MacOSx on Windows
on 06.30.04, 04:19am in mac • comments (8)
If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I would have never believed it. I spent some time (and let me tell you, it takes awhile) installing Mac OSX 10.2 on PearPC, running on WindowsXP. Bottom line: The guys that wrote this need to stand up and take a bow - amazing. Here are some basic steps:
- Download Pear PC and a hard disk image file. I used the 6 gig one.
- Create ISO images of you MacOSx installation disks.
- Modify the pearpc.example file with the following changes:
prom_bootmethod = “select“
pci_ide0_master_image = “d:\pearpc\macos6gb.img“ (the uncompressed image)
pci_ide0_slave_image = “d:\pearpc\macos102.iso“ (CD1 of my Jaguar install disks)
memory_size=0×10000000 (allow the emulator 256 MB)
prom_env_bootargs = “” (it was set to -v, crashed)
- Save the file to something like osx_settings.pearpc
- Run ppc osx_settings.pearpc. After some time, the MacOS install will start.
- When you choose to install, make sure NOT to install Additional Printers, Foreign Language Packs, etc.
- Start the install, and leave for a few hours. When the install is complete, it will need to reboot with disk 2, so change the pci_ide_slave_image entry to point to the second install CD.
Here are some links with some really helpful information that got me through the install:
- PearPC Community Site and the PearPC Community Forum
- Emaculation forums: General, FAQ, Networking and Advanced Topics
- PowerPC Emulation is Finally here!
- Pear PC Nightly Builds
- Richard Goodwin’s nighly builds
- Pear PC SDL builds
- Windows Networking Guide
I’ll post some photo’s and more details when I get networking up and running.
David Brownell (June 30, 2004 @ 5:01 am)
Is the emulation fast enough to realistically use OS X in standard cases (email/web surfing/document editing/etc)?
Neil Cowburn (June 30, 2004 @ 6:01 am)
I find it’s fastest enough to use, but not in any productive way and that’s with allocating the emulator 512MB RAM
Steve (June 30, 2004 @ 2:15 pm)
Yeah, I’d agree with Neil. It’s pretty cool, and fast enough to play with. For example, I plan on using it to make sure the website renders ok in Safari, etc.
I wouldn’t say you’d want to use it as your primary OS though.. It’s a great way to screw around with OSX though if you don’t have a Mac (I guess I should dust mine off, which is sitting in the garage right now).
m0gely (July 6, 2004 @ 12:04 am)
I have an original Jaguar CD. But if all you have is windows, how do you make an ISO of that? I have tried software that makes it an IMG file then converting it, but pearpc cannot boot it.
Steve (July 6, 2004 @ 12:53 am)
I used Nero to turn the Panther (and Jaguar) CD’s into ISO’s.
Bax (December 12, 2004 @ 5:48 pm)
If you have cygwin installed on win32, then “dd if=/dev/sr0 of=somecd.iso” may be of help. /dev/sr0 depends on the special devices which cygwin on your machine supports.
dewayne (February 8, 2005 @ 12:47 pm)
Has anyone tried this with MacDrive 6? It allows you to read and write mac files.
Ivan (April 14, 2005 @ 8:01 pm)
How can i create an virtual drive (hd.img) bigger than 6 Gb??