Tag Archives: Retail OSX Installation

How to create bootable Mountain Lion 10.8.2 USB installer

There are numerous ways to create bootable USB installer for hackintosh, most of them are Chameleon based and Unibeast is just one of them. The installation process is quite simple if you bought your copy from App store. Download Unibeast and just follow tonymacx86 instructions and you are good to go. But you should consider that tonymacx86 is not an open source and therefore is not in OSx86 spirit. Also apparently he stole the code from qoopz , nawcom , AnV and few others that made the legacy kernel. Here is one great explanation why you should not use tonymacx86, and here is another.

But there is another way to install it and even more, it  supports raw installESD.dmg instalation, it’s called myHack, it’s  Chameleon based USB Instaler + after install utility. MyHack functionality is more less the same as Unibeast + Multibeast,  just simplier and better…

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Installation of OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion on PC based computer

This tutorial shows how to install Retail Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 64 bit on a PC based computer. It’s made specific for the Gigabyte GA EP41-UD3L main board, but most of tutorial should work for most intel based main boards and core2duo or later processors. You just need to know exact hardware you use, and than select specific drivers and (if u use) DSDT.aml for your main board. Mountain Lion does not support 32 bit mode anymore…

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HOW TO INSTALL OS X Snow Leopard

This tutorial shows default Mac OS X Snow Leopard installation, everything is more less the same for Lion and Mountain Lion, just a slightly different changes in a design.
This is basic and default way to install OS X on Mackintosh machines (installing boot loader and after install procedures are not included cause this is only needed for Hackintosh computers)

So, first boot your copy of a retail DVD, or USB installation media with OS X on it.
When installation screen appears  you will have to select your language and proceed to the next step.
OS X chooce your language
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