'97 audio codec chipset, pretty close to what the Intel board has. The 775Dual-915GL also has a fully compatible Ethernet chipset and SATA chipset (using SATA now, works great). The biggest thing about 775Dual-915GL is that it has an Integrated Intel Media Accelerator 900 video card, the only card that is fully supported by OSX86 because it is the one that the Intel Developer Machines (sold to developers by Apple) have. It has Core Image and Quartz Extreme automatically enabled on the installation of OSX86, and it supports high resolutions. Sure, the card is nothing compared to the latest and greatest from Nvidia and ATI, but the fastest of videos cards will run like a used bargain-basement model under OSX86 because there are no fully-functional drivers for any Nvidia or ATI cards in OSX86.
2. CPU -- Okay, so the word is that both AMD and Intel CPUs work great, as long as they are SSE2 and SSE3 enabled. You can use a CPU with just SSE2, except you will need to do some hacking to get only some PowerPC applications running, and your general computing experience will be slower with SSE2. If you don't have SSE2 and you try installing OSX86: when you bootup your computer it will lockup after it gets to the gray Apple logo.
After some research, I figured it would probably be best to get an Intel CPU for two reasons. (1) The low-end CPUs in the Intel line had SSE3, while low-end AMD CPUs had only SSE2, and for my tight budget that makes Intel my friend. (2) It appeared that most problems people were having were only happening with non-Intel products. The CPU I chose was: Intel Celeron D 330J 533MHz FSB LGA 775 Processor. I would recommend, if you happen to have some extra cash, that you get a Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading, note the bold.
Other Important Prerequisites
Now, onto the stuff that does not brake the bake. I installed OSX86 on my PC by transferring the "Deadmoo" image to my PC's hard drive using a hard drive case connected to my real Mac, I will get to how I did that later, a long with other ways that I did not try. Here is what you will need for my method (you will need all -- if not most -- of this stuff for other methods). I recommend you follow parts of this guide even if you don't use anything close to my method to install OSX86 on your PC.
Required Stuff
1. tiger-x86-flat.img Commonly referred to as the "deadmoo" image, it can be found on bittorent sites by searching for "VMWare files for patched Mac OS X Tiger Intel" or "tiger-x86-flat.img" or "tiger-x86.tar.bz2" Find this file! It is the disk image that contains OSX86.
2. There are now ways to install OSX86 on a PC with Windows already on it (linked guides to follow), but I would recommend a new hard drive with at least 8GBs storage.
3. Now, if you will be using the real Mac method you will need to get a hard drive case, if your Mac does not have a spot for a 2nd hard drive. Hard drive cases can be found pretty cheap.
4. If you will not be going the real Mac route, you will find that a lot of the guides ask for you to burn yourself a Linux LiveCD. I would use Ubuntu.
5. Remind myself to delete number 5.
The Guides (and most importantly, my guide)
There are many different guides for many different kinds of situations, some use one hard drive, with Windows install already on it, some assume you bought a new system and hard drive. This little guide, meant for use with a hard drive that can be erased, is as simple as it can get when it can get when it comes to the basic installation of OSX86 on your PC. Again, this guide is meant for those with real Macs. Thanks to Vinc0r for writing what my guide is based on. I am going to have to "translate" this guide for Linux users, I also have some really cool ideas about over-the-network installation. On with the show guide!
Before we get to the actual steps in the guide you need to:
1. Using any method you want, get your blank (or erasable) hard drive connected to a Mac.
2. Have the tiger-x86.tar.bz2 on your computer!
Lets get started!
1. We need to get the disk image out of tiger-x86.tar.bz2, unfortunately Stuffit Expander corrupts this particular compressed archive, so we will use the Terminal (in Applications/Utilities ).
Type this into a Terminal window: tar -jxvf then type a space, then drag the file "tiger-x86.tar.bz2" onto the window. Press "ENTER." The computer will show NO activity until it is done, this is normal! Depending on how fast you computer is, just go for a walk, or reread your favorite computer manual for an hour.
2. Okay, so now you should have a folder named "tiger-x86" in the same folder were the "tiger-x86.tar.bz2" file was. We have to make sure that the contents of that folder are not corrupt.
Go back into Terminal and type ls -l then type a space, then drag the "tiger-x86" folder into the Terminal window. Press "ENTER." You should now see this in the Terminal:
ls -l [where your tiger-x86 folder is]
-rw------- 1 [username]1474560 8 Aug 19:59 floppy.flp
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 6441910272 9 Aug 19:03 tiger-x86-flat.img
-rw------- 1 [username] 8664 9 Aug 20:00 tiger-x86.nvram
-rw------- 1 [username] 343 9 Aug 18:34 tiger-x86.vmdk
-rw------- 1 [username] 0 8 Aug 19:49 tiger-x86.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 [username] 1144 9 Aug 18:24 tiger-x86.vmx
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 32417 9 Aug 04:03 vmware-0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 30160 9 Aug 03:38 vmware-1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 32253 9 Aug 03:37 vmware-2.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 33479 9 Aug 20:00 vmware.log
If you don't have 6441910272 next to tiger-x86-flat.img you either downloaded some bad file from a bittorent site or you decompressed the archive wrong, and you should just stop right here.
If you do have 6441910272 next to tiger-x86-flat.img you are pretty much home-free! Time to install Tiger!
3. Go into Terminal and type df. Hit "ENTER." You should now see something like this in the Terminal window:
df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 147902984 71824768 75566216 49% /
devfs 185 185 0 100% /dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
1024 1024 0 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [243] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [297] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [297] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
/dev/disk2s2 204720 183224 21496 89% /Volumes/SomeVirtuaDisk
/dev/disk3s3 77903136 51976704 25926432 67% /Volumes/OSX86
My target disk is the "OSX86," so it is /dev/disk3s3, but don't use the "s3" bit because it is about partitions. I will call my disk /dev/disk3. Find out the /dev/disk of the disk you want to install OSX86 on, all info on this hard drive will be deleted. Just make sure you don't target the wrong disk, if you do you might wipe all data on your hard drives.
4. Before we copy the disk image to your hard drive unmount the target hard drive in the Finder by dragging its icon to the Trash. If you don't you will get a "device busy" error when copying.
5. Lets copy the disk image to your erasable/blank disk!
Open up a Terminal window and type "sudo dd if=" then drag the "tiger-x86-flat.img" image into the Terminal window, then type "of=/dev/disk43 bs=16k". Change the "/dev/disk43" to the location of the hard drive you got in step 3. Hit "ENTER." The computer will show NO activity until it is done, this is normal! Depending on how fast you computer is, just go for a walk, or reread your favorite computer manual for an hour. This might take a few hours. You might be able to change the "bs=16k." I do not know yet.
The Terminal will spit out some text when it is done.
The tiger-x86 disk will be remounted on the Desktop when the copying is done.
6. Okay, so after that is done, put that hard drive, that you just copied the disk image to, into your PC, I think it might need to be set as master (anyone sure of this?). Boot up your PC! Go ahead! It will boot into OSX86! The password for the user account on the image you just copied to your hard drive is "bovinity" You are almost good to go. You will find that your computer is very slow and sluggish, this is because a file on your computer is trying find the TPM chip that is on the Intel Developer Machines. Read onto "Things Everyone Will Need to Do After Installing OSX86" for tips on how to fix this, plus other problems you are likely having.
Things Everyone Will Need to Do After Installing OSX86
Okay, so you have OSX86 on your computer, but you are having problems, such as having a fast computer, but OSX86 still acting sluggish (a HUGE problem a lot of people are having), or, even though you have a SSE3 CPU, you can't run PowerPC applications. Here are solutions to the problems almost everyone (if not everyone) is having. Since almost every one is having all of these problems I will write this part as one big guide, not a "do this if you have this problem" thing.
1. Fixing unexpected slowness. There is a file on all newly-installed OSX86 PCs called "AppleTPMACPI.kext," it tries to find a TPM chip that is only on the real Intel Developer Machines. It uses all system resources trying to accomplish its impossible task. Here is how to delete it:
Navigate your OSX86 Mac to this folder: "/System/Library/Extensions/" Delete the file "AppleTPMACPI.kext" in this folder, reboot. Your computer will spring to life.
I got this email regarding the removal of the AppleTPMACPI.kext file:
Hi Sam,
I have seen your report about x86 macos X in internet. After fighting with it to remove the appletpmacip extension from the library folder, I have found that I can mount the image on a mac before writing it to a hard disk, and remove the extension there.
Hope it helps.
Bye.
Un saludo,
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2. Make your SSE3 computer run even faster. If your OSX86 computer has SSE3, and you installed off the "deadmoo" image this tip is for you. I did not even know aboat this until recently. Basically the "deadmoo" image is using a kernel that ignores the capabilities of SSE3 CPUs, deadmoo took it out. So lets use the original kernel! First download that new kernel! Lets install it.
Double click on the file you downloaded to expand it, if you have not already. Change the name of the expanded folder to "mach_kernel_new" Go into Terminal (found in Applications>Utilities) and type cd, then a space, and drag the expanded folder into the window. Hit ENTER. Now type cp mach_kernel.new ~/Desktop/mach_kernel. Now type cp /mach_kernel ~/Desktop/mach_kernel.bak (to backup your old kernel incase something goes harably wrong, delete when everything works). Now type sudo cp ~/Desktop/mach_kernel then type a space. Now type / (just a forward slash). Hit ENTER. It will now ask for your password. If you don't know it, it is probably "bovinity." That's it! Reboot your computer and enjoy.
3. If your motherboard has an Integrated Intel Media Accelerator 900 (like the motherboard recommended above) you will want to have Quartz Extreme and other video technologies enabled. The enable process is more than simple: go to the folder: /System/Library/Extensions on your OSX86 Mac and move the file in there called AppleIntel830.kext out of that folder (if it asks for your password: enter it. Don't know it? It's probably "bovinity"). Reboot your computer. That's it.
4. I have a SSE3 CPU but I can't run PowerPC applications (no iTunes)! Help! Okay, calm down. If you installed from "tiger-x86-flat.img" you have this problem. It's because that image has had SSE3 support patched-out. The file patched-out is called CoreGraphics. Here's how to fix it:
Find an untouched version of the "CoreGraphics" file and put it on your OSX86 Mac. Rename the CoreGraphics file to CoreGraphics.bak Move the file (CoreGraphics.bak) to:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A
Go into Terminal, type "cd /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A" , then type:
chmod 755 CoreGraphics.bak - Hit "ENTER."
sudo chown root:wheel CoreGraphics.bak - Hit "ENTER."
sudo mv CoreGraphics CoreGraphics.i386 - Hit "ENTER."
sudo mv CoreGraphics.bak CoreGraphics - Hit "ENTER."
Okay, now just reboot your computer! After reboot, you computer will have better graphics, and will be able to run PowerPC applications!
Okay, all of your basic problems should be resolved now. Having hardware-specific problems? Read onto the "Hardware-Specific Problems" section.
Hardware-Specific Problems
Sound card not working right? Can't get high-rez screen resolutions? Can't use network card? There are possible fixes for all of these problems. If you are using the motherboard I recommended above, you should not have any hardware problems and should be good to go.
Sound Problems
Currently, there is a solution to bad sound through the AC97 chipset. Here is a solution.
Wireless Problems
A lot of wireless chipsets and cards and adapters don't work in OSX86, even if they work with real Macs. This is because the drivers must be compiled for Intel. Some cards do work, though! And they work great! Go here for a page listing cards that work, and how to make them work. Some work is being done to get wireless cards that use the Airport chipset to work. Currently, some people are able to use wireless cards with the Airport chipset, and some are not.
Also, wireless USB cards that use the RT2500 802.11b/g wireless chipset, by Ralink Technology, have full driver support on OSX86 (so WEP and WPA work). Cards that are known to work:
DWL-G122
BELKIN F5D7050 Wireless 802.11g
Get RT2500 802.11b/g wireless chipset drivers here! Get the Mac USB 10.4.X one.
Hard Drive Problems
Not all SATA controllers work, here is a list of the ones where support for them is built into OSX86:
AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext
ICH5 Serial ATA Controller
ICH6 Serial ATA Controller
ICH6-M Serial ATA Controller
AppleVIAATA.kext
VIA SATA Controller
Hardware Name
8237 SATA
A discussion about this is going on here.
If you are using ATA for your hard drive in your OSX86 PC, and tasks that involve accessing a hard drive are slow (A.K.A. Copying files, loading video game levels, saving files), there is a solution to your problem that might be found here.
VIdeo Problems
If you have a video card that is a 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G Integrated Intel Media Accelerator, and you can't access different resolutions, you might find some help in this forum thread.
If you have an Intel GMA 915GM or 910 video card and you can't access high resolutions you might be able to find help in this forum thread. That forum thread also shows you how to activate Quartz Extreme on those cards
Hard Drive Configuration
Installed OSX86 on your PC using a disk image and can only use 6GBs of disk space? Want to share your NTFS partition with your Mac? Answers here.
Network Card Problems
If your network card did not start work automatically, there still may be help for you! Here is a forum thread about fixing some network card problems.
Run PowerPC Applications on SSE2
Here is a short guide with an amazing hack to help you run PowerPC applications on your SSE2 CPU, not as good as a real SSE3 CPU, but it gets the job done.
Tips and Tricks
By now you should have a PC running OSX86 like a charm, but there is even more you can do to get things running smoother! Here are guides that cover quick tips and tricks:
Tips And Tricks - OSx86
Covers:
1 Use any USB printer drive
2 Get disk burning to work with non-Apple drives
3 Replace SSE3 with SSE2 Patch
4 Fixing Browser Plug-in Issues
5 Making Preview Display Correctly
6 Deadmoo's password
7 Deadmoo's root password
8 Console Login from within OSX
9 Getting Safari to work
10 Recover from application crashes
11 Messing with the boot options
12 Xcode and developer tools 2.2 preview 1
13 Make the CTRL Key the COMMAND key
14 Hard Drive Configuration
15 Wireless
SpeedBoost
This guide shows you some speed tweaks for OSX86, I already covered the major one with you, the other two are pretty specialized.
Other (useful) Guides
So, that guide not your style? If you want to install OSX86 along with Windows, directly off an install DVD, or some other exotic method their is probably a guide for you!
If you have a system with a hard drive that can not be erased this guide is for you!
If you have a DVD burner, and a blank DVD, check this out! That page shows you how to make a bootable, patched, Intel OSX86 DVD.
For a windows only OSX86 install method go here! Thanks Josh!
Here is an excellent list of OSX86 installation guides.
I will be adding to my guide as often as possible. And also plan on making a new guide (based on my current guide) for Linux soon.
Useful Sites/Cool Ways to Use Your OSX86 PC
OS X x86 (Intel) - Downloads - Software Natively Compiled for OSX86 (Plug Alert: My site)
Darwine - Run Windows Applications Almost Natively on OSX86
Done
You have finished! It has been a surprisingly long journey from start to finish, I know, but we both made it! I hope your new Mac is working great, and you learned something along the way. Please feel free to add to this guide by emailing me at: sam@theplaceforitall.com I would also love to hear any success stories using this guide!
If you wish to install OSX tiger to your intel machine or usb drive, you can follow these few steps. Be careful because you can kill your hard drive if you are not careful.
You will need either a seperate hard drive (seperate partition will not do) or an external hard drive. Whatever extra hard drive you use will be completely replaced by osx and you will lose all information on that drive.
1. Authorized users should obtain the OSX files from Apple. It is illegal to obtain them from torrent sites by searching under the following keywords: "VMWare files for patched Mac OS X Tiger Intel"
2. Unrar these files to the root of your C: drive
3. Download Forensic Acquisition Utilities
4. Unzip these files and copy dd.exe to the root of c: drive as well
Note: the dd.exe program is used to write the image to your spare hard drive or external hard drive. The command is the following:
dd if=c:\tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\PhysicalDriveSomething
PhysicalDriveSomething should be replaced with your real physicaldrive (PhysicalDrive1, PhysicalDrive2, etc.). What your hard drives or usb drives are labelled is not always obvious. So I use WMI to figure this out. If you don't need it, don't get it. It's free... and it may prevent you from killing your wrong hard drive.
5. Download WMI Tools from Microsoft
6. Open WMI Browser Object
7. Allow block content and click the OKs until it loads
8. Select Win32_SystemPartitions.PartComponent in the left column
9. In the right column right-click on the drive device id (Disk #0, Partition #0, etc) and select Go to Object
10. The device window will open and click the associations tab
11. Exploring with this tool you should be able to match drive letters (Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID="C:") to each physicaldisk reference (Win32_DiskDrive.DeviceID="\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0")
Click for larger version:
12. Now that you know the physicaldrive label for your extra internal or external drive, you can drop to the root of your c: drive and run the command. Be sure to replace the physicaldrive text with the physical drive you determined above. If you use the wrong one, you will erase your primary hard drive.
dd if=c:\tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\.\PhysicalDrive
13. The command will appear to hang but you will notice your extra harddrive cranking away. It's going to do this for 15min to hours. Just let it run.
14. Once it is done, reboot and set the osx drive to your boot drive through your bios.
15. If your hardware is compatable, you should boot to OSX.
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1. an Ubuntu Linux Live CD: you can get it, or you can download it… it’s free. A valid alternative to Ubuntu that I found is Knoppix STD: use it if you’ve problems with Ubuntu;
2. VmWare Workstation it’s a commercial application, but a free trial is available;
3. The Deadmoo’s OS X Linux distro: this is available on P2P networks, usually under tiger-x86.tar.bz2 filename. I want to remember again that you’ve no right to download and to use it, if you don’t have a valid Apple’s OS X Licence.
- Boot from Ubuntu (of Knoppix) Live CD;
- Open a Terminal Window, get administrative rights (it should be sufficient to enter the command “sudo su“)… and type:
cfdisk /dev/hda
- The CFdisk utility will start: choose the partition where you want to install OS X (it should be the second one, but please make attention!) and choose “TYPE”. Now write “AF” (without quotes, of course) as type, and confirm changes choosing “WRITE”. The partition you chose will be erased and it’s type will be set to AF (Apple Format).
Now reboot, go back to Windows XP, install and open VmWare.
Create a new “FreeBSD” virtual machine. When asked to choose the primary hard drive for the virtual machine, choose your phisical hard disk; Also add a second hard drive to the virtual machine: the virtual drive inside Deadmoo’s archive; insert your Ubuntu CD and make sure that your phisical DVD/CD-rom reader is enabled in the virtual machine.
Then start the virtual machine and press on ESC as the machine begin, to enter boot menu: choose to boot from CD. Ubuntu should start booting in the virtual machine’s window. On the contrary, if you see Windows starting, immediately turn off the virtual machine and check CD-Rom settings (in this case, the CD boot has not started and your Windows XP is going to start into itself!).
When Ubuntu is ready, open a terminal window and type a command like this:
dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/hda2/ bs=8192
hdb (2nd hard drive) should be the mounted Deadmoo’s image: our source;
hda2 should be the 2nd partition of the 1st hard drive (our phisical one): the destination.
CHANGE HDB1 and HDA2 with YOUR SETTINGS!
If you’re not sure about partitions, type:
fdisk /dev/hda -l
to get a list of your connected hard drives and relative partitions identifiers.
The process will take about 5-10 minutes. At the end, you can shut down the virtual machine.
Download this file.
It contains a file named chain0. Extract it to the root of your C:\ partition and add the following line:
C:\chain0=”Mac OS X”
to your C:\boot.ini file.
Now reboot your PC and choose Mac OS X at the boot list screen. Then the “Darwin boot” will ask you to select the partition with Mac OS X installed: select it with arrow keys.
Now try to type -s and then enter. If everything goes ok, at the prompt type:
sh /etc/rc
passwd curtis
passwd root
and enter your new password when asked. If anything is wrong, try to boot with -x or without arguments.
Please take note that sometimes it’s needed to boot several times (with -s, -x, or with no arguments) to get OS X work… I don’t know the reason, but it happens!
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So, you lust after a Mac, but can only afford a PC. You’ve heard the rumors, that there’s a version of Mac OSX (pretty, pretty, prrrreeeccciiooooooouuussssssssss) that can run on your crappy old Pentium 4 machine… well, it’s true! And now it works, without needing the special ‘MacIntel’ hardware.. All you need is a CPU with SSE2 (preferably SSE3), an external USB drive with at least 6 GB of space, an Ubuntu Live CD, bittorrent, and a massive downloaded file. W00t. :)
The detailed instructions are after the jump, and thanks to UNEASYsilence for the heads-up.
First of all, you can t install OS X on a new partition, it needs it s own drive. For this guide Im installing it on my Sony Vaio TR2A. Since I only have one harddrive, it means I m wiping windows and all my files in the process. You can easily follow the same steps but instead install it on a second harddrive in your PC. Here is how I have succesfully install OS X x86 NATIVELY on my laptop!
First of all, I think your CPU needs at LEAST sse2. For rosetta and to get itunes and other ppc apps working, you need sse3. My vaio has a Pentuim M, so no rosetta for me. Everything else works. Im posting this from the OS X x86 port of Firefox Wink
1. Download VMWare files for patched Mac OS X Tiger Intel from your favorite torrent site. (Hint: Use the search function).
2. Copy tiger-x86-flat.img from the archive to an external USB drive (it s 6gb)
3. Download Ubuntu Live CD (link) be sure you get the Live CD !!
4. Burn the ubuntu iso, stick it in your pc, and boot it! (make sure you have your bios set to boot to CD)
5. Once ubuntu boots and the gui finally comes up, hook up the USB drive you copied the 6gb image to. A window should pop up showing the contents of the drive. Take note of where its mounted. It should be /Devices/Yourdrivesvolumename
6. Open a terminal window and cd to that directory (/Devices/Yourdrivesvolumename). Do an ls to make sure you are in the right place (you should see the 6gb img file.
7. In the terminal window type:
dd bs=1048576 if=./tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/hda
Replace hda with the correct drive! If you only have one drive, its probably hda. Thats what mine was. You are about to erase this entire drive so make sure youve got it right and make sure you want to do this! Hit enter. It takes a while took my vaio about 9 minutes.
8. When it s done, remove the ubuntu disc and shut down the pc. Disconnect your usb drive. Thats it! When you power it back on, OS X should boot!
For whatever reason, mine hangs when its loading. If this happens to you, boot with the -x option (hit a button at the darwin screen when you boot your pc. enter -x and hit enter). Should work without any problems, and I dont see any restrictions being in safe mode.
You ll notice there is a login screen, and you dont know the password! This image was created by deadmoo and we can easily change his password. Reboot the machine again. Again, hit a button at the darwin screen. This time type -v and hit enter. At the command prompt screen type:
sh /bin/sh
passwd curtis
(change the password to what you like)
passwd deadmoo
(change the passwrod to what you like)
Done! Now reboot once more, and again use the -x option. Everything should boot, and at the login screen enter your new password.
WELCOME TO THE OS X x86 CLUB! Look ma, no vmware!
Note: If you are installing this in a PC and have multiple drives, you dont need to use an external drive or linux distro. Simply dd the image in the same manner to any physical drive in your pc, and when its done boot to that drive and it should work. For windows users, there is a port of dd for windows you can use here.
I messed around with this in vmware before installing natively, and I can tell you running it native is a million times faster! Its full speed. USB works, ethernet works, all the x86 software works. Enjoy!
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For help with Mac OS X on Intel, try osx86project. No need to email me!
How I Got Mac OS X Tiger for Intel (x86) Working Great:
September 8, 2005
Note: This guide has some material that is only for OS X for Intel 10.4.1, for installation and help with both the 8F1111 and 8F1099 seeds of 10.4.3 go here. The hardware section of this guide is good for all OS X for Intel seeds.
In this guide I will describe and teach you how to install Mac OS X Tiger for Intel (x86) on your PC, with as few problems as possible. After the installation we will work on getting your new Mac running as smooth as possible (SAP). I recommend that every one, even you they don't use any guides here, read the parts about fixing problems. They will help!
The Hardware
When I first heard about a successful installation of Mac OS X Tiger for Intel (x86) (A.K.A. OSX86) I started looking for cheap hardware that was supposedly 100% compatible with OSX86. I have since succeeded in finding the perfect combination. My plan was to use my existing case, cd rom drive, 30GB hard drive, and 512MB RAM stick, since almost every type of the aforementioned items where compatible with OSX86. For motherboard, CPU, and the like I bought these items:
1. Motherboard -- Reports are floating around that the motherboard in the machines using Intel that Apple was giving to developers was very close to a Intel D915GUX motherboard. That motherboard uses the following chip-sets:
IntelÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡ 915G Chipset
I/O Control
LPC Bus I/O controller
Audio
IntelÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡ High Definition Audio subsystem using the Realtek ALC860 audio codec.
Video
IntelÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡ GMA900 onboard graphics subsystem
LAN Support
The board provides one of the following:
Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Marvel* Yukon* 88E8050 PCI Express* Gigabit Ethernet Controller
10/100 Mbits/sec LAN subsystem using the IntelÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡ 82562EZ Platform LAN Connect (PLC) device
After some researching I found this motherboard: ASRock 775Dual-915GL Micro ATX Intel Motherboard. The 775Dual-915GL has a Intel 915GL Northbridge, and an Intel ICH6 Southbridge, the same stuff the Intel board has. The 775Dual-915GL has a Realtek ALC850 8 channel AC'97 audio codec chipset, pretty close to what the Intel board has. The 775Dual-915GL also has a fully compatible Ethernet chipset and SATA chipset (using SATA now, works great). The biggest thing about 775Dual-915GL is that it has an Integrated Intel Media Accelerator 900 video card, the only card that is fully supported by OSX86 because it is the one that the Intel Developer Machines (sold to developers by Apple) have. It has Core Image and Quartz Extreme automatically enabled on the installation of OSX86, and it supports high resolutions. Sure, the card is nothing compared to the latest and greatest from Nvidia and ATI, but the fastest of videos cards will run like a used bargain-basement model under OSX86 because there are no fully-functional drivers for any Nvidia or ATI cards in OSX86.
2. CPU -- Okay, so the word is that both AMD and Intel CPUs work great, as long as they are SSE2 and SSE3 enabled. You can use a CPU with just SSE2, except you will need to do some hacking to get only some PowerPC applications running, and your general computing experience will be slower with SSE2. If you don't have SSE2 and you try installing OSX86: when you bootup your computer it will lockup after it gets to the gray Apple logo.
After some research, I figured it would probably be best to get an Intel CPU for two reasons. (1) The low-end CPUs in the Intel line had SSE3, while low-end AMD CPUs had only SSE2, and for my tight budget that makes Intel my friend. (2) It appeared that most problems people were having were only happening with non-Intel products. The CPU I chose was: Intel Celeron D 330J 533MHz FSB LGA 775 Processor. I would recommend, if you happen to have some extra cash, that you get a Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading, note the bold.
Other Important Prerequisites
Now, onto the stuff that does not brake the bake. I installed OSX86 on my PC by transferring the "Deadmoo" image to my PC's hard drive using a hard drive case connected to my real Mac, I will get to how I did that later, a long with other ways that I did not try. Here is what you will need for my method (you will need all -- if not most -- of this stuff for other methods). I recommend you follow parts of this guide even if you don't use anything close to my method to install OSX86 on your PC.
Required Stuff
1. tiger-x86-flat.img Commonly referred to as the "deadmoo" image, it can be found on bittorent sites by searching for "VMWare files for patched Mac OS X Tiger Intel" or "tiger-x86-flat.img" or "tiger-x86.tar.bz2" Find this file! It is the disk image that contains OSX86.
2. There are now ways to install OSX86 on a PC with Windows already on it (linked guides to follow), but I would recommend a new hard drive with at least 8GBs storage.
3. Now, if you will be using the real Mac method you will need to get a hard drive case, if your Mac does not have a spot for a 2nd hard drive. Hard drive cases can be found pretty cheap.
4. If you will not be going the real Mac route, you will find that a lot of the guides ask for you to burn yourself a Linux LiveCD. I would use Ubuntu.
5. Remind myself to delete number 5.
The Guides (and most importantly, my guide)
There are many different guides for many different kinds of situations, some use one hard drive, with Windows install already on it, some assume you bought a new system and hard drive. This little guide, meant for use with a hard drive that can be erased, is as simple as it can get when it can get when it comes to the basic installation of OSX86 on your PC. Again, this guide is meant for those with real Macs. Thanks to Vinc0r for writing what my guide is based on. I am going to have to "translate" this guide for Linux users, I also have some really cool ideas about over-the-network installation. On with the show guide!
Before we get to the actual steps in the guide you need to:
1. Using any method you want, get your blank (or erasable) hard drive connected to a Mac.
2. Have the tiger-x86.tar.bz2 on your computer!
Lets get started!
1. We need to get the disk image out of tiger-x86.tar.bz2, unfortunately Stuffit Expander corrupts this particular compressed archive, so we will use the Terminal (in Applications/Utilities ).
Type this into a Terminal window: tar -jxvf then type a space, then drag the file "tiger-x86.tar.bz2" onto the window. Press "ENTER." The computer will show NO activity until it is done, this is normal! Depending on how fast you computer is, just go for a walk, or reread your favorite computer manual for an hour.
2. Okay, so now you should have a folder named "tiger-x86" in the same folder were the "tiger-x86.tar.bz2" file was. We have to make sure that the contents of that folder are not corrupt.
Go back into Terminal and type ls -l then type a space, then drag the "tiger-x86" folder into the Terminal window. Press "ENTER." You should now see this in the Terminal:
ls -l [where your tiger-x86 folder is]
-rw------- 1 [username]1474560 8 Aug 19:59 floppy.flp
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 6441910272 9 Aug 19:03 tiger-x86-flat.img
-rw------- 1 [username] 8664 9 Aug 20:00 tiger-x86.nvram
-rw------- 1 [username] 343 9 Aug 18:34 tiger-x86.vmdk
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 [username] 1144 9 Aug 18:24 tiger-x86.vmx
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 32417 9 Aug 04:03 vmware-0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 30160 9 Aug 03:38 vmware-1.log
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-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 33479 9 Aug 20:00 vmware.log
If you don't have 6441910272 next to tiger-x86-flat.img you either downloaded some bad file from a bittorent site or you decompressed the archive wrong, and you should just stop right here.
If you do have 6441910272 next to tiger-x86-flat.img you are pretty much home-free! Time to install Tiger!
3. Go into Terminal and type df. Hit "ENTER." You should now see something like this in the Terminal window:
df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 147902984 71824768 75566216 49% /
devfs 185 185 0 100% /dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
1024 1024 0 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [243] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [297] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [297] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
/dev/disk2s2 204720 183224 21496 89% /Volumes/SomeVirtuaDisk
/dev/disk3s3 77903136 51976704 25926432 67% /Volumes/OSX86
My target disk is the "OSX86," so it is /dev/disk3s3, but don't use the "s3" bit because it is about partitions. I will call my disk /dev/disk3. Find out the /dev/disk of the disk you want to install OSX86 on, all info on this hard drive will be deleted. Just make sure you don't target the wrong disk, if you do you might wipe all data on your hard drives.
4. Before we copy the disk image to your hard drive unmount the target hard drive in the Finder by dragging its icon to the Trash. If you don't you will get a "device busy" error when copying.
5. Lets copy the disk image to your erasable/blank disk!
Open up a Terminal window and type "sudo dd if=" then drag the "tiger-x86-flat.img" image into the Terminal window, then type "of=/dev/disk43 bs=16k". Change the "/dev/disk43" to the location of the hard drive you got in step 3. Hit "ENTER." The computer will show NO activity until it is done, this is normal! Depending on how fast you computer is, just go for a walk, or reread your favorite computer manual for an hour. This might take a few hours. You might be able to change the "bs=16k." I do not know yet.
The Terminal will spit out some text when it is done.
The tiger-x86 disk will be remounted on the Desktop when the copying is done.
6. Okay, so after that is done, put that hard drive, that you just copied the disk image to, into your PC, I think it might need to be set as master (anyone sure of this?). Boot up your PC! Go ahead! It will boot into OSX86! The password for the user account on the image you just copied to your hard drive is "bovinity" You are almost good to go. You will find that your computer is very slow and sluggish, this is because a file on your computer is trying find the TPM chip that is on the Intel Developer Machines. Read onto "Things Everyone Will Need to Do After Installing OSX86" for tips on how to fix this, plus other problems you are likely having.
Things Everyone Will Need to Do After Installing OSX86
Okay, so you have OSX86 on your computer, but you are having problems, such as having a fast computer, but OSX86 still acting sluggish (a HUGE problem a lot of people are having), or, even though you have a SSE3 CPU, you can't run PowerPC applications. Here are solutions to the problems almost everyone (if not everyone) is having. Since almost every one is having all of these problems I will write this part as one big guide, not a "do this if you have this problem" thing.
1. Fixing unexpected slowness. There is a file on all newly-installed OSX86 PCs called "AppleTPMACPI.kext," it tries to find a TPM chip that is only on the real Intel Developer Machines. It uses all system resources trying to accomplish its impossible task. Here is how to delete it:
Navigate your OSX86 Mac to this folder: "/System/Library/Extensions/" Delete the file "AppleTPMACPI.kext" in this folder, reboot. Your computer will spring to life.
I got this email regarding the removal of the AppleTPMACPI.kext file:
Hi Sam,
I have seen your report about x86 macos X in internet. After fighting with it to remove the appletpmacip extension from the library folder, I have found that I can mount the image on a mac before writing it to a hard disk, and remove the extension there.
Hope it helps.
Bye.
Un saludo,
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2. Make your SSE3 computer run even faster. If your OSX86 computer has SSE3, and you installed off the "deadmoo" image this tip is for you. I did not even know aboat this until recently. Basically the "deadmoo" image is using a kernel that ignores the capabilities of SSE3 CPUs, deadmoo took it out. So lets use the original kernel! First download that new kernel! Lets install it.
Double click on the file you downloaded to expand it, if you have not already. Change the name of the expanded folder to "mach_kernel_new" Go into Terminal (found in Applications>Utilities) and type cd, then a space, and drag the expanded folder into the window. Hit ENTER. Now type cp mach_kernel.new ~/Desktop/mach_kernel. Now type cp /mach_kernel ~/Desktop/mach_kernel.bak (to backup your old kernel incase something goes harably wrong, delete when everything works). Now type sudo cp ~/Desktop/mach_kernel then type a space. Now type / (just a forward slash). Hit ENTER. It will now ask for your password. If you don't know it, it is probably "bovinity." That's it! Reboot your computer and enjoy.
3. If your motherboard has an Integrated Intel Media Accelerator 900 (like the motherboard recommended above) you will want to have Quartz Extreme and other video technologies enabled. The enable process is more than simple: go to the folder: /System/Library/Extensions on your OSX86 Mac and move the file in there called AppleIntel830.kext out of that folder (if it asks for your password: enter it. Don't know it? It's probably "bovinity"). Reboot your computer. That's it.
4. I have a SSE3 CPU but I can't run PowerPC applications (no iTunes)! Help! Okay, calm down. If you installed from "tiger-x86-flat.img" you have this problem. It's because that image has had SSE3 support patched-out. The file patched-out is called CoreGraphics. Here's how to fix it:
Find an untouched version of the "CoreGraphics" file and put it on your OSX86 Mac. Rename the CoreGraphics file to CoreGraphics.bak Move the file (CoreGraphics.bak) to:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A
Go into Terminal, type "cd /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A" , then type:
chmod 755 CoreGraphics.bak - Hit "ENTER."
sudo chown root:wheel CoreGraphics.bak - Hit "ENTER."
sudo mv CoreGraphics CoreGraphics.i386 - Hit "ENTER."
sudo mv CoreGraphics.bak CoreGraphics - Hit "ENTER."
Okay, now just reboot your computer! After reboot, you computer will have better graphics, and will be able to run PowerPC applications!
Okay, all of your basic problems should be resolved now. Having hardware-specific problems? Read onto the "Hardware-Specific Problems" section.
Hardware-Specific Problems
Sound card not working right? Can't get high-rez screen resolutions? Can't use network card? There are possible fixes for all of these problems. If you are using the motherboard I recommended above, you should not have any hardware problems and should be good to go.
Sound Problems
Currently, there is a solution to bad sound through the AC97 chipset. Here is a solution.
Wireless Problems
A lot of wireless chipsets and cards and adapters don't work in OSX86, even if they work with real Macs. This is because the drivers must be compiled for Intel. Some cards do work, though! And they work great! Go here for a page listing cards that work, and how to make them work. Some work is being done to get wireless cards that use the Airport chipset to work. Currently, some people are able to use wireless cards with the Airport chipset, and some are not.
Also, wireless USB cards that use the RT2500 802.11b/g wireless chipset, by Ralink Technology, have full driver support on OSX86 (so WEP and WPA work). Cards that are known to work:
DWL-G122
BELKIN F5D7050 Wireless 802.11g
Get RT2500 802.11b/g wireless chipset drivers here! Get the Mac USB 10.4.X one.
Hard Drive Problems
Not all SATA controllers work, here is a list of the ones where support for them is built into OSX86:
AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext
ICH5 Serial ATA Controller
ICH6 Serial ATA Controller
ICH6-M Serial ATA Controller
AppleVIAATA.kext
VIA SATA Controller
Hardware Name
8237 SATA
A discussion about this is going on here.
If you are using ATA for your hard drive in your OSX86 PC, and tasks that involve accessing a hard drive are slow (A.K.A. Copying files, loading video game levels, saving files), there is a solution to your problem that might be found here.
VIdeo Problems
If you have a video card that is a 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G Integrated Intel Media Accelerator, and you can't access different resolutions, you might find some help in this forum thread.
If you have an Intel GMA 915GM or 910 video card and you can't access high resolutions you might be able to find help in this forum thread. That forum thread also shows you how to activate Quartz Extreme on those cards
Hard Drive Configuration
Installed OSX86 on your PC using a disk image and can only use 6GBs of disk space? Want to share your NTFS partition with your Mac? Answers here.
Network Card Problems
If your network card did not start work automatically, there still may be help for you! Here is a forum thread about fixing some network card problems.
Run PowerPC Applications on SSE2
Here is a short guide with an amazing hack to help you run PowerPC applications on your SSE2 CPU, not as good as a real SSE3 CPU, but it gets the job done.
Tips and Tricks
By now you should have a PC running OSX86 like a charm, but there is even more you can do to get things running smoother! Here are guides that cover quick tips and tricks:
Tips And Tricks - OSx86
Covers:
1 Use any USB printer drive
2 Get disk burning to work with non-Apple drives
3 Replace SSE3 with SSE2 Patch
4 Fixing Browser Plug-in Issues
5 Making Preview Display Correctly
6 Deadmoo's password
7 Deadmoo's root password
8 Console Login from within OSX
9 Getting Safari to work
10 Recover from application crashes
11 Messing with the boot options
12 Xcode and developer tools 2.2 preview 1
13 Make the CTRL Key the COMMAND key
14 Hard Drive Configuration
15 Wireless
SpeedBoost
This guide shows you some speed tweaks for OSX86, I already covered the major one with you, the other two are pretty specialized.
Other (useful) Guides
So, that guide not your style? If you want to install OSX86 along with Windows, directly off an install DVD, or some other exotic method their is probably a guide for you!
If you have a system with a hard drive that can not be erased this guide is for you!
If you have a DVD burner, and a blank DVD, check this out! That page shows you how to make a bootable, patched, Intel OSX86 DVD.
For a windows only OSX86 install method go here! Thanks Josh!
Here is an excellent list of OSX86 installation guides.
I will be adding to my guide as often as possible. And also plan on making a new guide (based on my current guide) for Linux soon.
Useful Sites/Cool Ways to Use Your OSX86 PC
OS X x86 (Intel) - Downloads - Software Natively Compiled for OSX86 (Plug Alert: My site)
Darwine - Run Windows Applications Almost Natively on OSX86
Done
You have finished! It has been a surprisingly long journey from start to finish, I know, but we both made it! I hope your new Mac is working great, and you learned something along the way. Please feel free to add to this guide by emailing me at: sam@theplaceforitall.com I would also love to hear any success stories using this guide!
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