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Easily Install Mac OS X Leopard on an MBR Formatted Disk

Ugh, eff a GUID formatted disk! This is by far the easiest way to get OS X Leopard (Retail/Vanilla) to install on an MBR formatted disk. I've gone through about 400 other tutorials and most were so complex. This method, which consists of about 20 simple steps has worked like a charm so far. I suggest reading the tutorial, but it's pretty much as easy as this:

Create a temp 6 gig partition. Then, in a Terminal window, run:

• cp -R /System/Installation/Packages/* /Volumes/TempPart
• cd /Volumes/TempPart
• mkdir temp
• mv OSInstall.mpkg temp/
• cd temp
• xar -x -f OSInstall.mpkg
• cat Distribution | sed "s/eraseOptionAvailable='true'//g" > Distribution2
• mv Distribution2 Distribution
• rm -Rf OSInstall.mpkg
• xar -c -f OSInstall.mpkg *
• mv OSInstall.mpkg ../
• cd
• rm -Rf temp
• mount
• cd /
• umount /Volumes/TempPart
• mount -t hfs /dev/diskXsX /System/Installation/Packages

Getting Windows 7 and OSX Leopard to dual-boot on a Hackintosh/Hackbook has not been easy. I'll be posting how I did it once I've successfully booted into both.