[OSx86] How to install 10.6 (Intel) next to Windows 7?


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... which is a Hackintosh, as opposed to a genuine Apple Macintosh.

Yea thats what he is doing

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I have a disc to try out from one of my awesome friends, of Mac OS X 10.6 Intel version. After looking online it appears my Asus P5K-E is supported by this version.

I don't want to lose my Windows 7 installation (on C:\ drive) but I have a 365GB partition (on the same disk) I could use?

What is the best way to go about this, anyone know?

PS: Its a legit version, not a "Hackintosh" disc or whatever. (Already searched online for some articles, but came up with varying advice!)

You didn't get what I was saying.

Hackintosh == non-Apple PC with OS X installed on it by whatever means.

Macintosh == computer manufactured by and bought from Apple Inc.

Clear now?

You didn't get what I was saying.

Hackintosh == non-Apple PC with OS X installed on it by whatever means.

Macintosh == computer manufactured by and bought from Apple Inc.

Clear now?

lol Yea i know that - but I asked about the F8 thing, and you said it only applies to Hackintosh computers

and as he is installing OSX on a PC - then the F8 would be correct no?

When you get the Chamleon screen press any button and the scroll bar will stop allowing you to put the -v -x commands in, It doesn't give you a prompt but if you start typing it will show up at the bottom. Then press enter.

To get into OS X 'single user mode' you have to press Cmd+S at the OS X bootscreen. On a Hackintosh that translates to Winkey+S (I think).

This wouldn't work as most users have to use a bootloader Chameleon for example rather than the Mac bootloader

Good job Spidey ...... so you updated the snow leopard to 10.6.4 yet ?

Neobond hasn't managed to get the 10.6.4 update working yet. Keeps throwing a bad error (kills the installation). I'm working with him to get it running with 10.6.4. :)

EDIT: Managed to get 10.6.4 update installed finally. Now for the extra updates! Wish him luck!

Best of luck Spidey ........... DO NOT ENABLE THE NATIVE NTFS READ/WRITE ON SNOW LEOPARD. It will make minced meat out of your other partitions.

BTW, did Spidey reformat his entire HDD to match the GUID partition table of Snow Leopard or did he install from a USB stick (with changed files) to allow installation on a MBR partition table.

Best of luck Spidey ........... DO NOT ENABLE THE NATIVE NTFS READ/WRITE ON SNOW LEOPARD. It will make minced meat out of your other partitions.

BTW, did Spidey reformat his entire HDD to match the GUID partition table of Snow Leopard or did he install from a USB stick (with changed files) to allow installation on a MBR partition table.

How he accomplished the installation is up to him to disclose. Sorry.

As for NTFS R/W support, its gotten better in 10.6.4 compared to 10.6.0. 10.6.0 killed my windows partition but I can use it in 10.6.4 with no issues. :)

How he accomplished the installation is up to him to disclose. Sorry.

As for NTFS R/W support, its gotten better in 10.6.4 compared to 10.6.0. 10.6.0 killed my windows partition but I can use it in 10.6.4 with no issues. :)

I tried the native NTFS R/W support on my 10.6.4 & i used to get a lot of Disk Checks on my reboots to the windows Partition. I also copied some files over to the NTFS drive from the HFS drive & to my bad luck they all turned out to be corrupt after the reboot. So i would tread carefully on that turf if i were you.

I tried the native NTFS R/W support on my 10.6.4 & i used to get a lot of Disk Checks on my reboots to the windows Partition. I also copied some files over to the NTFS drive from the HFS drive & to my bad luck they all turned out to be corrupt after the reboot. So i would tread carefully on that turf if i were you.

Different hardware, different setups, different results. It could be a number of things that could cause that, especially on a 'Hackintosh' that has flakey chipset support.

Different hardware, different setups, different results. It could be a number of things that could cause that, especially on a 'Hackintosh' that has flakey chipset support.

Agreed, nothing beats a REAL Mac though.

I'm pretty amazed to see people are willing to go through this much trouble every time a system update is released. I think I'd rather use Windows instead. :laugh:

After a couple of installs its nice and easy to get up and running.

Can you install system updates (security, Safari, "service packs" etc.) straight from Software Update?

Direct updates from Software Update work fine as long as you do not use a custom kernel. Meaning all AMD machines will likely have a dead install after using it (unless you know how to use the command line).

Most Intel machines that can use a vanilla kernel will work flawlessly (this is my personal opinion, not fact).

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