My current mac osx86 �installation working with full bells and whistles�..above.

(picture captured using keyboard shortcuts from within the os)

Requirements.

Mac OSX patched image for intel

Dvd drive

Partition magic or windows xp� installation cd

First delete all partitions on the existing internal HDD and remove everything including dell media direct partion�.

Leave the utility partition if you want.

Pop in the OSX dvd ( I used jas 10.4.8)

Press f12 while booting to select one time boot menu and select cd/dvd

Let the computer boot and press enter when prompted to continue with mac os installation.

Once you are at the language selection menu for the installation which looks like this

Select and then click on the continue button.

Once you get to the above screen select Utilities from the top bar and click on disk utilities.

Use the disk utility to select the appropriate HDD partition and then click ERASE on the right pane and select MAC OSX (Journaled) and Enter the name u want in the partition name box. This prepares the HDD for installation. (Unfortunately I forgot to take the pictures L).

Then proceed by selecting the just prepared partition.

Be sure to click customize instead of install

Click continue.

Select various packages from the list.

Once complete the computer restarts and computer boots into mac os.

There a re no issues with jas 10.4.8 except the video issues like sometimes desktop not coming and just colored bands appear and sometimes the orientation of the display is not straight.

See examples� ; )

To correct this I just reinstalled a couple of times by secting different packages and only those that were applicable to my computer and thus the issue was resolved after the sixth install.

Some other cool pictures�.

Now some issues remain such as�

Speakers not working.

Camera not working.

Card reader not working.

Intel wireless not working.

I am using Dual boot with two HDD (internal for windows and external for MAC OS) so chain0 works good for me.

Setting up Dual boot through Darwin or Chain0

There are two easy methods for dual booting without having to install slow, annoying bootloaders like Acronis OS selector: You can either OSX's built in Darwin boot loader or Windows XP loader (the chain0 method)

Method 1: Darwin boot loader method (easiest)
Open terminal, type the following:

CODE

sudo  �s
      
*enter password*
                      
nano  /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

Type your password at the prompt. Then add the following under the <dict> tag:

CODE

<key>Timeout</key>
<string>8</string>

Where "8" is the # of seconds the Darwin bootloader will pause for. Now when you reset your computer, you'll be presented with the Darwin bootloader and if you hit f8, you'll see your XP partition! By default, OSX is loaded.

OR Method 2: Chain0 method (XP) (only slightly harder to set up, but my personal preference)

-Reboot the computer and begin hitting F8 continuously (before the gray apple screen) The Darwin bootloader will appear (even if you didn't follow method 1).
-Select your XP partition and hit enter.
-Google "chain0" and download the file from the wiki (first result)
-Place this file in your c: (your root)
-Right click on my computer -> properties -> advanced tab -> settings (under startup and recovery) click edit to open your boot.ini file
-Add the following line to the bottom of the file:

CODE

C:chain0="Mac OS X86"

Click save and close the file. Before we set the XP partition as the active partition, we should test the chain0 method first. Restart the computer, press F8 like before to get into the Darwin bootloader, select the NTFS partition, now the windows OS selection menu will open, select Mac OS X86 and if it boots to Darwin again, you've got it!

You can set your XP partition to active and remove the active status of the OSX partition now.

Ethernet Broadcom 440x

1.)Download the IONetworkingFamily.kext.zip file (see files near the bottom of this post)
2.) Unpack to a FAT32 thumbdrive and rename the .kext to something else.
3.) Make a copy of the current IONetworkingFamily.kext (in System/Library/Extensions) Copy it to the desktop
4.) Browse within the downloaded .kext file to ...ContentsPlugIns... and copy the AppleBCM440xEthernet.kext.
5.) Browse to the COPY of your current IONetworkingFamily.kext to ContentsPlugIns, and paste the .kext (within WinXP, .kext files appear as folders), answering yes to all prompts about overwriting objects.
6.) Transfer the updated IONetworkingFamily.kext back to your System/Library/Extensions folder, replacing the current one.
7.) You will be prompted to authenticate. Hit yes, type in your password to authenticate.
8.) Launch terminal.app, perform the following commands:

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sudo -s
                      
*give password*
                      
cd /System/Library/Extensions
                      
rm Extensions.mkext Extensions.kextcache
                      
*no problem if one or both files don't  exist*
                      
chown -R root:wheel *.kext
                      
kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions

(exit terminal)

Go to applications > Disk Utility > select your volume and repair permissions. Quit and reboot.

9.) Reboot, plug in an ethernet cable, launch Safari to see if you've got it working.

Some other fixes I used can be found here

 AppleHDAPatcher_v1.12.zip ( 881.74K ) Number of downloads: 731
 Colonel_System_Profiler_Patch_1.2.zip ( 619.21K ) Number of downloads: 679
 IONetworkingFamily.kext.zip ( 828.69K ) Number of downloads: 804
 PowerManagement.tar.gz ( 68.29K ) Number of downloads: 674
 sigmatel9221.txt ( 4.03K ) Number of downloads: 1185

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The guide I used can be found here at..

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=41775

 

For other packages I used uphuck 10.4.9 and extracted the packages from it and installed whatever I needed and believe me you can find almost everything you need.