The adventures of Apple

It has been a long time to covet Apple's operating system. She is famous for its elegance, elegance, and stability, just like a beautiful white swan. Many PC users are conquered by the beautiful style of Mac OS X, unfortunately, Mac OS X, which can previously be called an art boutique, can only run on Apple's Macintosh series computers. However, Steve Jobs allowed her to "marry" the Intel Platform. In this way, we can taste the swan meat. You need to know that Mac OS X is not only an operating system, but also a work of art and a life attitude.

Summary: Install Mac OS X 10.4.7 tiger in the extended partition of the hard disk and boot it into the system through windows.

Local Configuration:

Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2)
CPU amd sempron (TM) 3000 + Processor
The processor supports the instruction set MMX (+) and 3 dnow! (+), SSE, sse2, sse3, x86-64
Clock speed 2.22 GHz
Chipset NVIDIA c51
NVIDIA geforce 6100
Master hard drive WDC WD1600BB-14RDA0
Display plug-and-play Monitor (lg (Korea) gsm4432 l1752s)
Audio Device RealTek ac97 audio (motherboard integration)
Network Adapter RealTek rtl8139 family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
Memory 512 MB
Convert keyboard and mouse to USB Interface

Version of Mac OS x to be installed: Mac OS X 10.4.7 tiger contains JAS cracking files (also released in the cracked version 10.4.8), which can be downloaded from verycd.

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Mac OS X adopts the Darwin kernel. The Darwin kernel is a variant of the UNIX system, and of course has high stability of UNIX operating systems. Mac OS X also has a completely new design called the aqua user interface. The Aqua interface is very beautiful, with a smooth and dynamic water flow, beautifully designed icons, menus, and parking bars. It is said that many Vista elements imitate apple.
Although Apple is good, it is not easy to open a mouth. It is quite difficult to make Mac OS and Windows coexist in a peaceful manner, because these two are rivals, so they are almost "You have no me", and I have a deep understanding of this.
Of course, porting Mac OS to a PC platform requires certain conditions:
First of all, in terms of hardware requirements, although Mac can be installed on a common PC, it needs to be verified by a special chip, but fortunately there are cracked versions circulating on the Internet, integrated with crack patches. Mac provides relatively good support for Intel platforms, but both Intel and AMD platforms require CPU support for sse2 instruction sets and better support for sse3 (cpu z and other software can be used for testing ). In addition, Mac does not provide good support for NVIDIA graphics cards, but ATI graphics cards. In addition, Mac does not seem to support the PS/2 mouse and does not support the PS/2 keyboard on the local machine. Therefore, to change the USB keyboard, you can use the USB to PS/2 adapter, you can convert the keyboard and mouse of PS/2 To a USB interface at the same time, which costs about 10 RMB. In addition, the standard Apple keyboard is different from the ordinary PC keyboard, although it is not too difficult to use. The last and most dangerous problem is hard disk partitioning.
There are different opinions about hard disk partitioning. If you have a Windows operating system on your PC, you can choose from three solutions: one is to use a hard disk to install Mac, it is best to remove the Windows hard disk before installation to achieve physical isolation. This solution is the simplest and safest, but requires a new hard disk; second, leave a space in the Windows primary partition to install Mac, as shown in:

─ ── C disk-rj0000af (for OSX) 1270000d disk (Logical Disk) rj0000e disk (Logical Disk) Snapshot
Primary shard-expanded shard-Primary shard

After the installation is complete, Apple can start up normally, but it is usually troublesome to open up a space in the primary partition, because, after windows is installed on disk C, the system automatically sets disk C as the primary partition. Generally, only one primary partition is set, and the rest are logical partitions, if you re-partition the drive C, windows may fail to start (the system may fail to start due to re-partitioning the system disk. INI). This solution is also difficult to implement and is not suitable for Hard Disk Partitions of most people. The third solution is to install Mac in the extended partition, as shown in:

─ ── Drive C-elastic distributed drive (Logical Disk) elastic distributed AF (for OSX) elastic
Primary shard-Primary shard ── ─ expanded shard ── ─ Growth

Then, use Windows to boot MAC through certain settings. This solution is troublesome, but it is suitable for Hard Disk Partitions of most users. I also use this solution. Of course, I also saw a saying on the Internet that a hard disk can only have two partitions, one for Windows and one for Mac, which is obviously unnecessary or inappropriate, after all, it is wise to separate programs from data.
Another more conservative method is to use vmwarevm on Windows to install Apple. This method has low risks and difficulty, but has high requirements on sub-host performance and low running efficiency, I feel like a "nest ".
Using the third solution is quite troublesome to implement, especially for inexperienced people, I failed to install it four times and finally succeeded in the fifth time. It is worth mentioning that for the first time, since I have installed many versions of Linux operating systems before, due to this experience, I have separated some unallocated space on the hard disk, I hope that when installing Mac, she can detect it and then allocate it automatically, but unfortunately the system does not provide a allocation scheme. In fact, when I use the partition tool that comes with Darwin, I first select the unallocated space, then, click "partition" and confirm. I thought this was only an operation on the unallocated space, or the modification was only made in the memory and not written to the hard disk. The result was surprising: in a short time, the data on my entire hard disk was "wiped out", the hard disk partition table was gone, all the data was lost, and the system certainly could not enter. But fortunately, I have seen a lot of things like this, so don't be in a panic, and then repartition and reload the system falsely. Otherwise, it will increase the difficulty of data recovery and even the data will no longer be recovered. In this case, you can find some system maintenance tools to scan the hard disk and recreate the hard disk partition table, so that the data is safe. If the "ebios read error" error occurs during installation, it indicates that your installation file is faulty (Please verify the MD5 code in advance) or the disc is faulty: the disk is damaged or the disk is contaminated, I also encountered this problem. If the installation is complete, the boot from the installation CD will not go into the system (the reason for activation of non-Mac partition is described in detail later) you can also see a forbidden sign near apple on the startup interface, which indicates that you have not installed the cracking package, or the cracked file is not properly selected, note that you must select "custom installation" in the installation type, remove unnecessary language packs and printer drivers, and select the appropriate cracking file. Next, let's take a look at how to install Mac in the extended partition of the hard disk and start it with Windows boot: to do this, you must first sharpen the tool. First, make sure that your CPU supports the sse2 instruction set. Then, prepare the following things: Install a DVD (including a cracking package) on Mac OS X tiger. This can be downloaded from verycd using eMule, burn after confirming that MD5 verification is correct. Some necessary system maintenance disks include pqmagic, Ghost, diskgenius, and other tool software. We recommend that you install tool disks in the dark red leaves or old autumn, you can use BT to download from 5q; help windows to guide the System File tboot located in Mac OS X of the extended partition, which can be searched and downloaded on Baidu; of course, you must have some system maintenance experience and patience. After preparation, you can install it:
1. Use pqmagic to free up a partition in the extended partition of the hard disk (if there is a problem with the free space in the primary partition), we recommend 10 Gb or more for 6 GB. Format the volume as FAT32 or NTFS. You can mark it as "MacOSX". The reason why the format is not important at present is to take a place, for security, you can use ghost to back up the windows system to the mobile hard disk and use diskgenius to back up the hard disk partition table to the USB disk.
2. Place the engraved Mac OS X installation disk into the optical drive, restart the computer to start it from the disc, and guide Darwin to install the Wizard program. Under normal circumstances, the installer cannot identify the alternative installation partition, even if there is no allocated space on the hard disk, it will not provide you with an automatic allocation scheme, so you need to select the disk partitioning tool in the Darwin application for manual partitioning. Select the MacOSX partition you have prepared in the partition list provided by the partitioning tool, and then select "erase" (in fact, it is equivalent to formatting it to the Mac partition format ), in this way, you can find the installation partition.
3. select "Custom" for the installation type, remove unnecessary language packs and printer drivers (which can save about 1 GB of space), and select to crack the patch package, it seems like Jas. Choose to install the corresponding cracking file based on your own system conditions. For example, if the CPU only supports sse2, do not select sse3. This should also be based on what you feel. If you select multiple, it will be okay if there is no conflict, then you can install it.
4. after the installation is complete, the system usually does not go into the system (including windows), unless you are booting from the installation disc, because after the installation, the system automatically sets the Mac partition as the active partition, the Mac is mounted on the extended partition, And the partition cannot be properly guided if it crosses 1024 cylinders. Note that the MBR is not modified during Mac installation. In this case, you need to use the system to maintain the optical disk, go to pqmagic and activate the partition where windows is located (it seems that you can use the "Operation ---> advanced ---> set as function" option of PQ). Of course, you can also boot to DoS from the CD, then use fdisk to activate the partition. In this way, you can go to Windows after restarting.
5. after entering windows, upload the tboot file to the root directory of the system disk, and then modify the boot. INI (what is this and how to edit it, you can ask Baidu), add "C: \ tboot =" MacOSX "" at the end, "" text can be customized, note that all are English characters. Chain0 is also used on the Internet, but this file does not seem to guide the Mac in the extended partition.
6. The last step is to restart the system. In the Windows Startup menu, you can select MacOSX to enter the Mac OS X system. After necessary settings, you can finally unveil the Mac! Mac is not only elegant and elegant, but you no longer need to be infected by viruses. Moreover, software on Mac platforms is also rich: Photoshop, adobeacrobat, and macrosoft office all have Mac versions, in addition, the daily needs of Bt, diantao, QQ, MSN, Chinese input, and media playback can basically be met. I believe that as Mac is opened to the PC platform, more and more applications will be applied.
I have finally finished writing this article. It is also a matter of recent days to contact Apple OS. The omissions are inevitable. You are welcome to criticize and correct them.

@ 2007/04/22 USTC