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Chameleon => General Discussion => Topic started by: sckevyn on April 06, 2009, 10:04:21 PM

Title: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: sckevyn on April 06, 2009, 10:04:21 PM
So what is your favorite flavor of OS X 10.5.6?





Edit: Changed to non-sticky, 10.5.x is now replaced by 10.6.x. Also trying to minimize the number of stickies for readability's sake.
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: fassl on April 06, 2009, 10:27:41 PM
OS X? Whats that??
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: Superhai on April 06, 2009, 11:39:32 PM
OS X? Whats that??
I think it is some kind of low-fat cheese substitute.
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: lastExile on April 06, 2009, 11:58:54 PM
OS X? Whats that??
I think it is some kind of low-fat cheese substitute.

lol :D
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: Hagar on April 07, 2009, 12:32:40 AM
1st topic & already polluted with "distro" talk 10.5.6 is the OS version. no ifs buts maybe's hacks or flavours. let the prepatched disks die like the dinosaurs they are..
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: sckevyn on April 07, 2009, 12:36:49 AM
1st topic & already polluted with "distro" talk 10.5.6 is the OS version. no ifs buts maybe's hacks or flavours. let the prepatched disks die like the dinosaurs they are..

But but I'd happily love to see a walking eating dinosaur... just as long as it wasn't trying to eat me! =)
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: cnphico on April 07, 2009, 12:59:36 PM
My PC love Retail   8)
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: dapetcu21 on April 07, 2009, 11:15:22 PM
Retail works the best and you know exactly what is modified, but it is system specific.
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: Gounah on April 08, 2009, 12:58:14 AM
I think iPC release is the best for newbies with recent computer because it haves a lot of drivers.

For old computers JaS is the best (I was able to run Leopard on a old P4 [willamette sse2] with an Intel D845HV and 1GB of pc133)...
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: wwbsox on April 08, 2009, 02:09:30 PM
   Definitely Retail 10.5.6, Only thing I had to do after installing 10.5.6 was to install apples 10.5.6 update over the 10.5.6 retail install (installer allowed me to do this). This gave me the "Restart automatically after a power failure" option in Energy Saver preferences. Check that box and sleep works great! EP45-DS3L, Q6600, ATI HD2600XT.
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: Gringo Vermelho on April 08, 2009, 05:45:18 PM
Don't knock the hackintosh distros.

Non-retail serves as testing grounds to find out what patched kexts are required to run retail.




Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: bCH on April 08, 2009, 07:16:26 PM
Don't knock the hackintosh distros.
Non-retail serves as testing grounds to find out what patched kexts are required to run retail.

Some distros install patched files by default without you knowing or being able to select/diselect them (like iDeneb for example). Is very unlikely you can realize which files are really vanilla and which arent.
On other distros not based on retail disks (like iPC 10.5.6 or XxX 10.5.5) the 'Base system' is an updated 10.5.4 to 10.5.6 repacked with a method similar to the 'instahackintosh' script. So you dont really get a clean retail install either, since these updated 'base system packages' often had mixed system files...
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: Gringo Vermelho on April 09, 2009, 05:22:52 AM
Maybe but I still managed to do it on iPC 10.5.6.

The other day I finally removed the last non-Apple kext, and then I replaced everything in the extensions folder with vanilla extensions from my 10.5.6 retail DVD as a test.

It still works.

All required patches except the Voodoo Kernel are running from /extra and /extra/extensions.mkext

Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: Terc on April 15, 2009, 04:50:22 PM
The other day I finally removed the last non-Apple kext

How is your audio working?  Does voodoohda load from /Extra?  Otherwise, I don't think you have all your kexts replaced.

Honestly, going from retail to completely patched is much easier than you might expect.  Just start with the required kexts (decrypt, maybe openhaltrestart, hda, then start getting things like networking and video running, fix your icons with plist only kexts, then work from there)  If you start with a hacked up install disk, you'll never know for sure, and eventually, some update will overwrite a kext you didn't realize had been patched and you'll have no idea how to fix it.

Trust me, I've been doing this for years (yes, really, YEARS) and the external kexts and efi strings are making life so much easier on everyone.  But getting people off the training wheels and onto retail seems like it will be the community's biggest challenge yet.
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: gustavolessa on April 16, 2009, 11:48:15 PM
I'm a Mac noob.
I installed 2 days ago my first osx on pc.

Used the iPC 10.5.6 pff5.
Its running smoothly (besides voodoops2controller problem now).

I know there's a LOT of tutorials on foruns. But I want to know if you can show me one of the bests!

I really dunno the process of installing retail, bootloader, installing extra kexts, configs, etc ,etc, etc.

Sorry the silly question, but I thinks its almost unanimous that retail installation is the best one. Thou, I really want to know how to install it.


Thanks in advice.
Gustavo


P.S.: My hardware:
C2Q Q6600
Mobo Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L
4gb ram ddr 800MHz
Using onboard video (intel X3100)
HD SATA 500GB + IDE 160GB
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: alex_l on April 18, 2009, 12:59:14 PM
I think retail is definitely the way to go.
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: seanmcd on April 20, 2009, 07:22:00 PM
Retail for sure. 
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: deek on April 27, 2009, 04:48:49 PM
Originally I did an iDeneb 10.5.6 install, but then found the beauty of EFI/Retail on my AMD box... I now have the chameleon bootloader EFI setup with retail 10.5.6 and will be dual booting to Vista 64.

So in short, RETAIL!
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: gustavolessa on April 28, 2009, 10:47:20 PM
Originally I did an iDeneb 10.5.6 install, but then found the beauty of EFI/Retail on my AMD box... I now have the chameleon bootloader EFI setup with retail 10.5.6 and will be dual booting to Vista 64.

So in short, RETAIL!

What's the major difference you felt??
I just had problems with iPC installation and considered moving to an iDeneb one, since I've started on the mac world 2 weeks ago. But everyone who tried retail prefer it! So, I got the image file and trying to figure out if it should make REAL difference to me, as a new mac user!



Thanks!
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: Gringo Vermelho on May 15, 2009, 05:27:17 AM
How is your audio working?  Does voodoohda load from /Extra?  Otherwise, I don't think you have all your kexts replaced.

I tested VoodooHDA but mic/line inputs doesn't work with it.

I'm using HDAEnabler.kext with AD2000b.HDA.FIX.kext from "The King" over at Insanelymac. Loads fine from /Extra/Extensions or Extensions.mkext.

I *really* am not using any patched kexts in S/L/E.

I've done a 'archive & replace' install of vanilla 10.5.6 on top of iPC 10.5.6, booting with my Chameleon 2.0 boot CD. Updated to 10.5.7 yesterday with little effort. Only needed a legacy kext for the new AppleYukon2 drivers to get LAN working again.

I don't know how I would have figured all this out without having a working frankentosh installation to start from.
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: Arial on June 12, 2009, 04:54:49 AM
XxX 10.5.6 Final v2 PPF1
click & go to 10.5.7.
smooth on myrig (Abit IP35-E) & Asus P5KPL-SE

yup, I already tried OSX 10.5.6 Retail Disk
Title: Re: OS X 10.5.6 Install of Choice
Post by: yushir0 on August 19, 2009, 09:07:23 PM
If i have to format again i'll try out retail, but meanwhile iDeneb it's the best.

Dunno what iDeneb installs or what it doens't, what really matters is that works, and will continue working if you install the updates provided by them (i've got an Intel 3945 so i don't have internet at all :), i prefer downloading a 200 mb update than the 800 mb update from apple.