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Taming Apple’s Tiger for Your PC

By Adam Myers ⋅ September 1, 2005 ⋅ Tags: apple, osx86

There are not enough “How I Installed OS X on my Dell.” Here’s my contribution, in twelve easy steps.

1) Get tiger-x86.tar.bz2

2) Unpack tiger-x86-flat.img to a separate NTFS hard drive

3) Load up the system with the Knoppix Live CD

4) If the drive from step 2 is external, attach it and let Knoppix automount it

5) Open up a terminal

• Use su to become root
• Switch to the directory Knoppix mounted from step 4 (look in /mnt/)
• Execute ls –all to verify that the .img file exists
• Execute dd bs=1048576 if=./tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/hda, where hda is the *drive* you wish to install to. hda=drive 1, hdb=drive 2, etc

6) When it has finished copying, reboot and select the drive you want as the startup from the BIOS or boot menu

7) With some luck, you should be staring at an Apple logon screen

• If the system hangs, Boot into safe mode by using the –x parameter at the Darwin boot screen

Log in as “deadmoo” password “bovinity”

9) Create your own account, Apple Menu->System Pref-> Users.

10) Relogin as yourself. It is safe to remove “deadmoo”

11) Finally, delete the file /System/Library/Extentions/AppleTPMACPI.ktext

• Hold down the Windows key and empty trash if the system complains the file is in use
• Reboot

12) Profit!

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