Installation Guide

Installation Guide

Become a paying developer and take an image of your developer's machine. Do not go a torrent site and type in the search bar "Mac Os X X86" and download "tiger-x86.tar.bz2", it will work, but this is illegal.

For 10.4.1: (Vmware Images)

1) Use Partition Magic or another partitioning program such as Acronis Suite to resize a PRIMARY partition so that you have at least 6700 megabytes of unallocated disk space before any logical partition. If you need more space then you can also just make a fat 32 partition which windows and Os X both recognize so you can transfer files between the two operating systems, but be sure to leave 6800 megabytes of unallocated space for Mac Os X itself.

2) Click on the start menu then click run to open up the run menu.

3) Type in diskpart and the command prompt should open up.

4) In the window that just came up type in "select disk X". (you replace x with the hard drive which you have configured in step one. example: "select disk 0"

5) then type in "create partition primary size=6690 id=af" This will create the partition in which you will install OS X on. If it said it was unable to create the partition make sure you have enough unallocated disk space after your first primary partition.

6)Decompress the archive tiger-x86.tar.bz2 which you put your disk image in when you imaged your hd with WinRAR. You can obtain this by clicking on this link WinRAR 3.51. Make sure you decompress it on a NTFS volume because this file is larger than 4 gigabytes and it will write a corrupted image if you do it on fat or fat 32.

7) Download a program called DD for Windows. It is a raw write program that works really well for writing to different file systems. You can get this by clicking this link: DD for Windows .

8) Extract DD for Windows to the same folder you extracted tiger-x86.tar.bz2 to on the NTFS volume. It should be in the same folder as tiger-x86-flat.img or whatever you named your hard drive image, (Also Nicknamed "The Deadmoo Image").

9) Click start then click run to bring up the run menu.

10) In the run menu type cmd to bring up the command prompt.

11) Then type in "x:" into the command prompt. (x stands for the drive that you have the image stored on.)

12) Into the command prompt type "cd\folder\tiger-x86\tiger-x86\"(you can change the names after "cd\" if you keep your image somewhere else. each "\" represents a folder and "cd" is telling the command prompt to switch to that folder.

13) Now type into the command prompt "dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\HarddiskY\PartitionX bs=512 skip=63 --progress" You change "Y" to the hard disk number you partition is on and x to which partition number you have created the os x partition on using diskpart so for an example: "dd if=tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2 bs=512 skip=63 --progress. Note: harddisk0 is what it will be for most of you if you only have one hard drive. It should now be copying OS X to your hard drive. Note that -- progress is actually two dashes.

14) Give it about an hour or two ( That's how long it takes for me, however depending on your hardware it could take much longer). Go grab a drink at this point or play solitaire till it's done.

15) When it stops counting and your hard drive is idol it is installed. After this you probably want to dual boot. To do this simply click on the dual booting link to the left.

For 10.4.x Install Dvds:

1) Use partition magic or other partition software such as Acronis's suite or another partitioning program to resize a PRIMARY partition so that you have at least 6700 megabytes of unallocated disk space before any logical partition. If you need more space then you can also just make a fat 32 partition which windows and Os X both recognize so you can transfer files between the two operating systems, but be sure to leave 6800 megabytes of unallocated space for Mac Os X itself.

2) Click on the start menu then click run to open up the run menu.

3) Type in diskpart and the command prompt should open up.

4) In the window that just came up type in "select disk X". (you replace x with the hard drive which you have configured in step one. example: "select disk 0"

5) then type in "create partition primary size=6690 id=af" This will create the partition in which you will install OS X on. If it said it was unable to create the partition make sure you have enough unallocated disk space after your first primary partition.

6)Reboot you computer.

7)Put in your install DVD (your DVD may or may not need patching, any one that you get from the store will need patching and you )

8) Go into the utilities menu at the top of your screen once you have booted off of the DVD and go into the disk utility and format your AF partition. DO NOT SET THIS PARTITION AS ACTIVE, LEAVE THE FAT32 ONE ACTIVE.

9) Follow the setup directions till you are done and enjoy.