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Easiest and Fastest way to get Mac OS x86 working (Using a Mac)

August 16, 2005 by in Howto,Tech with 9 Comments

This was sent in via Tom:

If you are not familiar with Linux, or do not want to use DD in Windows try this if you have a real Mac running OSX:

1. Download and extract “tiger-x86.tar.bz2″
2. Mount “tiger-x86-flat.img”
3. Use “Carbon Copy Cloner” to clone the image into a real hard drive connected to your mac (Firewire, USB, Internal…)
4. Put that hard drive as primary master on a PC that’s SSE2 capable, and enjoy.


  • Derek

    LOL this would be the quickest way. Unfortunately, CCC would require that we have OSX running already considering that it is an OSX application. I like the simplicity though.

  • Rich

    This was the process I followed (I also have an iBook) but the final result was a computer that booted to the “Non system disk or disk error” message.

    Back to the drawing board…

  • obskure

    I got the same message Rich.

    I checked the disc for integrity in disc utility, everything looked fine.

    I also tried the pc only way and same deal there.

  • kwanbis

    what i wonder is if a ghost image would work ..

  • Zack

    I’m using an external lacie firewire disk and a vaio s, but apparently there is no way to let the vaio boot from that disk? Any help?

  • http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2005/08/3947/ FooBar

    I used dd on my powerbook to write the image out to a drive in an external enclosure successfully. Plugged the usb drive into an intel machine and it booted although my mouse and keyboard stop working after Aqua starts.

    If you use OS X to write out the image make sure that you unmount the destination drive first. Also, make sure that you are dd’ing to a device like /dev/disk1 and *not* a disk slice such as /dev/disk1s3.

  • Rick Jones

    So should I just use LimeWire to find the zipped file, or can it be downloaded from somewhere? Acquisition (which uses LimeWire servers) can’t seem to find it.

  • Rick Jones

    NVM, I found the file. You can get a torrent from Seedler.

  • jimbo

    when i try to do this with my iBook, when i am authenticating carbon copy cloner it freezes. any ideas? (or other ways to do this?)

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