Turning a PC into a mac
Even though I have a real imac with the latest OS X installed and it works very well indeed as nature intended, I have been looking at the ways to install OS X 10.5.1 on one of my many Computers around. The end gaol was really to have my Work laptop, a Dual Core Athlon Machine with 2 GIG ram as an alternative OS X machine. I looked around and found two DVD Images which I thought might work:
iATKOS v1.0ir2 (the i Stands for Intel)
Mac OS X for AMD.
the test begins
I started of with a collection of Laptops at work, as these where Ghosted, it mattered not if I screw them up as I can quickly get them back to a working OS. I had a few to choose from such as C2D 1.86Ghz machine and various other models. I went through the process and rebooted, this is when i was met with a flashing cursor. I read the forums, re-installed many times, tried different options on the install, Use GParted Live CD to set the boot flag and so forth and so on. At the end of the Day I had no working Mac OS X on any of these computers.
Trying the computers at Home.
I Ghosted my Dell GX620 machine and off I went, this has a Pentium 640 (3.2ghz) with 2 GIG ram etc. Thsi has SSE3 as required and I set off to see if this had any more luck. I tried so many times and did not get to the apple desktop at any stage.
Eventually I had to give up, re-ghosted XP back on there and promptly gave up for the day.
Another Go – lets waste some machines !!
Today I thought I would have one more go, so I gosted the Core 2 Duo Machine (2.4Ghz) Fitted with a GeForce 7600GT, this has much newer hardware all round and in theory but I failed to even get past the DVD boot, it just sat there doing nothing.
I then moved to my Athlon 64 3700 machine, would i have better luck with this? No Ghosting this time, just plain Wiped the thing, used the AMD Install and off I went. Standard OS X Install Screen, no extra Stuff on Install. Rebooted and guess what – a flashing cursor. I am missing something with this Boot part and for all I know its worked past some simple instructions.
