Posted by admin on Monday, September 12, 2011 – 1:38 AM
Filed under Apple, Mac & PC, OS X, OSx86
Tagged as OSx86
Well one thing I don’t mind doing is admitting when I’ve had a fail. We can learn from a fail and the only time a fail is really a complete waste of time is when you don’t learn anything from it.
This time I learned that if you really want to run OS X on a PC, you need to find out what hardware people have used to do it before. The Sony VAIO laptop I tried it on seemed to have some incomparable hardware. This was just a test run and someone had loaned me the laptop just so I could see if I could do it. I had to give the laptop back before I could really figure out what the problem was.
I wanted to let you know in case you read my previous post and were waiting for a follow up. SO here is the follow up, and since it didn’t work, I’m not going to waste a lot of time for either of us going into everything I tried. Basically, I tried to install several versions in Virtual Machine and when that didn’t work I tried to make a dual boot setup using what amount to boot loaders for OS X and PC’s, and they had the same problems that Virtual Machine had. I did this just to verify that Virtual Machine wasn’t the root of my problems.
This is over for now. Next time I get some new hardware and some more time, I will give it another shot.
Posted by admin on Sunday, September 4, 2011 – 2:52 AM
Filed under Apple, OS X, OSx86
Tagged as apple, OSx86
Since my world of computing has no limits or bounds, I can cook with many different operating systems. Starting with the Apple ][+ DOS, then Pro DOS, also whatever the C64/128 OS was called, before getting into MS DOS 3.2 and all versions onward, etc. Now days I stick to mainly Windows, OS X, and a couple flavors of Linux. I've also run all of the above on my PC's, even the old Apple ][+ Dos with thanks to some cool emulators. That is all of them, but one, OS X. Yes, because I have Macs at work, I’ve never bothered trying to run OS X on my PC before.
However, this is about to change. I’ve spent the week gathering information on creating my own Hackintosh. So far, it hasn’t been as easy as I thought it would. I started out trying to install a retail version of OS X Leopard & Snow Leopard using VMPlayer. None of them worked, but the attempts were not in vain. I’ve learned quite a bit about the different ways you can install OS X on a PC.
Now I must get back to my exploration of OSx86 and figure out what kind of Hackintosh I am going to create. We are burning the midnight oil here in the CyberTek lab and won’t be satisfied until we see something resembling OS X installed and working on one of the computers here.
Posted by admin on Sunday, September 4, 2011 – 1:48 AM
I’m disabling comments for a bit. I forgot to setup spam filters when I was fixing the site and have over 1500 comments. Most of it is spam. I hate this because I do get real comments now and then and some need a response. These will be lost among all this spam. So the new policy is you have to create an account to comment.
