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Installing OS X Snow Leopard Part One

Installing OS X Snow Leopard Part One

In the past, installing OS X on non-Apple hardware used to be a long journey, which involved gathering a lot of kexts (kernel extensions or drivers), and manually tweaking and installing lots of files...

Those days are over !
Fortunately, tonymacx86 developed iBoot + MultiBeast...

So, lets download what we need:

• tonymacx86s iBoot: This Bootable CD image will let us boot and start the installer from the OS X Snow Leopard DVD.
  Depending on our Graphics card, we should pick either the iBoot nVidia, or the iBoot ATI.
  Its also possible to use the iBoot Supported, which includes a Vanilla Kernel for supported processors (i3, i5, i7).
  
  
  
• Mac OS X Update: Earlier Snow Leopard disks included the 10.6.0 version, while the last ones ship with 10.6.3.
  If yours is the 10.6.0, youll want to download the Mac OS X 10.6.4 Combo Update, which includes all point releases.
  But if you have the newer 10.6.3, you can save some bandwidth, and download the Mac OS X 10.6.4 Update.
• tonymacx86s MultiBeast: tonymacx86s wonderful post-intallation utility.
  MultiBeast allows to easily customize an OSX installation, adding needed kexts and configuration files.
  
  
  
• DSDT: One of the advantages of using a DSDT is that it makes your hardware "look" more friendly/Mac-like to OS X drivers, allowing for a more Vanilla (with less extraneous kexts) installation.
  You can extract and edit your own DSDT, or download a pre-edited one from tonymacx86 DSDT database.
  I contributed edits for the GA-P55M-UD4, so those are readily available in the database.

Lets do it !

• Unpack iBoot, and burn the iso image to a CD-R (Some users reported problems with some CD-RW disks and DVDs)
• Save the Mac OS X 10.6.4 update to a USB Stick
• Unpack MultiBeast, and save it to a USB Stick
• Save the downloaded DSDT to the USB Stick

In Part Two, well start the actual OS X installation...

Available link for download