Recently, I was playing around with installing Leopard on my Dell, and I thought I'd try to get it running in a Virtual Machine. So, I popped in the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD, and installed it without too much trouble, actually. I thought I'd record the settings that I used, as getting the Kalyway installs working is highly hardware dependent. My machine is a quad-core 64-bit HP p6310y machine with an AMD Athlon II X4630 processor, with 8GB of RAM.
I looked at the below guide, but the only thing that I used from it was the BIOS settings, which was a smart idea I thought. The rest I did from memory and via trial and error.
http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=45
First, I set up my VM to be an 'Other' OS (there's no Hackintosh OS), and increased the size of the RAM (Other defaults to 256MB ) to over 512MB. If you have too little RAM, the install will simply hang.
I removed the sound and floppy from my VM, as I didn't need that. Then I booted into the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD, and hit F2 immediately to enter the BIOS. I used the setup instructions in the above URL to nuke the serial ports, parallel port, and floppy from the BIOS, hoping it would boot quicker. Then I hit F10 to save the BIOS settings and boot into the DVD.
When Kalyway booted into the setup, I went into Utilities->Disk Editor, and selected the Partition tab, and partitioned my disk (Volume Scheme is 1 Partition) to be a JFS disk, and selected the "Options" button under the disk to change the bootloader to MBR. I then partitioned my disk.
Next, I selected Continue->accepted the EULA, and selected CUSTOMIZE. I used the default (sleep) kernel, and unchecked everything to make it clean. As I had an AMD processor, I checked the AMD Patch 1 and the Boot_with_legacy_flag. That is what I considered the bare minimum to test the machine. Later on, after I knew that this worked, I went back and messed with the Network settings, but first I wanted to try out the OS, as minimal as possible.
Note, Mobo_Chipsets will cause a booting loop for me, so I unselected these.
Next, I selected Continue, and I SKIPPED the disk check (this adds an hour or two). When I came back a few hours later, my Leopard was ready to be set up.
That was it. Next, I reinstalled it again with the Network Drivers to try to get Ethernet working.... but I couldn't get this to work, even with all the Network Drivers (except wireless) loaded. Thus, I have a working Leopard, but without any Ethernet. It's mostly useless.
I looked at the below guide, but the only thing that I used from it was the BIOS settings, which was a smart idea I thought. The rest I did from memory and via trial and error.
http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=45
First, I set up my VM to be an 'Other' OS (there's no Hackintosh OS), and increased the size of the RAM (Other defaults to 256MB ) to over 512MB. If you have too little RAM, the install will simply hang.
I removed the sound and floppy from my VM, as I didn't need that. Then I booted into the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD, and hit F2 immediately to enter the BIOS. I used the setup instructions in the above URL to nuke the serial ports, parallel port, and floppy from the BIOS, hoping it would boot quicker. Then I hit F10 to save the BIOS settings and boot into the DVD.
When Kalyway booted into the setup, I went into Utilities->Disk Editor, and selected the Partition tab, and partitioned my disk (Volume Scheme is 1 Partition) to be a JFS disk, and selected the "Options" button under the disk to change the bootloader to MBR. I then partitioned my disk.
Next, I selected Continue->accepted the EULA, and selected CUSTOMIZE. I used the default (sleep) kernel, and unchecked everything to make it clean. As I had an AMD processor, I checked the AMD Patch 1 and the Boot_with_legacy_flag. That is what I considered the bare minimum to test the machine. Later on, after I knew that this worked, I went back and messed with the Network settings, but first I wanted to try out the OS, as minimal as possible.
Note, Mobo_Chipsets will cause a booting loop for me, so I unselected these.
Next, I selected Continue, and I SKIPPED the disk check (this adds an hour or two). When I came back a few hours later, my Leopard was ready to be set up.
That was it. Next, I reinstalled it again with the Network Drivers to try to get Ethernet working.... but I couldn't get this to work, even with all the Network Drivers (except wireless) loaded. Thus, I have a working Leopard, but without any Ethernet. It's mostly useless.
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