How To Install Mac OS X 10.4.9 on Your Intel Computer
Important!
1. Before installing make sure your hardware meets the requirements. Check requirements here
2. All software can be found from any major torrent site.
What you need:
JaS OS X 10.4.8 SSE2/3 Intel/AMD DVD
JaS 10.4.9 Combo Update SSE3
PartitionMagic for WindowsXP if you don't have fresh hard drive.
chain0 (type this in on google.com, it’s on the first page)
Preparation:
Important step:
If you use external video card remove it and switch your display to integrated graphics output.
This step is important because not all video cards suppoted by Mac OS X and you cannot boot from DVD if your card is not supported. You can try to use your external video card after installation (if it supported).
If you have XP/Vista Installed on your hard drive:
1. Ensure you have at least 6GB of free space on your current partition.
2. Resize the partition using Partition Magic. Please see the Partition Magic documentation if you need help on this step.
You should get a block of ‘unformatted’ space.
3. Once you have at least 6GB of free space on your partition, open a command prompt and type diskpart. Enter the following commands to create a new partition, replacing the bracketed text with your unique information:
list disk
select disk [your current disk]
create partition primary id=af
exit
4. This should have reported that it created a new partition, and it will be marked as an HFS partition. It will be unreadable by Windows, but that is ok. We are going to reboot into the JaS DVD and play with it a bit.
5. Make sure your bios is set to check for a boot CD/DVD, and pop in that burned disk!
Reboot, and you should be taken directly to the DVD install screen.
6. Before installing, there are a few steps you need to take to make sure your partition is ready.
Open Utilities > Disk Utility from the finder-like menu at the top. Click on your new HFS partition listed in the list. You will likely not be able to mount it, but we are ok with that. Select your HFS partition and choose the ‘Erase’ tab and make sure “Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)” is the selected Volume Format and give your OS X partition a catchy new name! Now click ‘Erase’.
7. After it is done, your partition should go from greyed out to a nice shiny black mountable partition in the left column. Our work is done here. Close out of disk utility and it should return you to the installation window. You may now skip ahead to the installation and first boot procedures.
If you have additional empty hard drive:
1. Boot from JaS OS X 10.4.8 DVD.
2. Follow the above steps with the Disk Utility on your install DVD.
Installation and First Boot Procedures:
1. Boot from JaS OS X 10.4.8 DVD. Wait for the installation screen.
2. Click next, and you will be presented with a list of partitions on your drive. Only one should be selectable, and it will be the new one you just created it. Select it, and choose to continue.
3.
Now it comes time to view all the possible packages to install. JaS DVDs tend to have more than other DVDs, but it really is unimportant. If you downloaded an Intel/AMD Combo DVD check the box of your respective processor brand.
4.
Below the processor drivers will be various installation options, from graphics drivers to printer drivers to previous versions of the loginwindow. By looking at the titles, you should be able to see what you should install.
Important. Choose 10.4.4 loginwindow option, it is the older patched loginwindow that works with all processors. If you don’t choose this option, you may not be able to boot correctly.
5. Press "Install" button.
You can expect the install to take anywhere from 20-30 minutes to complete.
6.
When installation is done, you will be prompted to reboot. Go ahead and reboot, but don’t remove the OS X DVD from your drive.
7. Warning! At this point you cannot reboot from hard drive because your HFS partition is not active. To make it active do the following step.
8. Reboot from OS X DVD again. Open Terminal window from the menu: Utilities->Terminal. Enter the following:
fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 (change rdisk0 to reflect the disk number you installed to if not the original disk)
flag 2 (or whatever your partition number is. if you installed vista first, change it to 1)
update
write
quit
This will mark OS X as the active partition, and now you can boot OS X from hard drive.
8.
Reboot into OS X and enjoy your first boot!
Warning!. Now you can boot from OS X partition only but not from Windows partition. To boot into Windows you should make Windows partition active. See dual boot section below.
Setting up Kernel Flags:
Open Terminal and type
sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
Confirm your password you entered in the information screen, and it should bring up a text-editor-like window. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor. Ctrl+O to save (and then press Enter to save) and Ctrl+X to close.
Add the following lines to
com.apple.Boot.plist:
To automatically use a certain graphics mode
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1280x1024x32@85</string>
Note: If your video card is using VESA 2.0 drivers, leave out the '@85' part as it only works on VESA 3.0 will cause the system to reset before getting anywhere.
If you need to specify a platform
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>platform=X86PC</string> or <string>platform=ACPI</string>
If you experience stutter like (shutter) syndrome; usualy on dual core processors
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>idlehalt=0</string> or disable one core <string>cpus=1</string>
If you don't want to see the Darwin text on boot - HINT: You can get the prompt back by holding "ctrl" at boot.
<key>Quiet Boot</key>
<string>Yes</string>
If you want to show the Logo with spinning Boot Graphics
<key>Boot Graphics</key>
<string>Yes</string>
To put in switches (-v, -x, -s, etc)
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
Speed up Darwin's timeout count-down
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>8</string>
The 8 is the amount of time (in seconds) before Darwin automatically boots to the active partition (OS X). You can put in whatever you so desire.
To set Darwin to boot from a particular partition:
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>rd=diskXsY</string>
Where X is your hard drive number and Y is the partition number (BSD naming scheme)
if you are unsure about the rd value open Aplications>Utilities>Disk Utiliy, click on the partition with OSX installed and click on info, the right "rd" value is the value from "Disk Identifier"
Setting up Dual Boot using Chain0:
1. Reboot into Windows.
2. Copy chain0 to the root of the Windows partition (mostly C:/)
3. Add string chain0=”Mac OSX” to boot.ini file in Win XP
4. Restart and you’ll see a nice dual boot menu.
Setting up Dual Boot using GRUB:
Downloag WinGRUB.exe (type this in on google.com). This program is free. Run it under Windows and follow instructions. This will install the bootloader for multiple operating systems (including Mac OS X) on your computer.
Updating to Mac OS X 10.4.9:
1. Reboot from Mac OS X.
2. Double click to JaS 10.4.9 Combo Update SSE3 package.
This will install 10.4.9 update.
3. Reboot.
Warning! You must reinstall LoginWindow application from 10.4.8 package.
Known problems:
This method works great on Intel chipsets i915 and i945. You gain full GMA support with CI/QE. Audio AC97 works great. The only problem is Ethernet. The point is that 10.4.8 and 10.4.9 both contain broken extension IONetworkingFamily.kext. Reinstall this extension from working 10.4.3. system.
