Monday, August 23, 2010

Oops - The Challenge : Part 6

Okay... well here is the lowdown on the OSX install. My desktop was not able to use VT or hardware virtualization due to it's processor <thanks Art>. I used Securable to check my hardware on my laptop, which said it was able to do the VT stuff.
Now most people would say don't mess with VMs on Vista, or a laptop. However I take some strange pleasure in going against the grain in areas of life and technology.
I had to update Virtualbox and move the image to the laptop in order to do all this.
From there I created the VM, turned off the EFI
Choose the image for the OSX os
Then start the machine
If all is well with the world you get the installer

Now you need to use the disk utility from the top of the screen
choose the Vbox disk
click erase
name the drive, and then click erase again
click disk utility again, then click quit disk utility
select your drive, click continue
The next window is important. Click customize at the bottom left.
For AMD Users check,
Any Updates included at the top.
Drop down Kernels and choose Legacy kernel.
AMD option below System support.
For Intel Users,
Any Updates included at the top.
Drop down bootloaders and check the newest chameleon.
Drop down Kernels and choose Legacy kernel.
Then click Next done and Install. To speed up the process you can click Skip when the disc check pops up.
Wait for it to finish installing…
Then if you did what I did and forget to dismount the cd/dvd image you need to shut the machine down, then unmount the image, then restart.
If all is well in the new kingdom, the normal setup items appear.
Just hit continue if you like me do not already have a MAC acct. But if you do I would recommend not using it anyway. Register or don't, but soon enough you are in MAC OSX

1 comment:

  1. Left out one thing: snapshot that build. Seems that some of the Apple updates destroy all that you've worked carefully to build.

    If worse comes to worse, you can always roll back to it.

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