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.
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Thanx very Much
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◦mount -t hfs /dev/diskXsX /System/Installation/Packages
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Claudiu:
You aren't supposed to use it literally. It's likely disk0s3 but read the linked article to see exactly which one you'll be using.
Hi,
I see that you can directly "edit" the mpkg file, which is very impressive and cut down a lot of headache, however is it possible to edit the path it point to read the data?
like in http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtop…
I trying to get it work in Snow Leopard, will update if i get it done.
Thanks !
Hi
I cant get this method to work on a SL.
Any suggestion?
I read need to change /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework/Frameworks/OSInstall.framework/Versions/A/
but not sure how to go abt doing it
Hi
I would also like it very much, if you could make this work on a Snow Leopard retail DVD.
Tim