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How to install MAC OSX leopard on your PC? Answer is here first of all you have to download a modified version of OSX called OSX86. Find it on your favorite Bittorrent site.

Set Your BIOS

The most difficult part of getting this installation to work with my board was getting the right BIOS settings in place. In the course of figuring it out, I made a lot of different small tweaks, so to ensure I didn’t miss any, I’ve taken pictures of every relevant BIOS screen. If you’re using the same board as me (an Asus P5W DH Deluxe), just go through screen by screen and make sure that your BIOS settings match mine. If you’re using a different board, these settings could still serve as a good guide, but they may not perfectly match up to yours. (I’m having a tough time remembering every BIOS setting I tweaked, so if you’re using a P5W DH Deluxe, your BIOS settings match mine, but you’re having trouble, let me know and I’ll try updating the gallery with more BIOS screens.

Install OS X with the Kalyway Install Disc

Floating around the BitTorrents, you’ll find a disc image called something like Kalyway Leopard 10.5.1 SSE2 SSE3. Download it and burn it to a DVD—it’s what you’ll use to install Leopard. If you’re going to pursue this I’d still recommend purchasing an actual copy of Leopard, but you won’t need it here.

Basically this DVD contains the Leopard install disc along with the EFI software that lets your hardware work with OS X using the vanilla kernels—which is a big part of why you don’t have to do any of the command line hacking this time around. You just install the disc and voilà—everything boots up and upgrades normally (or at least that’s been my experience so far). So assuming you’ve built your computer using the original instructions, you’ve got the Kalyway disc, and you’ve already prepared your BIOS, you’re ready to install.

1.      First of all you have to install Vista. It’s easy and I m sure that you are familiar with it.

2.     Now comes to Partitioning before installing OSX you need to have a partition of minimum 10 GB recommended 20 GB+. The

partition must be formatted as FAT-32 Primary
Partition.

You can use

Partition Magic or Gparted live cd or Windows Disk Management.

3.      Boot into Windows installation and open Command Prompt {Start < All Program < Accessories <

Command prompt} With Administrative Privilege and run following commands.

4.      In

command prompt type DISKPART and press enter. Here we are using DISKPART for making HFS compatible
Partition.

Command	Preface
DISKPART> list disk	” This will show you a list of selectable disks. “
DISKPART> select disk n	[where n = the disk number]
	This will specify which disk to create a new partition on
DISKPART> create partition primary size=n id=af	[where n = the size in MB of the partition, For 20 gb space n will be 20000 ] [where af = hfs+ compatible]
	Will proceed to create a bootable primary partition for the Mac
DISKPART> list partition	” This command will show you the partitions on your selected disk “
DISKPART> select partition n	[where n = the newly created OSX partition]
	This will specify the partition
DISKPART> active	” This will make your OS X partition the first-boot active partition “
DISKPART> Exit	Exit from DiskPart………..

5.      In Windows Vista you must disable User Account Control [ UAC ].

6.      Put your DVD in rom and restart your computer with the DVD in Drive, now you should see Darwin load screen.

7.      As counting starts press F8 key and you will be able to have some more options.

8.      Now type -V and press enter now entered in VERBOSE mode here you are able to see any error if your screen freezes for more than 15 minutes than note last three lines and google them to find out a solution for your problem. If every thing goes fine after 15-30 minutes installation screen appears hold your breath we are not quit yet here.

9.      On the top a menu bar appears click Utilities >> Disk Utility.

10.  Here select the destination drive where you wants to install

Mac OSX.

11. Now click on ERASE on right hand side and under the format option select
”

MAC OSX Journaled Extended” and click Erase. Now
the disk will be erased and mounted once these done you are very near to near to your destination.

12.  Now close

the disk utility and click on the
partition which you created at previous
Step.

13. Now the most important section Customize in this section you can customize the installation option choose wisely make a search at wiki.osx86project.org & Insanelymac.com with your hardware configuration & find successful installation combination. For most of the INTEL based systems Vanilla Kernel works very smoothly & for AMD system try Voodoo kernel. It is also recommended to remove all the extra unnecessary languages as they take up about 2 gigs.

14.  Now your disk will be checked for consistency than installation begins. It will take 30-45 minute’s as your hardware.

15.  Once the installation finishes, reboot with the DVD in the drive. Press F8 at Darwin Boot Loader and type -s and press enter.

• Execute the following commands :

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1
quit
reboot

16. Now before the PC restarts

remove the DVD. At this point you should be able to boot into Vista normally.

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Now you have two option’s Boot with Darwin Bootloader or use VISTA bootloader.

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For Darwin bootloader follow these instructions.

If you want to use darwin bootloader than skip the step 15.
Darwin has its own dual-boot menu which is easy to activate, just press F8 on your keyboard before the Darwin boot loader prompt and Apple boot logo. The dual-boot menu might appear by itself depending on whether or not the install disc automatically sets the time-out period for you.
If you want to create a time-out that will allow you to select which OS to boot from without pressing F8, follow these instructions:

Firstly, load up Terminal (Applications/Utilities/) from within

OS X, then type:
sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

edit the Darwin time-out flag accordingly:

<key>Timeout</key>
<string>8</string>

Press CTRL+O and then Enter to save the file, after which you can safely close the session by pressing CTRL+X.
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For VISTA bootloader use this guide.

Put the Vista Installation Disc into your DVD drive and restart to boot from it. Click Repair System, press next and then select

Command Prompt Type DISKPART and press Enter.

Command	Preface
DISKPART> list disk	” This will show you a list of selectable disks. “
DISKPART> select disk n	[where n = the disk number]
	Select the disk which Windows Vista is installed to
DISKPART> list partition	This will show you the partitions on your selected disk
DISKPART> select partition n	[where n = the Windows Vista partition]
	This will specify the partition
DISKPART> active	Will make your Windows Vista partition the first-boot active partition
DISKPART> Exit	Exit from DiskPart………..

Reboot into

Windows Vista.
Next, you can either follow the command line BCDEDIT instructions below, or use EasyBCD.

Copy CHAIN0 from your Mac

OS X
partition or
Installation Disc to the root of your Vista
partition C:\.

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For Vista Bootloader you can also use BCD-EDIT.

1) Boot into Vista. Copy the chain0 file from the Leopard DVD to C:

2) Open the “Command prompt” with “Elevated Admin” privileges from the Start Menu.

3) Type the following into the prompt

bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Mac OS X”
bcdedit /enum active
bcdedit /set {GUID} PATH \chain0

4) In the first command type {current} as it is, literally.. nothing else..just {current} with the brackets. In the 3rd command however, replace the {GUID} with the alphanumeric GUID you see in the enumerated list under MAC OS X. You can see this list on your terminal as soon as you type the 2nd command above.

5) Close the

Command Prompt and Restart Vista.

6) You should now be looking at a screen with two options to boot into

Mac OSX or Vista.

Select

Mac OSX to see if you can boot into it. You should see the familiar Darwin boot Loading screen with the timer going down. If you don’t do anything, then it counts to zero and again shows the menu screen with Vista and
MAC OSX options. Don’t panic!

Again select MAC

OS X, and now as the timer counts down, Press F8. You would see a list of partitions on your disk with their names. Select the
partition with
MAC OSX installed by using up/down arrows and press ENTER.