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Forum Topic: Use Mac Osx On Pc System (i386)

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BigFuzzyKitten

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Posted at: 5/10/08 12:25 AM

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yeah my parents have this old mac with OSX installed that they ditched when they got vista, but shitty specs and very few files (<9Gb HDD) and they say i can do whatever i want with it etc

Windows is a peice of shit and just fucked out on me while trying to type this post

"SERVICE PAK 3 COULD NOT BE INSTALLED UR SYSTEM MIGHT BE FUCKED UP NOW WOULD U LIKE TO REBOOT LOLOL???"

Linux is awesome but doesn't support every other crucial thing, and ubuntu hardy is bugtacular...
So I'm hoping a mac would be better.

I've dual booted with linux and such before but my question is, if I transfer absolutely everything from that comps HDD to a new partition on mine(and set the partition flag to boot with an ubuntu live CD to test)...

WILL IT BOOT?

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Posted at: 5/10/08 08:57 AM

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It won't be possible. Macs that old used PowerPC processors. The architecture of the processor is different from the intel/amd processors used on pc's. Any program compiled for a powerpc processor won't run on Intel/compatible hardware, directly at least.

On the other hand, you may be able to use a powerpc based virtual machine. What you will do is load the virtual machine program onto a different OS (can be either Linux or Windows), and then run OSX within the virtual machine. A virtual machine is a program that emulates a hardware environment, and in doing so allows you to run one operating system, called the guest )S, inside another operating system that controls the hardware, known as the host OS.

This approach does have some limitations. For one, the operating system running the virtual machine is what controls the hardware. If you run OSX under windows, windows will still suffer from whatever stability issues you are having, and this will affect the guest OS as well. If you are running linux, you still won't be able to run any hardware linux can't run, with the exception that if your virtual machine is capable of doing so, you can give control of serial/usb based peripherals over to the guest OS, which will be able to run them so long as OSx has the drivers. Based on my own experience, though, the host OS won't be able use those peripherals while the guest OS is using them.


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Posted at: 5/10/08 01:36 PM

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The official Mac OS X won`t boot on your system directly. Some hackers from the OSX86project have patched Mac so you can use it on a pc. You can download it with torrent. But it`s illegal to do this, because the EULA from Apple said you may not install it on a different computer than a apple computer. I`ve tried it to install on VMWare, i haven`t got this installed...


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Wreckages

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At 5/10/08 01:36 PM, Juicyhil wrote: The official Mac OS X won`t boot on your system directly. Some hackers from the OSX86project have patched Mac so you can use it on a pc. You can download it with torrent

theoretically, i want to do this.

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At 5/10/08 01:45 PM, Wreckages wrote:
At 5/10/08 01:36 PM, Juicyhil wrote: The official Mac OS X won`t boot on your system directly. Some hackers from the OSX86project have patched Mac so you can use it on a pc. You can download it with torrent
theoretically, i want to do this.

oh, I saw some of those torrents during a search about the subject.

I'm now going to hypothetically do that, thanks. A Subconscious "fu" to whoever within apple decided that. I got the freakin license AND powerpc hardware, just don't want to use it >:(

They themselves switched to intel anyways :)
At 5/10/08 08:57 AM, VigilanteNighthawk wrote: powerpc based virtual machine.

thanks for the help, but I'm interested in using it at full speed as a replacement

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Posted at: 5/11/08 10:54 PM

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If you want OS X to run in any form or fashion on an i386 natively then you'll need a version of OS X that runs on an Intel platform (i.e. Tiger or Leopard.) Actually I remember a hack a few years ago that allowed you to install a PPC-based OS X to the harddrive and when booted it would run; I believe part of it was having a low level emulator do a lot of work, but I can't remember all the details (I only heard about it, and that was circa 2004 or so.)

If you created a disk image of a PPC-based OS X system, it might be feasible to boot with a PowerPC emulator such as PearPC, but I've never experimented with it.

thanks 'bekko.
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