Installation Guide for new users: step by step from windows to Apple snow leopard (install Mac OS X on a PC! Excellent collections)

At the end of August, Apple officially released the next-generation Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system. Apple's operating system has always been well received in terms of user friendliness and security and stability.

The Apple operating system can only be installed and used on the Apple Computer. Unlike windows, it requires a series of simulation and cracking to be installed on a PC. The installation process is complex and challenging. The following is the installation guide for installing the 10a432 snow leopard PC. I have tried to use as many pictures as possible to make the process simple and foolish.
Prepare necessary items: a PC with a Windows operating system and a DMG image file that can access the internet. the MD5 verification code of the 10a432 retail edition is 1d1fb7eca55470143c153f7f902b4ada), 2g space available, your courage and patience.

This Guide may be most suitable for anyone who has never installed an Apple system on a PC, Because you

USB keyboard and mouse are not required
USB flash drive not required
No DVD recorder (if you have downloaded an image or even do not need an optical drive)
The second hard disk and GPT partition table are not required.
There is no need for another operating Apple system (all the cracking operations can be completed in windows, and no other platform is required)
You do not need to enter a command line.

Quick preview of the entire process:

Step 1: narrow down the current partition to free up space for the snow leopard and the installation disk
Step 2: Modify and load the retail CD image
Step 3: configure the Boot Loader
Step 4: Install the snow leopard with an apple retail Disc
Step 5: Start snow leopard
Step 6: perform operations after installation

For easy installation, you can download all the files required during the entire process at the end of the Guide.

Step 1: narrow down the existing partition volume

Snow Leopard uses its own file system, HFS +, not compatible with Windows NTFS file system. This Guide requires two HFS + Partitions to complete the installation task, one of which is 6.5 GB, the size of the operating system is 20 GB. The size of the operating system is about 8 GB ). To ensure that your files will not be lost, you need to divide the current partition (such as the D disk) into three parts. The old files are put together as one partition is not affected, the remaining free space of the partition is used to create two additional HFS + Partitions (such as an edisk and a f disk ).

The following describes the detailed steps,
Note: My computer configuration is different from yours. The following example is only used to describe the process and method to help you understand what I mean. You need to flexibly adapt to your own configuration.

1. Right-click my computer --> Manage --> disk management on the left of the pop-up window. Here you can see your hard disk partition status.

2. my D disk has a lot of space left, so I used it to open the knife. As I said before, we need 20 + 6.5 = 26.5gb space. Therefore, first, I want to reduce the size of the d disk by 26.5 GB, right-click the D disk, and click the --> resize command line to implement similar functions. Then, in the pop-up box, enter 27136 (1024 MB/GB × 26. 5 Gb), and then press OK. Although the operations in this guide will not delete the data on your hard disk, the steps related to partition processing are the most dangerous step in the Guide, your data will disappear in the bullet box. Please do not ignore any prompts in the warning box.

3. After compressing the D disk, you will find that the files on the d disk are undamaged, but the partition size has changed and the available space is less than 26.5 GB. The disk has 26.5g unallocated space that does not belong to any partition.

4. right-click unallocated space --> create simple volume, click Next, and enter 6656 (1024 MB/GB × 6. 5 Gb). In the next step, allocate the space to E. Then, select FAT32 in the file system to format the edisk. If you like it, give it a name and then complete it.

5. Use the same method to create a new volume for the remaining 20 GB.

After that, the D disk of the memory G is split into three parts: 82.5g, 6.5g, and 20g. There is no loss for the D disk.

One trick here is that a GB disk must be close to the original D disk. After the installation is complete, remove the disc and use the extended volume function to merge its space into the D disk. As I mentioned above, you need to be flexible. I use d disks, but you can use other F and G disks as well. We recommend that you do not use Windows System disks to open a knife, because there may be stubborn files that cannot be moved in it, which may prevent you from changing the partition size.

Step 2: modify the original version of the DVD to identify the MBR partition table.

In Windows, MBR partition tables are used by default. Therefore, most of the partitions on our hard disk are constructed using MBR partition tables. Apple uses the GPT partition table by default. One hard disk can only be used in MBR and GPT. If you change MBR to GPT, all data in all partitions on the disk will be deleted. Therefore, we need to make a small adjustment to the DVD so that it can be installed in the MBR partition table.

1. Download and install HFS-Explorer (the download links for all software in the article are included at the end of the article ).

2. If you have not installed Java VM (JRE Virtual Machine) before Windows, you also need to download and install it.

3. open HFS-explorer and click "file"-> "Load file system from File". In the pop-up box, find the DMG file of the snow leopard installation disc, and select OK in the pop-up box.

4. open the disc file, click "tool"-> "create disk image", select a path in the pop-up box, and click Save, if your hard disk space is insufficient and you do not have the 6.27gb space, you can also borrow the previous 20 GB partition. Wait a few minutes for the hard disk to wow.

5. Download The transmac software. Double-click it and select "run". Then, click "file"-> "Open disk image" to open the DMG file just generated.

6. Select "options"-> "Show Hidden Files" to show hidden files.

7. Add
Drag the osinstall file to the/system/library/privateframeworks/install. Framework/frameworks/osinstall. Framework/version/A/folder and click "yes" to overwrite the original file.
Drag the osinstall. mpkg file to the/system/installation/packages/folder and click "yes" to overwrite the original file.

Both are indispensable.

8. Directly disable transmac to complete the task.

Now we have made minor changes to the two files on the original Apple CD, and the snow leopard can be installed in the MBR partition.

If your computer does not use intel's dual-core or multi-core CPU, such as AMD's full range of CPU or Intel's Pentium Single-core and atom series, you also need to replace the mach_kernel kernel file in the root directory of the CD with the cracking kernel. The information on cracking the kernel can be found in other guides. Now, we usually use the modbin test7 to crack the kernel.

The modified DMG disc should be placed in the 6.5g hard disk.

1. Download the leopard hard disk installation Assistant, which is a software written by Chinese.

2. Right-click to open it as a system administrator (double-click XP to open it)

3. Select the modified DMG file from the image file. The target partition is a GB disk. Do not check the three check boxes below. The methods are outdated.

4. Click start to see the blue progress bar. It may take several minutes for the hard drive to cool. If you cannot start, it means that the 6.5g disk is not completely blank. In this case, you only need to open my computer and format the 6.5g partition with FAT32 again and then restart the program. Winvista and 7 users have to try multiple times here.

5. Don't worry if the program does not respond at this time. Wait patiently until the copy is completed.

After the copy is complete, if you double-click an edisk on my computer, an error will be prompted, because it has become an HFS + partition and Windows cannot be read, and you will be prompted to format it, do not format it again. Otherwise, you will try again.

Step 3: Start the snow leopard installation disk with bootthink

Download and install bootthink. Bootthink is also developed by Chinese people. Of course, it also uses the classic chameleon code and now supports snow leopard. After installation, the bootthink option is added to the Windows Startup menu. If you select bootthink in the Windows boot menu, a page similar to Apple boot camp will appear. You can select our 6.5g partition Mac OS X install DVD to start snow leopard.

If your CPU does not support 64-bit and ssse3 instruction sets, you must first press F8 on the boot camp interface to enter the command line and input-x32 to call the 32-bit system kernel, because bootthink calls the 64-bit kernel by default. If you do not know whether the CPU is supported, we recommend that you use a 32-bit kernel, because the 64-bit kernel will not bring any benefit unless your memory is larger than 4 GB. On the contrary, the 64-bit kernel may cause compatibility issues with some 32-bit kext files. Enter-x32 and click Enter to go to the Apple installation page.

However, this is only the ideal situation. In most cases, you still need more cracking to enter the disk installation interface. Here you can try your character first. If you can smoothly enter the installation interface, you have already been successful.

However, many people may encounter this situation here,

There are five languages indicating that the system will crash and the system needs to be restarted, also known as "five ". In the previous version, leopard has only four languages.

There is also a ban sign on apple.

The solution for the "five countries" is complicated. Later, troubleshooting will tell you how to do it. It is easier to solve the prohibition symbol. You only need to enable the SATA ahci function in the BIOS. For how to enable ahci, refer to your computer manual. If you enable the ahci function to make your original windows unable to start, you don't have to worry about it. After you disable ahci, you can install the ahci driver on Windows. For more information, see the Microsoft website. If your motherboard does not have the ahci function, or your hard disk is not SATA, You need to search for the kext file of your ata chip, such as the kext of Intel ich nanqiao chip. Then install kext on bootthink. I will introduce it in detail in the kext section below.

Troubleshooting

There are hundreds of errors in starting the disk. The following is an example of how to solve the problem. This is the step that requires the most skill and patience throughout the installation process. After the "five countries" problem occurs, first you need to know the cause. On the bootthink interface, press F8 and enter-V to enable the verbose "cool" mode. The cool mode will not solve the problem, however, you can view the startup error. If you need 32-Bit mode at the same time, you can enter-x32-v.

Example: appleintelcpupowermanagement Error

The "five countries" appears at the startup. After the restart, the system calls the refer mode and stops running to the following screen.

The text of panic appears on the fifth line. Panic originally meant panic, which indicates that the system encountered a fatal error. Panic is usually followed by the cause of the Error. Here is no hpets available ..., the last line of the section, that is, the above line of BSD process, indicates the module with errors. Here it is appleintelcpupowermanagement. After obtaining this information, Google can easily find a solution-install nullcpupowermanagement. in the following section, I will describe how to install kext.

If your system restarts automatically when it is turned on, without any clue, the problem may occur due to CPU/kernel problems. For example, as mentioned above, some CPUs need to crack the kernel, adjust the CPU settings in the bios, or start with-x32, or force a single core to start with CPUs = 1.

If the boot page stops going up halfway, but there is no "five countries", you can try-X to start the security mode.

Kext

Kext is short for Kernel extension. It is like a building block. It is built on the kernel and provides the extension function for the kernel. Black Apple Experts use this to crack kext to solve the startup problem. Therefore, some kext files need to be installed for cracking.

Thanks to the new function of chameleon, it is very easy to install kext under bootthink. kext is a suffix folder, and you can move it to the path c: \ Darwin \ System \ librarysl \ extensions. Bootthink loads these kext when starting Apple. In the past, kext had to be installed under apple, and permissions had to be handled.

I suggest you
C: \ Darwin \ System \ librarysl \ extensions. mkext
C: \ Darwin \ System \ librarysl \ x32 \ extensions. mkext
C: \ Darwin \ System \ librarysl \ x64 \ extensions. mkext
Delete, because we do not need these files, nor do we know whether these mkext files will conflict with the newly added kext.

Common kext summaries:

Fakesmc. kext -- bootthink is already included. This kext is required to simulate the SMC components on an apple machine.
Nullcpupowermanagement. kext -- disable the power management function to solve the hpet error of intelcpupowermanagement. kext.
Openhaltrestart. kext -- solves the problem of power failure after restart/Shutdown
Platformuuid. kext -- Solve UUID error 35 (for example)

Voodoops2controller. kext
Appleacpips2nub. kext combination
The two must be used together to provide support for the traditional PS/2 plug-in mouse/keyboard or notebook touchpad

Or
Appleps2controller. kext
Appleacpips2nub. kext combination

The two must be used together. If voodoo does not work, you can use appleps2controller instead.

These kext can be downloaded from the end of the Guide, and are compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit.

For the above kext files, you need to decrease their possibility from top to bottom. The first kext is basically necessary. The following is the corresponding kext that you encounter other problems. In addition, you may need other kext to solve more problems. You need to search for a solution on Google after the problem occurs. Some kext are compatible with 64-bit, but some are not. If kext is not compatible with 64-bit, you need to press F8 on the bootthink interface to enter the command line, enter-x32, and press Enter, in this case, snow leopard uses the 32-bit kernel mode and the 32-bit kext.

After this step is completed, you have completed 80% of the total process. The following steps are relatively simple. If you cannot enter the installation interface, the best way is to constantly try new solutions. Do not give up until you find that your hardware cannot be installed on the Apple system. If you cannot even see the apple image, check whether the previous copy DVD step is correct.

Step 4: install snow leopard

After selecting the language, the next step is to install it.

First, we need to convert the previously allocated 20 GB into HFS + partition and open the disk tool.

Select the 20 GB partition on the left, select "erase" on the right, select "Mac OS extension (Log Type)" in the format, and write your favorite name below, click "erase" in the lower right corner ". It's none of my business to erase windows by mistake. After cleaning, click the upper left corner of the cross.

Click Next to customize the selection

It is not recommended to install the printer files. It is not too late to download the files from the Internet. X11 should not be saved. Wine will use this software, which is a good thing for you to execute Win32 EXE files on apple.

Here you need to prepare an original Windows installation disk that can be started, so that you can fix possible startup problems at any time, because the snow leopard installer sets the snow leopard partition as "active partition ". In this way, the bootthink option menu and Windows cannot be accessed during boot.

To prevent you from being unable to access windows, let's review how to restore the Windows Startup zone in an emergency. (Not reinstallation)

After the user of Vista and 7 starts the CD, click "repair computer" and "Start Repair". The Wizard will automatically repair your computer.

XP users are advised to have a winpe in hand. Go to PE to open the disk management tool mentioned at the beginning of this guide and set the drive C back to the active partition.

Of course, the above operations are not required under normal circumstances. Click Install after preparing for disaster recovery. The following page is displayed.

Installation Complete

The computer will be restarted after a 0-second countdown. If the computer is dead, the students will remember to use openhaltrestart. kext next time. Advanced experts can seize these 30 seconds to open the terminal, use four fdisk commands to reset the C drive back to the active partition, in order to win all. For beginners, you can use the aforementioned windows disk installation method.

Restart the computer and enter bootthink. select a new volume to enter the snow leopard.

Step 5: Start snow leopard

In the past, how do you start the snow leopard CD and now how do you enter the system? Therefore, it is critical to be able to enter the installer.

It was successfully entered. Haha, snow leopard celebrated its entry into space. The red light is the famous Orion big nebula M42, which has been 90% successful.

Welcome to multiple languages and go to the settings page.

You can easily set the time zone after the next step. To ensure your Windows Time is not disturbed, you 'd better choose the Central Time Zone of London Greenwich, England, instead of Beijing time, if you select an African region near the equator, you will not be given a renewal. As follows.

After completion, you will enter the snow leopard Desktop

I was excited to enter the desktop. However, I found that, apart from being able to access the Internet, the system had no sound, resolution, and adjustment. Some friends did not even connect to the Internet. It was officially "Three nos ". To solve these problems, you must proceed to the next step.

Step 6 install other kext and dsdt rewrite and post-installation operations

If your computer configuration is very similar to the real Apple computer, you can run well without anything else. However, in most cases, you still need one or two kext to drive the hardware.

We recommend the omnipotent voodoohda. kext in terms of sound.

The most difficult video card cracking technology is, you need to find the latest solutions at any time. When I wrote this article, there were no solutions for integrated graphics cards for all shared system memory, except for the limited variety of integrated chips used by Apple computers, no acceleration function, resolution cannot be changed, always 1024 × 768.
And many independent graphics card support, for the graphics card cracking of the most cutting-edge information can be found in the netkas blog http://netkas.org.

The solution for Nic is the same. find more.

Dsdt is a part of the BIOS. Rewriting dsdt allows snow leopard to read some BIOS information to solve a series of annoying problems, such as sleep. Dsdt rewrite can be implemented without the need to brush the bios, without unnecessary risks. Use the dsdt tool to generate dsdt. AML and place it in the bootthink folder C: \ Darwin to rewrite dsdt. AML. It is worth noting that downloading another user's dsdt. AML is ineffective because the BIOS of each motherboard is different and you need to generate your own.

It is very troublesome to select the snow leopard partition during bootthink every time you start the boot. If you still need flags such as-x32, it will be more troublesome. After entering the F8 black and white page, select the 20 GB partition of the snow leopard and enter "# B = 1" and press Enter. Then, the snow leopard partition will be automatically loaded after one second. You can also customize the number of seconds. After entering snow leopard, download a tool named osx86 tool and save your-x32 and-V to the boot flag. In this way, you only need to select windows or bootthink when starting the system. After bootthink is selected, the system will automatically enter.

Finally, when everything goes well, it's time to get rid of the hard drive and retrieve GB space from the snow leopard installation DVD. Very easy. Use the first step to open disk management, align with the 6.5g partition, right-click to delete the volume. If you delete the snow leopard partition, you will be busy once. 6.5g becomes unallocated space, right-click the disk D to expand the volume, and press next to complete the task.

Software Download connection:

Osinstall. mpkg and osinstall files:Modified osintall. mpkg
Osinstall.mpkg.zip (949 K) Downloads: 23445,
Osinstall.zip (249 K) Downloads: 18400

Hfs-Explorer v0.21: [Signature
Transmac v8.1: http://d.namipan.com/d/72af7d315aa5ac77d283bb418d5f5bae16b610e200701300

Bootthink v2.3.18: http://www.damipan.com/file/3hioaEJ.html (for Mac installation)
Http://www.damipan.com/file/3hit9sL.html (for Windows installation)
Leopard hard drive installation assistant v0.3: plugin
Osx86 tools v1.0.150: http://d.namipan.com/downfile/OSX86Tools_1.0.150.zip/5a3f5261422a4bff33cbdca2fb8df50a160267fc01a32100

If you have any questions, refer:

Http://www.insanelymac.com/
Http://www.netkas.org/