A DETAILED Guide on Installing OSX on my PC.

Posted on May 4, 2008 by willjfergus

Well, what can I say? I knew that this subject would generate quite a lot of attention, but this was frankly amazing. And after answering the question ‘How do I do this on my PC?’ for the 50th time, I felt I had to do a more detailed video. So here it is.

 

A Step-by-step guide.

1, Check what version of OSX is most suited to your particular computer hardware. There are many versions of OSX patched, and ready to be installed, you just have to make sure you have the right one. You can do this by going to www.osx86project.org and searching for your hardware among the many available versions of OSX.

2, Go to my favourite little Web site www.isohunt.com and search for the name of the version of OSX you found earlier. You will then have the option to download a ‘.torrent’ file. This simply a link to trackers and locations on other computers where you can download the actual file. the ‘.torrent’ file must be opened with the appropriate program, in my case I use uTorrent which is a free, stable, program. Be very patient as the download will most likely take hours, days, or even weeks!

3, Find yourself a good ISO burning program, in my case, I use a very stable and lightweight program called ‘ISO Burner’ “Wow what an imagination!” you can either use something like that, or you can use your existing ISO management programs, such as Power ISO, or Magic ISO. Mount and burn your downloaded OSX ISO to a most likely necessary DVD.

4, The fun bit. Correctly set up your computer for booting from your DVD drive. This can be done in your BIOS, simply by finding something similar to boot priority and selecting your optical drive. once you have exited the BIOS, you will be prompted to boot from the DVD, press ENTER and allow it to load.

5, After about 10 minutes of loading, you will begin the install of Mac OSX. Its fairly straightforward from there, but I must stress to you to select the correct packages to install, I.e. don’t install AMD Enabled if you have an Intel Processor.

6, Lastly, enjoy having the best of both worlds. And for any help, location of drivers or general discussion, please visit the www.osx86project.org Web site. Or e-mail me at willjfergus@gmail.com

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47 Responses

  1. Nickson, on May 8th, 2008 at 1:38 pm Said:

    Wow… nice mouse you have…

  2. Thomas, on May 12th, 2008 at 3:35 pm Said:

    E-Mail me at thomas_home@live.co.uk if you know where to get a patch for OSX

  3. Ross Wilford-Povey, on May 14th, 2008 at 8:58 pm Said:

    wheres part 2, does it work?

  4. Pablo Taramelli, on May 18th, 2008 at 5:31 am Said:

    I´ve got a custom Intel DG965WH mainboard, Intel 6420 processsor (core 2 duo), integrated video, audio , 1 HD Sata 250 GB with Windows XP and Ubuntu, and a 2nd HD with 500 GB for installing OSX 10.5.2. I tried everything, Original MAC OSX Leopard, Kalyway and BrasilMac. Original and Kayway seems to not be there (prompt only), BrasilMac stops with a ¨waiting fot boot volume with UUID …., when I put -s in boot option, otherwise I see a white screen with the apple logo endless ), and hangs on. The first time I could install it with Kalyway but because I could not reboot from HD (I unplugged the first HD TO INSTALL) I tried to reinstall with the results I wrote before. I´m stuck, everybody talks about problems once you at least get to the Apple first screen, Icanñt get there !!!, Can You help me PLEASE !!!!!

    RELPY:

    Well the only thing i can say is, try Tiger instead of leopard. Please give me your e-mail address and i can give you a torrent for a version of tiger that i know to be working.

    Will Fergus, http://www.thegeekblog.co.uk willjfergus@gmail.com

  5. Willow, on May 26th, 2008 at 12:17 pm Said:

    Hy everybody,

    I’m really beginner in “Hackintosh”, so sorry for this maybe stupid question… :)

    I’ve downloaded several ISO package, last time i tried Kalyway_10.5.2_DVD_Intel_Amd.iso.

    My problem was same with all of them:

    After booting the fresh burned DVD, immediately got the error message:
    System config file ‘/com.apple.Boot.plist’ not found.

    Any suggestions ? Thx.

  6. Glen, on May 27th, 2008 at 10:45 pm Said:

    Ok so I downloaded a 3.66 GB file and I really want it to work cause thats huge I wasted allot of bandwidth. Ok so I have a problem the file I downloaded was the kalyway 10.5.2 leopard x86 patched, and so I put it in my computer press enter to boot from cd/dvd and it just restarts and it does this in a loop, I thought I had fixed the problem I pressed f8 and typed -x (start in safe mode) and pressed enter it seemed to be working it did the lots and lots of text scrolling down the screen, loading the files but then when its done it reboots again and asks me if I want to boot from the dvd!!!! AHHHHH this is soo frustrating PLEASE HELP ME!

    REPLY:

    I had the same problem, download this version of OSX it worked fine for me. ‘[isoHunt]_iAtkos_2.0i_BS_Release’ (google it)

  7. Amrit, on May 29th, 2008 at 2:37 pm Said:

    when you get the thing that says press enter to boot with no options,press F8 to get the options thing and type -v -x.

    REPLY:

    If it does not work without typing anything, then try ‘-v -x cpus=0′

  8. Glen, on May 31st, 2008 at 6:34 am Said:

    Ok so Amrit none of those worked for me so I’m going to try the one that that person said the iatkos one

  9. Glen, on May 31st, 2008 at 7:26 am Said:

    “that person” I didn’t realize it was will

  10. Glen, on May 31st, 2008 at 7:31 am Said:

    I hope it works for me thanks :D

  11. Glen, on June 1st, 2008 at 7:12 am Said:

    Thank You I am typing this reply on my new Hackintosh!

  12. Ninaad, on June 5th, 2008 at 11:43 am Said:

    i just download a iatkos 2.0v from the torrents and am not able to start the operating system the installation and everything works well completes succesfully but it does not start the operating system after reboot.

    it only shows the cursor please some one help
    please respond i am in need of help please.

  13. mark, on June 10th, 2008 at 8:33 pm Said:

    Hello there,
    I wanted to develop a few Iphone apps for myself, however i need a mac… ;( So i stumbled on this.

    I have a toshiba satellite and would like to partition my drive and do a dual boot. Any advice would be much appreciated. If it can’t be done i’ll have to find a cheep mac with leopard on it to download the SDK… arg.

    I’d be willing to compensate someone to get this up and running, thanks in advance

    Mark

  14. Peter, on June 14th, 2008 at 6:43 pm Said:

    It might be a sily question…
    Do I need to create a separate (designated) partition before the installation or will the Leo setup process automatically create one? I just want to avoid messing up my new machine.
    Thank you in advance for the help.

    Peter

  15. xtrmcdr, on June 15th, 2008 at 4:43 pm Said:

    Hello. I really wanna try this Hackintosh! But my internet is slow n I can only dl one OSX iso. This is my hardware:

    Amd Athlon 64 X2 4200+
    Asus M2A-VM Mobo
    Asus Ati Radeon 3650
    1GB DDR2 RAM
    400GB SATA HD

    Plz someone decide which iso is right for me. Thanx alot

  16. willjfergus, on June 15th, 2008 at 8:33 pm Said:

    In answer to xtrmcdr, i would go with Kalyway.

  17. willjfergus, on June 15th, 2008 at 8:34 pm Said:

    In answer to Peter, no you do not need to use any special software if that’s what you mean. You will of course have to do the partitioning yourself but you can do it in the installer, and it’s made very simple.

  18. xtrmcdr, on June 16th, 2008 at 3:14 pm Said:

    thanx willjfergus. Now doanloading Kalyway 10.5.2. Time left…. 1345 Hours. ;p

  19. DarknessSoars, on June 17th, 2008 at 12:24 am Said:

    I’ve tried installing multiple versions many times. It goes through the entire installation just fine until the last 1% then it just pops up saying the installation failed please restart your computer. Same issue over and over, tried reformatting the drive each time, still same issue. reinstalled Vista thinking there might be a write error with my hard drive, Vista installed just fine. Tried going back and reformatting the drive and running the installer again. Once again ran through 99% of the installation and again popped up saying it failed. Any thoughts?

  20. Radu, on June 19th, 2008 at 8:17 pm Said:

    Do you know about a link to an iso for install on a dell Vostro 1000 laptop? it’s AMD

  21. willjfergus, on June 23rd, 2008 at 6:56 am Said:

    REPLY for Radu, I would go to http://www.isohunt.com and search for a SSE3 Kalyway edition.

  22. Rhythm J, on June 29th, 2008 at 10:27 am Said:

    Hi willjfergus! I have 2 questions to ask:

    QUESTION # 1:
    My system has the following specifications:
    CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (3GHz)
    Instructions: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, EM64T
    Motherboard: D101GGC(Model), ATI->
    RS400/RC400/RC410 (Chipset)
    Memory: 1024MB (DDR)

    Which patched image should I download from isohunt.com? I know my machine is capable of running OS X Leopard without a hitch. Can’t figure out which one would be ideal.

    QUESTION # 2:
    I want to install OS X on an external portable HD of 80Gb having two primary partitions of 35-37Gb. I f i’m successful how shall I boot up OS X from the system the external HD is attached to.

    Plz reply ASAP at rhythmbytes@gmail.com
    Thanx.

  23. Themac, on July 1st, 2008 at 6:34 pm Said:

    Hi!!!

    I want to have a HackInTosh.
    I have two Questions:

    1. Is a BIOS Hack required?
    2. I have a sort of no-name-PC. It´s not included in the compatibility list at the Wiki. (AMD 6400+ ,ECS Mainboard with Realtek sound and LAN, ATI onboard graphics X1250). If the Installation goes wrong, can I then normally install Windows again?

  24. Roger, on July 6th, 2008 at 3:13 pm Said:

    Willjfergus, how long to download Kalyway 10.5.2 using my cable Internet download speed of 10mbps? Is your isohunt a best place to download or the pirate? I do not understand the reference to “Seeder” and “leecher” Do not understand the need of an ISO program to download Kalyway 10.5.2 or burn to DVD. I plan to start with the new Intel Atom processor soldered to it’s own mobo as has already been posted. Thank you for the video. Roger
    leroiun@gmail.com

  25. Tincupo, on July 7th, 2008 at 1:28 am Said:

    Hey all,

    when i insert the DVD with Kalyway….and then i hit enter….and text rolls down the screen and slow to a *waiting on root device*…any ideas?

  26. willjfergus, on July 7th, 2008 at 10:08 am Said:

    Downloading a big torrent WILL take a long time, however since Kalyway is very popular it should only take around 8-18 hours.

    A ’seeder’ is someone who continues to upload the file to other people even after they have downloaded it. A ‘leecher’ is someone who downloads the file and immediately quits their torrent application.

  27. Duc, on July 12th, 2008 at 11:09 pm Said:

    I am having trouble w/ the install. After it install all of the information from the DVD, then reboots and goes into the setup screens, my image is garbled and I can not see what needs to be entered. I have tried to install using the voice command, but I am still missing something. Is there a fix?

    HP ZD8000
    Win XP SP3
    1 GB Ram
    3.4 GHz Intel P4
    Ati Mobile Radeon 128 Mb

    Thanks,
    Duc

  28. Michael, on July 13th, 2008 at 5:09 pm Said:

    SUH_WEET!!! get a tripod…

  29. chad, on July 15th, 2008 at 7:59 pm Said:

    hey i an new too all this and glad i found this web site before i spent loads of cash on a new sple mac. I have a intel d 3.40. 250gb hard disk and all over basics. I want to instal os x 10.5 as main and only os. Can any one give me a full run down on what to do. Im ok with computers but not the greatest so any help would be great. Thanks from chad….. Cw83@hotmail.co.uk

  30. chaitany, on July 20th, 2008 at 7:37 am Said:

    i downloaded kalyway and installed it on my pre installed windows XP machine. installation was smooth. but unfortunatily chain0 didn’t worked. so i tried TBOOT and it worked. my pc got dual boot option with windows and leopord i selected leopord and it started loading I saw the apple logo but after that a I could hear only sound of The Voice Helper. nothing appeared on screen. please help me.
    my config. is as
    Compaq C772 Laptop
    Dual core T 2370 1.73 Ghz
    2 GB DDR2 RAM
    160 GB SATA HDD
    Intel x3100 Graphics card

    my windows XP is still working fine but I am unable to work on my Hackintosh :( due to no display

  31. chaitany, on July 20th, 2008 at 4:00 pm Said:

    I can boot OSX in safe mode, but not in normal mode due to the blue screen.

  32. jtime, on July 25th, 2008 at 6:44 am Said:

    iv got a real os x 10.5.1 disc and was wondering if u could give me directions on getting a patch and so on….thnx

  33. Rez, on July 27th, 2008 at 4:08 pm Said:

    Nice video guide. How about a guide on how to build a Mac OS compatible system from scratch where one couldnt go while loading OS X on x86 systems? Different system configs based on AMD/INTEL would be great.

  34. Phil, on August 1st, 2008 at 11:31 pm Said:

    Ace guide!

    Just one question, I want to boot from my portable hard drive (usb), but when I get to the boot priority screen, it gives me these 2 usb options: USB-FDD and USB-ZIP. which one would you recommend me to use?

  35. sjam, on August 4th, 2008 at 7:46 am Said:

    I’ve got an original leopard DVD, can I install this on a HP with intel celeron? Or will this not work.
    What version else do I need to download?
    thanks!

  36. crisl, on August 6th, 2008 at 5:41 am Said:

    Will I be able to run Boot Camp to install Windows so i can have Mac and Windows??

  37. swapnil, on August 6th, 2008 at 8:42 pm Said:

    hii

    i have an acer aspire 3002nlc laptop. its based on mobile sempron 2800+. i downloaded kalyway 10.5.2 intel amd dvd. i was able to configure vmware server and start the installation. the proble is that the installation starts and then stalls at the messege
    “darwin kernel version 9.2.0: sun mar 2 00:11:08 sct 2008; made by …”

    can u pls help. i am a newbie in hakintosh
    thanks

  38. arun, on August 7th, 2008 at 3:28 am Said:

    hi i just got kalway .10_5_2_intel_amd and tried to install mac on my hp laptop.
    the problem is wen it reaches “where do u want to install mac?”, it only shows e:drive and not my c; and d; drives…wat could be the problem?

  39. arun, on August 7th, 2008 at 4:01 am Said:

    by the way my disc drives are ATA..and not SATA

  40. Amartya, on August 10th, 2008 at 11:32 am Said:

    Hi
    I just tried using iAtkos v1.0i, and when I went to the Disk Utility it showed no Hard Drive! Help!!

  41. owais, on August 10th, 2008 at 12:01 pm Said:

    hiya i got the new mac os x on a legit mac cd but wen i put it in my pc, it dont load. i got xp i woud love mac on it. so with a legit mac cd, how can this be done?

  42. Ryan, on August 11th, 2008 at 2:00 am Said:

    Here’s some interesting specs for you:

    Intel Q9550
    XFX nForce n790i
    XFX GeForce 9800 GX2
    4GB DDR3 Corsair RAM 1333MHz
    2 SATA HDDs + 1 IDE

    Any ideas what version would support my system? I’d be looking to multi boot OSX86 + XP + Vista (Vista being the main OS).

    Thanks in advance

  43. Bhushan, on August 20th, 2008 at 11:11 am Said:

    HI..
    my problem is that after I insert the DVD the darwin starts and then a white screen with Grey apple appears and it halts thr..
    when i tried to F8 in Darwin and gace -v
    it stops at ERROR-Fire Wire unable to determine security mode;
    Still waiting for root device
    Still waiting for root device
    Still waiting for root device
    Still waiting for root device

    intel core 2 duo 2.2ghz
    intel 965 motherboard
    40gb PATA hdd
    Geforce 8400 – 512MB PCIE card
    INTEX LAN card

    M tryin INTEL SSE2 SSE3 DVD

    and i formated the hdd HFS+ by macdrive

  44. Kamran, on August 29th, 2008 at 7:50 am Said:

    Bushan
    “when i tried to F8 in Darwin and gace -v
    it stops at ERROR-Fire Wire unable to determine security mode;
    Still waiting for root device
    Still waiting for root device
    Still waiting for root device
    Still waiting for root device”
    could be an issue with SATA drives i have a desktop running 2 SATA drives and an SATA dvd drive it gave me the same problem then i unplugged the SATA hard drives and still same problem finaly i hooked up a ide dvd drive and an ide hard drive and yay it worked… there was another bump i came across and it had to do with the ieee firewire interface or some thing so try disabling the firewire in the bios as well… good luck… still working on having my system boot properly without the disk and not having to re install every few hours… lol

  45. jonatan, on August 29th, 2008 at 3:06 pm Said:

    i got a problem to with my disks, when os x ask me where i want to instal it, i only see the disc of the jas os x, and not c, and the other harddriver.

    plz help me.

  46. junpax, on August 30th, 2008 at 3:20 pm Said:

    i have a problem. i have downloaded the kalyway10.5.2 intel amd dvd and i burned it but when i restarded my computer so that i could install it. it doesnt find any software to boot. it goes directly to windows vista.

  47. acdcfan, on September 2nd, 2008 at 11:23 am Said:

    Hi I have downloaded Kalyway 10.5.1 and I am stuck at apple logo….
    If a press F8 and then -v, scrolling text and than it reboots…
    If I type cpus=1 I get apple logo and spinning circle but that is it….

    any ideas anyone….

    @junpax
    You must boot of cd by setting boot order in BIOS

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