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Ello!
A complete part-newbie here. Complete, because this is/will be my first foray into the "Hackintosh Scene", but partly because I'm not a newbie concerning computers in general. I know my way around linux distros, Windowses and Macs. I used to run a mac (exclusively) for years, but that was a long time ago. I still have that Dual-1GHz G4 PowerMac, but let's face it, it IS old. Latest it can do is a 10.5 and being a PPC.. yeah, well, it's not fast
But the point is, any instructions of info you have does not need to be in a any-fool-can-do-it -format. I do not fear the command line
Anyway. My main computers is x64 Win7 machine, but Windows is... well, Windows. I play games on it.
But! I have a secondary machine, a Lenovo/IBM ThinkCentre M55 (C2D E6600 @2.4GHz, 4Gb RAM) with a slew of additional hardware: nVidia GT240 (currently installed),and others that I can swap if it is better: nVidia 8400GS, Radeon 3600Pro and a Radeon 4200 (but installing that would require modifying the cooler) and a couple of HDDs. A few USB sticks, couple of different WiFi USB sticks and a handful of USB audio dongles. The machine currently runs a multiboot selection of ElementaryOS Luna, Haiku R4 and Ubuntu 0414 (on a shared 80Gb disk, with an unused spare 160Gb available).
The "dream" (so to speak) is to have that machine running newest-that-it-can-run Mac OS X as a primary and the possibility to boot into Haiku and some flavor of (Debian-based) linux.
So you think that would be possible?
I read a couple of "getting started" guides, but I can't follow any of them to the letter. Mostly because most of them are either dead links, or private/removed YouTube videos or some such. The ones that are available rely on the availability of a recent Mac computer.
I do have a Mac mini (2006), but as that is only capable of running 10.6.8 (which it is), I cannot download the Mavericks installer on it (at least that I know of I can't). Note here: I'm not adverse of buying any required pieces of software, no. I don't just want a "free mac". I'm perfectly willing to pay for the OS or possibly any small hardware additions, I just can't afford a full-blown Mac right now. (Also I really would like to get to use this "spare" computer and multiboot it with those systems). But with only the Mac mini, I can't even buy the OS from the Apple Store, because it is not supported.
So, could someone (please) direct me to somewhere that has more info, or tell me a bit more of what I need to do.
What I THINK I need to do is:
a) A way to download (and buy) the Mavericks Installer. (I believe the best bet is to download it to the Mac mini?)
b) some way to make a bootable media (USB preferred, I do have 16Gb stick, but DVD is a possibility).
c) transfer needed kexts/other "tweaks" to allow it to run on the M55.
d) configure the M55 with optimum hardware (I'd hope the GT240 would be OK, as it is the most powerful of those that I can easily install).
e) way to boot and install the system to the M55
f) post-install configuration and installing required drivers.
of which c) and f) I have absolutely no idea of what I need to do.
But mostly, I need to know if this is indeed even possible. I can settle for single-booting Mac OS X on the M55 if multiboot is out of the question, but can the M55 even run Mac OS X without modification and if so, which version?
A complete part-newbie here. Complete, because this is/will be my first foray into the "Hackintosh Scene", but partly because I'm not a newbie concerning computers in general. I know my way around linux distros, Windowses and Macs. I used to run a mac (exclusively) for years, but that was a long time ago. I still have that Dual-1GHz G4 PowerMac, but let's face it, it IS old. Latest it can do is a 10.5 and being a PPC.. yeah, well, it's not fast
But the point is, any instructions of info you have does not need to be in a any-fool-can-do-it -format. I do not fear the command line Anyway. My main computers is x64 Win7 machine, but Windows is... well, Windows. I play games on it.
But! I have a secondary machine, a Lenovo/IBM ThinkCentre M55 (C2D E6600 @2.4GHz, 4Gb RAM) with a slew of additional hardware: nVidia GT240 (currently installed),and others that I can swap if it is better: nVidia 8400GS, Radeon 3600Pro and a Radeon 4200 (but installing that would require modifying the cooler) and a couple of HDDs. A few USB sticks, couple of different WiFi USB sticks and a handful of USB audio dongles. The machine currently runs a multiboot selection of ElementaryOS Luna, Haiku R4 and Ubuntu 0414 (on a shared 80Gb disk, with an unused spare 160Gb available).
The "dream" (so to speak) is to have that machine running newest-that-it-can-run Mac OS X as a primary and the possibility to boot into Haiku and some flavor of (Debian-based) linux.
So you think that would be possible?
I read a couple of "getting started" guides, but I can't follow any of them to the letter. Mostly because most of them are either dead links, or private/removed YouTube videos or some such. The ones that are available rely on the availability of a recent Mac computer.
I do have a Mac mini (2006), but as that is only capable of running 10.6.8 (which it is), I cannot download the Mavericks installer on it (at least that I know of I can't). Note here: I'm not adverse of buying any required pieces of software, no. I don't just want a "free mac". I'm perfectly willing to pay for the OS or possibly any small hardware additions, I just can't afford a full-blown Mac right now. (Also I really would like to get to use this "spare" computer and multiboot it with those systems). But with only the Mac mini, I can't even buy the OS from the Apple Store, because it is not supported.
So, could someone (please) direct me to somewhere that has more info, or tell me a bit more of what I need to do.
What I THINK I need to do is:
a) A way to download (and buy) the Mavericks Installer. (I believe the best bet is to download it to the Mac mini?)
b) some way to make a bootable media (USB preferred, I do have 16Gb stick, but DVD is a possibility).
c) transfer needed kexts/other "tweaks" to allow it to run on the M55.
d) configure the M55 with optimum hardware (I'd hope the GT240 would be OK, as it is the most powerful of those that I can easily install).
e) way to boot and install the system to the M55
f) post-install configuration and installing required drivers.
of which c) and f) I have absolutely no idea of what I need to do.
But mostly, I need to know if this is indeed even possible. I can settle for single-booting Mac OS X on the M55 if multiboot is out of the question, but can the M55 even run Mac OS X without modification and if so, which version?
