Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard vanilla installation to the PC laptop & desktop.

November 18th, 2009 |

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Step 1: Download cdboot.iso and burn it to a DVD double layer disk DVD9 format.
This DVD contain fully original Snow Leopard 10.6 DVD9 with additional Extra kernel extensions
support install into PC Intel Core2Duo based laptops or desktops ( depend from you).

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Size MD5 Filename

To unpack this 26 files into one DVD9 iso image please use 7zip util:

windows x32bit: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z465.exe
windows x64bit: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z465-x64.msi

Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD: can be installed from own distributive if already doesn’t have in system.

For MD5 cheksum verifying you can use this util for windows:

http://rapidshare.com/files/314366195/md5v12011.zip

(Please write to me back – if you don’t know how to do it)

Step 2: Put the burned boot DVD into your dvd-drive and on startup at the splash screen press

“F9” or “F12” or “F11” (depend from your PC) now you will be at the boot selection menu, from here wait till your activity light on your DVD-drive
stops blinking and boot from the disk.

Step 3: Once it’s stopped blinking you will see Chameleon boot menu with chose to “Mac OS X Install DVD”.
Select it if you have also already installed Mac Os X – other volume. Boot the disk
with the boot flags “-v -x” you do this by simply typing -v -x. If you see it at the bottom left corner then
you did it right, just hit enter. The disk will take about 5-10 min to load.

Step 4: Once in the Mac OS X Installer loaded go to “Tools” from the menu bar and choose “Disk Utility.” Once you’ve
gotten into the Disk Utility you have to select your hard drive and click on the partition tab and under the
Volume Scheme choose 1 Partition and click “Options” and choose GPT. From this tab choose “Mac OS
Extended (Journaled)” and name it Macintosh HD (or any other from your chose – it just Volume name) and click apply.

Step 5: Close Disk Utility and go through the Installer. After it begin – press “Command+L” (in PC – ALT+L), it will bring to front
the Installation output log process. Let it stay at front of Installer window – it necessary to freeze installer automatic reboot system after it done.
Once you will see in back window message like “Installation complete, Reboot after 30 second” – open Terminal windows from Tools at menu bar.

Step 6: Now we will install Chameleon EFI boot loader and PC required kernel extension modules to support Mac OS X 10.6 working in you PC as in Mac hardware based computer. Here the "Your Mac OS X" is the name of volume which you given in “Step 4”. In Terminal execute next commands:

For installing boot loader:

/Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/usr/bin/installer -verbose -pkg /SOFT/Post-Install/Chameleon\ 2\ RC3.pkg -target /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"

cp /boot /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/boot

For installing kernel extensions:

cp -r /SOFT/Post-Install/Extra /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/

cp -r /SOFT/Post-Install/Local Extensions/EHCISleepEnabler.kext /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Extra/KextStore/
cp -r /SOFT/Post-Install/Local Extensions/SleepEnabler.kext /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Extra/KextStore/
cp -r /SOFT/Post-Install/Local Extensions/VoodooPower.kext /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Extra/KextStore/
cp -r /SOFT/Post-Install/Local Extensions/VoodooSDHC.kext /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Extra/KextStore/
cp -r /SOFT/Post-Install/Local Extensions/VoodooHDA.kext /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/System/Library/Extensions/

chown -R 0:0 /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Extra
chown -R 0:0 /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/System/Library/Extensions

cd /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Extra/

rm Extensions.mkext; kextcache -arch i386 -mkext Extensions.mkext /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Extra/KextStore

cd /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/

rm Extensions.mkext; kextcache -arch i386 -mkext Extensions.mkext /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/System/Library/Extensions

For installing Preferances Panels:

cd /SOFT/Post-Install/PrefPanes/

mkdir /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Backup

mv /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Trackpad.prefPane /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Backup/

cp -r Trackpad.prefPane /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/System/Library/PreferencePanes/

cp -r VoodooHDA.prefPane /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Library/PreferencePanes/

Now install additional packages:

cd /SOFT/Packages/

/Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/usr/bin/installer -pkg DivX for Mac.pkg -target /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"

/Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/usr/bin/installer -pkg ATools_Snow.pkg -target /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"

For Novatel Wireless 3G HSDPA modems install:

/Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/usr/bin/installer -pkg 3G_Drivers_v3.0.2-PS.pkg -target /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"

Installing Skype :

cp -r /SOFT/Applications/Skype.app /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Applications/

Installing Google Earth:

cp -r /SOFT/Applications/Google Earth.app /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Applications/

Installing Opera web browser:

cp -r /SOFT/Applications/Opera.app /Volumes/"Your Mac OS X"/Applications/

Your are well done!!! Now close Terminal by "Command+Q" or "Alt+Q" for PC.
In Installer window click "Restart" button.

Step 7: After booting system and finishing first time registration – You should go to the VoodooHDA prefpane in
system preferences and adjust the “Speaker” volume and the Microphone for the mic. After this you
can go to the sound prefpane and select the speaker as your output.

Step 8: Now for update Mac OS X 10.6 upto 10.6.1 load "Mac OS X Install DVD" (cdboot.iso) in DVD and go to /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/SOFT/Packages/ and double click on to MacOsXUpdate10.6.1.dmg. Go through update process and restart system and you’re in Mac OS X 10.6.1 x32 bit fully running system.

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10 Responses to “Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard vanilla installation to the PC laptop & desktop.”

Tom Perkins:

November 28, 2009 at 8:03 pm

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Hi Eldar:

Came across your site and the post under http://eldar.aydayev.com/?p=185 and have some questions please.

I have downloaded all parts 7z.001 through 7z.026. I usually use Winrar to handle unzipping, and have not used 7zip so much. How can I make 7zip recognize that parts 1 through 26 are a multipart zip file? I tried joining these files with HJSplit and then used Winrar to unpack, but it says the archive is corrupt so I must be doing something wrong.

I have been trying to get Snow to work for me for a while, but keep getting problems with HPET and appleintelpowermangement. I have tried using various bootloaders and creating the HPET in the dsdt table to no avail. Tried using Psystar’s rebel, and that didn’t work either. I am hoping your approach will be better than all the failures I have done.

Best regards,
Tom from USA

PS: I registered on your site, but could not figure out how to post this to your forum. It says Leave a Reply and you must be logged in, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. So, hence the email.
Thanks again for a reply.

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- Eldar Aydayev:
  
  November 28, 2009 at 8:20 pm
  
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  Hi Tom,
  
  Sorry for later answer – I were busy.
  I compressed 7.5GB DVD9 double dvd ISO image through 7zip with maximum LZHA compression method and it can be extracted only by 7zip as from Windows also from Mac OS X too.
  What about HPET – if my image will not be run success, you must prepare DSDT.aml file by DSDT Patcher. You can download it from:
  http://rapidshare.com/files/312497228/Patcher02Beta5.rar.html
  
  Do you have any running Mac OS ? If yes – I can provide to you hove to make install USB from my image and with it you will can test custom DSDT.aml file dedicated for yours PC HW platform.
  
  Reagrds,
  
  Eldar Aydayev
  UNIX Systems Professional Consultant
  Cyprus / Nicosia
  E-mail: eldar@aydayev.com
  URL: http://eldar.aydayev.com
  Phone: +1 (650) 206-2624
  
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Tom Perkins:

November 28, 2009 at 8:24 pm

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Good day Eldar:

Thank you for the reply!

So, can 7zip “glue” the multiple parts together? Does it handle multipart archives the way Winrar does? Any advise would be appreciated.

Yes, I do have OSX 10.5.6 (Ideneb) running on an Aopen computer. I never updated as later versions required the DSDT and I was too lazy to figure it out. But now with OSX 10.6, I have been “forced” to learn about it I have used the Patcher to generate DSDT.aml files, but always get panics due to HPET. I don’t have a setting for HPET in the BIOS.

But I think the first thing is to figure out how to unzip the files from the archive. As I mentioned, 7zip does not know about the .001 file, and when I tried HJSplit to join them, it didn’t work. Today is Thanksgiving holiday here in USA and I have a nice 4 day holiday. I will be trying to get this working over the next few days in between eating lots of turkey, which is our traditional meal.

Again, my thanks.

Tom

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- Eldar Aydayev:
  
  November 28, 2009 at 8:25 pm
  
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  Good day Tom,
  
  Yes, you just put 001 file direct to 7zip and it will extract whole iso image while all 26 files automatic continuously.
  About DSDT patcher – I provide to you the patcher for BIOS (award and ami brand) with convert it to DSDT.aml and with fix HPER, RTC, Video (ATI and nVidia), Audio and Ethernet embedded devices in Main board.
  How to create USB install Mac OS X 10.6 : first extract iso from 001-026 file by 7zip, then create on minimum 8GB USB stick one GPT partition from Disk utils in Mac OS X. after it open cdboot.iso file from Disk utils and restore it to the USB GPT partition. Then necessary to install Chameleon EFI Boot Loader on it:
  After disk util mount the USB as Mac OS X Install DVD – go to the folder /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/usr/standalone/i386 and suppose that your installation is on /dev/disk0s2
  
  – Install boot0 to the MBR:
  fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk0
  
  – Install boot1h to the partition’s bootsector:
  dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2
  
  – Install boot to the partition’s root directory:
  cp /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/boot /
  
  Have a nice Thanksgiving Day
  
  Regards,
  Eldar A.
  
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Tom Perkins:

November 28, 2009 at 8:26 pm

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Hello Eldar:

Thank you for the advice. But I am not able to get past unzipping the archive. I have tried downloading again, but 7zip keeps telling me the archive is corrupt. Since you went to all the trouble to post it, I don’t know if you want to download it yourself to test if something got corrupted during the transfer to Rapidshare.

I appreciate all your assistance.

Best regards,
Tom

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- Eldar Aydayev:
  
  November 28, 2009 at 8:27 pm
  
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  Hi Tom,
  
  Ok, then please just wait a couple days – I will upload whole ISO image 7.5GB direct to my web site and reply to you the URL to it.
  
  P.S.: I haven’t great upload link – so get a little patience
  
  Eldar A.
  
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Eldar Aydayev:

November 30, 2009 at 10:26 pm

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Hi everybody,

I just updated cdboot.7z.004 file, at early state it has wrong md5 checksum.
Now after re-uploading it all must be right with yours 7zip extraction process.

Please download it and check archive again, if you detect new problems – write me immediate.

Thanks to all
Eldar A.

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Антон Павлович:

March 18, 2010 at 11:52 pm

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Step 1: Download cdboot.iso and burn it to a DVD double layer disk DVD9 format. This DVD contain fully original Snow Leopard 10…..

Браво, эта отличная фраза придется как раз кстати…

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Eldar Aydayev:

March 19, 2010 at 6:38 am

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Vsegda pojaluysta

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jamesensor:

July 15, 2010 at 5:03 am

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Hi Eldar, i’m also looking for a OSX that works on my laptop but help is nowhere. I’d like to put this on my laptop just for knowledge porpuses, and to learn more about it (also to show friends mac is possible on pc)
I have a hp dv6175ea laptop with these specs

Processor: 1,67 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)

Main Circuit Board:
Board: Quanta 30BC 66.21
Bus Clock: 667 megahertz
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard F.06 10/26/2006

2048 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

ATA Channel 0 [Controller] (2x)
ATA Channel 2 [Controller]
Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers – 27DF
Ricoh Memory Stick Controller
Ricoh SD/MMC Host Controller
Ricoh xD-Picture Card Controller
Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller

Display:
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 [Display adapter]

Intel(R) 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB Universal
Conexant High Definition Audio
Intel(R) PRO/1000 PL Network Connection
Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
HP Webcam 1000

and so on, i got this from belarc advisor, my specs.

I tried before with a leopard OS on my laptop , put it on a partition (it’s installed), but i have to boot with -x option or else it freezes on the apple white logo. And when it loads, i don’t have sound and no wireless . I’m ok working around with windows problems but not with mac :S, and i also think i choosed the wrong options in the costume instalation options (chipset, sound, etc, which ones were right? Most of the options about hardware haven’t got what my laptop has). So, how can i make it work properly? I’ve seen iatkos and ideneb on the web but i’m not sure what to get so it works well on my laptop..

Please help, everyone ignores

Thank you and regards,

James.

(P.S. if it’s better for comunication we could talk on some chat program)

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