Tiger X86

**David F** · 03-10-2005, 09:06

I have access to Mac OSx Tiger for x86 platform but I do not know wether its going to be worth the hassle. Can it be installed in a multi boot configeration?Or will I need fresh hdd to install? Has anyone done this or set it up on a pc?

punky · 03-10-2005, 09:11

Most of the guides are set up to run it as WMware. IIRC, WMware allows you to run another OS concurrently with the one you booting into, as a virtual machine. I.e. You boot into windows, and you run OSX in a window.

I think if you want to run it directly, you need a blank separate HD. Most how to guides suggest this. Might be to do with how it handles boot sectors/master boot record and such, don't forget, you aren't supposed to do this, OSX was never designed for it, it was design for Apple x86 hardware only.

jamesclarke555 · 03-10-2005, 09:50

I had the Tiger x86 image and was gonna try it out. Didn't find the online guides much help and eventually gave up when Vista Beta 1 came out.

Saw a guy over at Rage3D who installed it natively on his Dell laptop:

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**David F** · 03-10-2005, 10:01

I will be giving a go this afternoon.Got VMware to try it on .But I may go for the native.If I appear to be in a bad mood tonight its cuz it went pear shaped

**David F** · 03-10-2005, 14:31

Ive got it installing natively.Needed a degree in wtf just trying to format a partition that it accepts.I cant imagine it creating a useable boot selector so ill be searching for my copy of acronis later me thinks.Hope this is worth the hassle

**Graham M** · 03-10-2005, 14:34

I have this installed on my laptop, you using the VMWare image or the installer DVD?

**David F** · 03-10-2005, 16:35

I got the installer but it dont work either from boot or in VMware

I give up

**Graham M** · 03-10-2005, 18:12

What are the specs of your system, it requires a minimum of an SSE2 CPU.

**David F** · 03-10-2005, 18:27

specs are fine dude,think it may be the image, when mounted it says theres something missing.Nevermind

**Graham M** · 03-10-2005, 18:43

So youre running on a Pentium 4 with SSE2 or above? Or an AMD 64 Windsor with SSE 2 or above? What Chipset?

**David F** · 03-10-2005, 18:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeph

So youre running on a Pentium 4 with SSE2 or above? Or an AMD 64 Windsor with SSE 2 or above? What Chipset?

chips fine and nforce3 chipset.

**Graham M** · 03-10-2005, 19:44

NForce 3 chipset isnt supported, is probably where youre going wrong. Even if you get it working you wont get Sound, Ethernet and probably USB.

**David F** · 03-10-2005, 20:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zeph

NForce 3 chipset isnt supported, is probably where youre going wrong. Even if you get it working you wont get Sound, Ethernet and probably USB.

Pants ive only got nforce 3 but saying that I thought the whole point of VMware was emulation?

**Graham M** · 03-10-2005, 21:03

True but VMWare relies a fair bit on the hardware of the host PC, its only emulating a PC inside a PC so whats the point of emulating hardware that's already there?

**David F** · 03-10-2005, 21:28

Think ill source the deadmoo image