How to install 10.3 on PearPC *without* Darwin - tutorial!

fozi · Post by **fozi** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:38 am

I just wanted to say you are the MAN!!! today i had to open a .dmg file and couldnt on a pc. The only alternative I could find was pearpc. Im pretty good with figuring things out and couldnt get the darwin thing to work. A few searches on google and i found your post. I got it on the first try.. All you have to do is READ your instructions.. ITS GREAT!!! thank you so much!!!

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Kondor1 · Post by **Kondor1** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 12:23 am

All i had to do is create a 10gb hd using pearpcfront (yes 10gb cause i want plenty of space), then boot with my 10.3 dvd iso that i made from my 10.3 G5 Restore DVD. go to the disk utility, partition/format it, quit and restart pear pc, and finish up. ....that simple

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juno · Post by **juno** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:52 am

I burned a copy of the panther discs. I can see all the files on it with windows. I try to start Pear PC and it crashes when I select the bootable partition. Screenshot is attached.
Is there any way to fix this?

prasys · Post by **prasys** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:23 am

I think you need to get the special P3-M Bulit , because someone showed me a workaround to fix it..After you have installed OSX, you are free to use any Bulids....:D

Brando457 · Post by **Brando457** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 9:40 am

thanks for the guide, all installed well.

Is there a way to set my ram to 256mb or even 512?

prasys · Post by **prasys** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 5:56 am

Oh , its simple , use PearGUI or use a Hex calc to get the value

MeanE · Post by **MeanE** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 4:20 pm

robojam · Post by **robojam** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:17 pm

Test apparently worked...

night141 · Post by **night141** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:57 pm

Can anyone host the partitioned drive???

I cant find a good one for OS 10.3 anywhere...

night141 · Post by **night141** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 12:09 am

I am still having problems getitng this to work.

First, I do all the steps leading to step 4, but I was too late for a copy of Cat's partition'd drive so I got the 3 gig one from pearpc.net . Then i go to run, then cmd to get up the command promt. Then i load the locaton of the config file and i made it .ppc file extention that is accociated with pearpc. Then I hit enter, and I get this error message:

Help anyone?????
Is it bad that it cant open the file?

trygvebw · Post by **trygvebw** » Sat Jun 12, 2004 9:51 am

Try to enter the full path of the disk and the CD ISO in the config file.

nop_bcr · Post by **nop_bcr** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 12:53 pm

Could anybody tell me how or where to download the image file for MacOS 10.2 ??

I don't see where I can download attachements.
help ?

prasys · Post by **prasys** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 6:47 am

What Image file do you mean ?

There is one on www.pearpc.net , yeah , check the download section and Cat 7 had posted a Image File

Note : Image File contains a Blank MacOS X (HFS+) HardDisk

feelie75 · Post by **feelie75** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:31 pm

Everything worked great. The only trouble I had was the partition re-arranging. I think mine was already in the proper order, and so by switching 3 and 2, i messed things up. I fixed it simply by putting 3 (it was the 6gig partition, obviously the one I wanted) back to 2 again

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I used Nero Express to make the iso images from my 4CD set of OSX10.3, though it only needed the first CD's iso image.

I removed a lot of the install stuff like foreign language translation so that my install was only 1.2 gigs. It still took 3 hours to install, even on my P4 3GHz hyper-threading laptop. oh well. well worth it.

Runs a tad slow, but definitely bearable. Only concern I have is that it heats my CPU up quite a bit.

Oh yeah!! Another strange thing: The time seems to be in hyperdrive! For every 1 real second, the time in OSX does about 4 seconds! strange. key-repeat speed is very very sensitive too for me, it's hard to type without getting a lot of repeated characters..

Anyhow, pretty darn nifty. Thanks!!

hakiko · Post by **hakiko** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:03 pm

does pearpc with mac os x format the c drive or anything............

robojam · Post by **robojam** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:28 pm

No, it creates a large file on your hard disk, and all disk operations take place within that file.

prasys · Post by **prasys** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:03 am

No , It just uses the "Image File" only..It won't touch your C Drive unless you networked with your Emulated Mac

Budweiser · Post by **Budweiser** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 9:32 pm

13. Press "p" to view the partition table. The 3rd one actually needs to be moved up to 2 to make it bootable. So...

14. Press "r" to go into partition reordering mode.

This is the point where its says : The map is not writable

15. Enter the number of that partition (3).

16. Enter 2 to move it to the second position.

17. Hit w to write the partition table, check it using p again if you want to confirm it is all okay.

again this is a point where its says the same. Anyone got a suggestion on how to fix this?

PPC_Digger · Post by **PPC_Digger** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:02 am

what device did you 'tell' it to edit?
(/dev/disk0; /dev/disk1?)

Budweiser · Post by **Budweiser** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 10:32 am

/dev/disk0

PPC_Digger · Post by **PPC_Digger** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:14 am

well, that should be fine, unless you specified in the config file to put the hard disk image file in the secondary controller and the cd rom in the primary controller. (the primary is /dev/disk0 and the secondary is /dev/disk1)

Budweiser · Post by **Budweiser** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:04 pm

Got it to work.

Made changes in the config file :

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prom_env_machargs="-s"

to

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prom_env_machargs="-v"

No idea why i did it, but tested it, and after rebooting it continued the installer. Once finished it worked perfectly.

PPC_Digger · Post by **PPC_Digger** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:35 pm

Well, that parameter told it to only enter the shell e.g. to be darwin-like.
congratulations on solving the problem yourself.

thz10 · Post by **thz10** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 4:23 pm

Hi guys...it all looks great. everything works as it should accept!!!!! if i start ppc i get the apple screen and then after a few seconds it tells me to reboot my system.....

HOW?! and why?

Anyone an idea?

Thanx guys

How to install 10.3 on PearPC without Darwin - tutorial!

You are the best

Installing OSX 10.3

The partitoined drive???

Image file 10.2

worked great

does it format the c or anything

Re: How to install 10.3 on PearPC without Darwin - tutoria

WILL NOT INSTALL JUST wants to reboot!