Installation Guide 2

There are many different guides for many different kinds of situations, some use one hard drive, with Windows install already on it, some assume you bought a new system and hard drive. This little guide, meant for use with a hard drive that can be erased, is as simple as it can get when it can get when it comes to the basic installation of OSX86 on your PC. Again, this guide is meant for those with real Macs.

Before we get to the actual steps in the guide you need to:
1. Using any method you want, get your blank (or erasable) hard drive connected to a Mac.
2. Have the tiger-x86.tar.bz2 on your computer!

Lets get started!
1. We need to get the disk image out of tiger-x86.tar.bz2, unfortunately Stuffit Expander corrupts this particular compressed archive, so we will use the Terminal (in Applications/Utilities ).
Type this into a Terminal window: tar -jxvf then type a space, then drag the file "tiger-x86.tar.bz2" onto the window. Press "ENTER." The computer will show NO activity until it is done, this is normal! Depending on how fast you computer is, just go for a walk, or reread your favorite computer manual for an hour.

2. Okay, so now you should have a folder named "tiger-x86" in the same folder were the "tiger-x86.tar.bz2" file was. We have to make sure that the contents of that folder are not corrupt.
Go back into Terminal and type ls -l then type a space, then drag the "tiger-x86" folder into the Terminal window. Press "ENTER." You should now see this in the Terminal:
ls -l [where your tiger-x86 folder is]
-rw------- 1 [username]1474560 8 Aug 19:59 floppy.flp
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 6441910272 9 Aug 19:03 tiger-x86-flat.img
-rw------- 1 [username] 8664 9 Aug 20:00 tiger-x86.nvram
-rw------- 1 [username] 343 9 Aug 18:34 tiger-x86.vmdk
-rw------- 1 [username] 0 8 Aug 19:49 tiger-x86.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 [username] 1144 9 Aug 18:24 tiger-x86.vmx
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 32417 9 Aug 04:03 vmware-0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 30160 9 Aug 03:38 vmware-1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 32253 9 Aug 03:37 vmware-2.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 [username] 33479 9 Aug 20:00 vmware.log

If you don't have 6441910272 next to tiger-x86-flat.img you either downloaded some bad file from a bittorent site or you decompressed the archive wrong, and you should just stop right here.
If you do have 6441910272 next to tiger-x86-flat.img you are pretty much home-free! Time to install Tiger!

3. Go into Terminal and type df. Hit "ENTER." You should now see something like this in the Terminal window:
df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 147902984 71824768 75566216 49% /
devfs 185 185 0 100% /dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
1024 1024 0 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [243] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [297] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [297] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
/dev/disk2s2 204720 183224 21496 89% /Volumes/SomeVirtuaDisk
/dev/disk3s3 77903136 51976704 25926432 67% /Volumes/OSX86

My target disk is the "OSX86," so it is /dev/disk3s3, but don't use the "s3" bit because it is about partitions. I will call my disk /dev/disk3. Find out the /dev/disk of the disk you want to install OSX86 on, all info on this hard drive will be deleted. Just make sure you don't target the wrong disk, if you do you might wipe all data on your hard drives.

4. Before we copy the disk image to your hard drive unmount the target hard drive in the Finder by dragging its icon to the Trash. If you don't you will get a "device busy" error when copying.

5. Lets copy the disk image to your erasable/blank disk!
Open up a Terminal window and type "sudo dd if=" then drag the "tiger-x86-flat.img" image into the Terminal window, then type "of=/dev/disk43 bs=16k". Change the "/dev/disk43" to the location of the hard drive you got in step 3. Hit "ENTER." The computer will show NO activity until it is done, this is normal! Depending on how fast you computer is, just go for a walk, or reread your favorite computer manual for an hour. This might take a few hours. You might be able to change the "bs=16k." I do not know yet.
The Terminal will spit out some text when it is done.
The tiger-x86 disk will be remounted on the Desktop when the copying is done.

6. Okay, so after that is done, put that hard drive, that you just copied the disk image to, into your PC, I think it might need to be set as master (anyone sure of this?). Boot up your PC! Go ahead! It will boot into OSX86! The password for the user account on the image you just copied to your hard drive is "bovinity" You are almost good to go. You will find that your computer is very slow and sluggish, this is because a file on your computer is trying find the TPM chip that is on the Intel Developer Machines. Read onto "Things Everyone Will Need to Do After Installing OSX86" for tips on how to fix this, plus other problems you are likely having.