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- Hombre_Lobo0
@Johnny
did you use iatkos v7?
What's multibeast?- multibeast is a post-install tool for this install method. iboot + multibeast.johnny_wobble
- kalkal0
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2…
It's great if you have the right hardware
- kalkal0
Btw, I'd suggest a disk image when it's all setup and working so you don't have to feel the pain again.
- Ha. My obsessive imaging habits made me think the same.
Good point dude! :)Hombre_Lobo - probably a good idea.johnny_wobble
- Handy if you ever mess up a system update too.kalkal
- Ha. My obsessive imaging habits made me think the same.
- raf0
How many hours did you put into it, including research?
- quite a bit including research. but I was mostly on the clock. :)johnny_wobble
- Hombre_Lobo0
Thanks for that link kalkal.
There seem to be many ways to hackintosh. I wonder which is the best / most stable.
- from my looking around, this seemed like the cleanest method.johnny_wobble
- kalkal0
I think iBoot+multibeast is one of the cleanest ways other than just using iBoot and getting all of the kexts and stuff by youself
- the iboot cd you use is a handy thing to get you into the system if things fuck up too.johnny_wobble
- kalkal0
This whole thing could potentially become easier when standard PC motherboards start shipping with EFI instead of BIOS.
It's the biggest real difference between Macs and PCs still, other than the pretty factor.
- Oh and price :Pkalkal
- OH SNAP!!
You've open the gates now!!Hombre_Lobo - need some silver spraypaint too....vaxorcist
- haha. :-)akrok
- Hombre_Lobo0
^Ahh right. Good to know.
The efi thing rang some bells and I remembered I spotted this when choosing my components for a new machine -
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/sh…
that has UEFI bios.
What the hell is efi and uefi? Wikipedia here I come!!
- Hombre_Lobo0
what beast -
- What a loser, real Macs are soooooooo much better.kalkal
- holy crapmonospaced
- lol kalkal!
its not often monospaced is shocked. This must be serious business!Hombre_Lobo - how much work & effort goes into setting up something like that?tymeframe
- i'm about to find out, i'm building onescarabin
- johnny_wobble0
hehehe
- YOU CHEEKY MONKEY!! :D
nice tower, good cooling on that bad boy!Hombre_Lobo - It's the law :Pkalkal
- YOU CHEEKY MONKEY!! :D
- Hombre_Lobo0
@tymeframe
"how much work & effort goes into setting up something like that?"well first you have to do adequately put together a computer, which can be very daunting, but its quite easy.
The harder part i imagine is getting MAC OSX installed on your system, which from what ive read isnt that difficult as long as you're prepared for somethings not to work right away and spend some time trouble shooting them to get them working.
I expecting installing a hacked OSX would take a maximum 2 days, including all the problems you could face. which to most is worth the money saved as well as the better hardware available for a higher performance machine.
ask johnny wobble how long it took!
- johnny_wobble0
monday morning bump for those of you who missed it over the weekend. this thing is running great. :)
- Hombre_Lobo0
^show off!!
making me very tempted! :P
you imaged it yet? (take a copy of your hard drive so you dont have to faff about again?)
- no, not yet.johnny_wobble
- DO IT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!kalkal
- Also, it's nice to do it before you fill up your system with crap.kalkal
- yeh kalkal!
i do an image on a fresh install, then do another when ive got my shit installedHombre_Lobo - that did make sense, but sounded like bs!Hombre_Lobo
- kalkal0
If I ever do it, I'd like to mod an old G5 case from ebay to fit an ATX motherboard. I have no idea how to do that though, so I'm not going to.
- Hombre_Lobo0
^awwww mate! DO IT!!!!
That would be so cool. Would have the old school looks, but Modern power!!
- SteveJobs0
pretty soon this will be a common hack/build with all the wrinkles will have been ironed out of the process and you'll start seeing these popping up all over the place.
i think this is at the heart of what pc's have been about all along, but people have always associated them with the microsoft OS's and ugly cases, which shouldn't, or at least, doesn't have to be the case (NPI).
- you're ok with this steve? shouldn't you be resting?johnny_wobble
- kalkal0
I wouldn't be the first:
http://www.s155158671.websitehom… (horrible site design)
Pretty sure there's a better way to mount those fans inside without ruining the looks though.
- hah...cool. :-)akrokdesign
- just use a black dust filter I thinkepigraph
- johnny_wobble0
update. sleep and restart are definitely issues.
waking from sleep causes a reboot. after rebooting, the keyboard and mouse don't work (maybe all usb? not sure). turn it off, then back on and they work again.
same for restart, usb problem after restart. turn it if off then back on and they work again.
shutting down is fine. no usb problem after turning it back on.
I'll mess with getting the sleep working sometime, but for now, I'll just leave the fucker running. No other problems have come up. Got CS5 installed and it runs well for what I need.
- Hombre_Lobo0
^the best thing about apple is being able to copy most CS5 apps directly from the applications folder.
sooo good. just copy from one machine paste to another and they work, all running from a folder, like some portable windows apps. Thats the future! MODULAR!!