{"id":469,"date":"2010-02-21T20:39:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohanjith.net\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2010-02-23T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T08:19:37","slug":"installing-mac-os-x-10-5-8-on-amd-athlon-x2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/installing-mac-os-x-10-5-8-on-amd-athlon-x2.html","title":{"rendered":"Installing Mac OS X 10.5.8 on AMD Athlon X2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-471 alignright\" style=\"margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px;\" title=\"Mac OS X 10.5.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mac_os_x_10.5.8.png\" alt=\"Mac OS X 10.5.8\" width=\"313\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mac_os_x_10.5.8.png 313w, https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mac_os_x_10.5.8-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/>I managed to install Mac OS X 10.5.8 on an AMD Athlon X2 system after little trouble. I&#8217;ll post the procedure to make sure if I have to do it again I can easily refer and someone trying to do the same can save the trouble. This will be composed of a series of posts, a post per step.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time find out the specifications of your box. I&#8217;m using GIGABYTE GAPM61SME-S2 motherboard with AMD Athlon X2 CPU. If your specifications are just like mine go ahead and download all the files listed bellow, otherwise download 1-3 and then look for kexts for your motherboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>System specification<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMD Athlon X2 2800<\/li>\n<li>nVidia GeForce 6100\/nForce 405 chipset<\/li>\n<li>1 x 2 GB of DDR2 DIMM<\/li>\n<li>On board ethernet (nForce 10\/1oo Mbit)<\/li>\n<li>Realtek ALC883 CODEC chip<\/li>\n<li>SATA HDD (nForce sata controller)<\/li>\n<li>USB Mouse<\/li>\n<li>USB Keyboard<\/li>\n<li>DVD Drive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Downloads<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 DVD (Google and find out, you will have to download via Bit torrent)<\/li>\n<li>Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update (http:\/\/keti.ws\/95282)<\/li>\n<li>Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update (http:\/\/keti.ws\/95283)<\/li>\n<li>nForceLAN (http:\/\/keti.ws\/94281)<\/li>\n<li>AppleNForceATA (http:\/\/keti.ws\/95281)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Patch the iPC DVD image (Otherwise the DVD will never boot)<\/li>\n<li>Install Mac OS X 10.5.6<\/li>\n<li>Remove all Intel kexts (Improves the boot time)<\/li>\n<li>Install Mac OS X 10.5.7 update<\/li>\n<li>Install Mac OS X 10.5.8 update<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Await step 1, Patching the iPC DVD image tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-like\" style=\"\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/installing-mac-os-x-10-5-8-on-amd-athlon-x2.html&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=300&amp;action=like&amp;font=&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;locale=en_US\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:300px; height:30px\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to install Mac OS X 10.5.8 on an AMD Athlon X2 system after little trouble. 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This will be composed of a series of posts, &#8230; <a title=\"Installing Mac OS X 10.5.8 on AMD Athlon X2\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/installing-mac-os-x-10-5-8-on-amd-athlon-x2.html\" aria-label=\"More on Installing Mac OS X 10.5.8 on AMD Athlon X2\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[227],"tags":[215,217,225,461,221,223,354,219],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-os-x","tag-amd","tag-athlon","tag-geforce-6100","tag-mac-os-x","tag-nforce","tag-nforce-405","tag-nvidia","tag-x2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5lUHm-7z","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}