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Running Mac OS X on x86 PC!

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Torankusu

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Hi everybody

listen my problem is that when i booted to install the mac os x panther 10.3, when looking for the hardrive on the select destination screen to install it, the

HD doesnt show up, and im using a 6Gb offered in the peaprpc website, so any of you with a resolution to this please posted here, thanx! :D

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topcat37

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Apple's Core OS On Your PC, For Free

Frequent contributor CptSiskoX sends this along:

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/

http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsour...rwin-701.iso.gz

(ISO of Darwin 7.01 for x86/PowerPC - which is basically MacOS 10.2)

more stuff:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/

also see:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/d....0/release.html

Darwin (aka Mac OS X) - ISO image available as free download for PowerPC *and* x86 (Intel/AMD/etc.)

FAQ: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/faq.html

It's based on BSD Unix. So my understanding is, now you can basically run MacOS X on your Athlon or P4 or whatever. <g> --- CptSiskoX

Thanks for the links, Cpt!

What's going on here is this: Many years ago, when Steve Jobs left Apple, he founded NeXT, which produced a system that was a technical marvel but that ultimately failed because almost no one could afford it. Its OS (NeXTStep) was based on a Unix variant.

When Jobs returned to Apple, he inherited an aging Mac OS that was embarrassingly out of date, long surpassed by Windows in power and capability. So, Jobs sought to combine the best of the NeXT OS with the best of the Mac OS: The Mac OS X was the result--- a modern, fully up to date, and very nice operating system.

Although the full OS X only runs on Macs, its core is not owned by Apple: It's based on Open Source software, which has developed in parallel with the Apple (and before that, NeXT) implementations. (See http://www.opendarwin.org/ )

The OpenDarwin project gives PC users a chance to explore the guts of the Mac OS. There's even a "DarWine" project to let you run Windows applications, unmodified, on Darwin. I wouldn't recommend OpenDarwin as a first choice for a day-to-day working environment (Windows, OS X, or any of the more complete Linux distributions would be better for that), but it is an interesting project, and an impressive display of cross-platform portability.

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Jimmerz28

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i would really love to know how to get a dmg file to an iso, other then with nero. i have tried putting a dmg file into winISO, but when i extract the dmg file from the iso in OS X I always get invaid checksum errors, and nothing works. :(

Tried using ISO buster to change the .dmg to .iso but I don't think it did it correctly. And I couldn't get Nero to convert the .dmg to .iso :huh:

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Torankusu

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After i installed mac os x panther, what can i do to make the HD (or image in this case the 6gb) bootable, because when i set the slave or cdrom to "0" it doesnt start keeps telling me that there is no bootable disk.[/font]

am i doing something Xtra wrong?

thanx!! :unsure:

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amr_01

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Tried using ISO buster to change the .dmg to .iso but I don't think it did it correctly. And I couldn't get Nero to convert the .dmg to .iso 

hmm...i wasn't trying to convert, cause i don't know of anyway to do that. i was trying to put the dmg file into an iso. but no luck. :cry:

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Jimmerz28

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hmm...i wasn't trying to convert, cause i don't know of anyway to do that. i was trying to put the dmg file into an iso. but no luck. :cry:

I see. I have an .iso that I made, but it keeps giving me this screen...so I think its corrupted :angry:

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Got it to work the first try, with just a couple minor problems. Too bad its slow. Great peice of software though!

Good work PearPC :blush:

If you want to take a look at my ppccfg files, I've uploaded them. ppccfg.darwin / ppccfg.osx

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HellBender

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Got it to work the first try, with just a couple minor problems. Too bad its slow. Great peice of software though!

Good work PearPC :blush:

If you want to take a look at my ppccfg files, I've uploaded them. ppccfg.darwin / ppccfg.osx

:drool: Elisha Cuthbert...

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amr_01

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another thing i dont know if anyone has this problem but the time in osx is running the minutes at 20 seconds. What i mean is that instead of the minutes changing every minute its every 20 seconds

one of my friends, who loves macs, and has been using for longer then i know. said that they may have made the time a lot quicker on purpose. OS X's visual effect are time based, so on a fast computer the effects look good in normal time. But in order to make the effects look like right on a machine that is as slow as PearPC they sped the time up.

Don't know if it's true or not, but it makes sense.

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