(Yet Another) Perfect hackintosh with Leopard Server 10.5.4.
The story is very short: I was a little bored with my Desktop Hackintosh 10.5.4 and I’ve decided to go pro, so I’ve upgraded the cat to a real leopard.
Well, enough talk… Here are the specs:
Pentium Dual Core E2180 OC’ed (GREAT and CHEAP processor)
Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L
4Gb DDR2 800 Kingston N5
NVidia XFX GeForce 8500GT
HDD, etc… not so important
Price for a complete machine – 1000 reais, or 600 dollars (or much less if you’re on USA or another country)
The method:
—Desktop—
1- Installed Leo4All V2, cat’ed a Codec Dump on ubuntu, used Taruga HDA Patcher, EFI Strings for the GPU. (Your mileage may vary)
2- When everything was looking good, including the DVI/VGA order, which I had to do a little Hex job, I proceeded to 10.5.4 update, doing a
“while sleep 1 ; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext ; done” in the terminal to make sure this kext is wiped during the update. Also, did a nano -w /System/InstallAtStartup/Scripts/1 and edited the kextload “Don’t Steal Mac OS X.kext” to dsmos.kext
—Upgrade to Server—
The Upgrade to Server was simple, I’ve installed the Server.mpkg from Leo Server install DVD, then rebooted, inserted the serial, then downloaded the 10.5.4 combo update and I did the same thing for Desktop step 2… Voilá!
Have Phun!
Oh, almost forgot our tradition, writing a little manifesto, we got lots of positive feedback from our hackintosh/iphone manifesto (see the description on our other vids), so, here’s another one, this time, server-wise, lol.
—————–Manifesto———————
Notice that we actually own several retail copies of Mac OS X Leopard desktop as well some server licenses, but in this case, just a test, nothing else, I just wrote down a serial that I found from a torrent site.
Don’t get me wrong apple… Like the iPhone and the Mac OS X, you’re wasting an excellent server platform just to satisfy your “hardware ego” and PPC zealots and fanboys out there (I actually was one of them, not anymore).
Your server system could be powering millions (of cheaper) Intel Servers out there (from Dell, IBM, HP) and making a lot of money from these companies, that I’m pretty sure, that, before Jobs even mention the terms of an agreement, Michael Dell would be like: YES, PLEASE!!! Lemme have OSX Server on our PowerEdges, no matter what it takes.
These companies are dying to have a OSX on their machines, and it could be a good start with OSX Server.
Also, Apple, remember the iPhone… You guys talk a lot about being proprietary… But, I wonder how can you enter the enterprise market without a decent and proprietary server pool… Will you accept your iPhone running only MS Exchange? Bill Gates thanks you!
Well, we sincerely hope that Apple will think different from now on… If it isn’t the case, then we would really like to see Apple burning in an AntiTrust in a near future… Because I mean, their EULA is simply ridiculous now, and even more illegal than building a (legal) hackintosh… PPC was a closed platform, expensive to clone, so that’s ok… But now Apple is running on Intel, which is an open platform, so be it… After all, even Apple likes and advocates Windows running on Boot Camp… Equal Rights!!
Power to our brothers at Psystar! You guys should sue Apple, not the other way around!
Peace!
PS: By the way… Talking about Psystar, it is me, or something smells funky about this company? I mean, a company that came from nowhere, and bought a six million building in Miami in a snap? I got a conspiration theory, maybe these guys are being backed up by huge companies? Or these guys ARE in fact these companies? hmm…. Or maybe, even Apple’s Skunk Works testing the water? I dunno… But something is rotten in the “state” of Cupertino…
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Great video. Do you …
Great video. Do you have a brief document about setting up DNS, FW and iChat?
ignorance =/
ignorance =/
i installed it …
i installed it itrequires serial to enter but i dont belive the info says it.
omg your root …
omg your root password :-X
the pentium dual …
the pentium dual core is vanilla kernel compatible??
no they cant they …
no they cant they can not tell what os you have from your isp
if you uuse …
if you uuse internet will apple get you
LOL
LOL
you should change …
you should change to a longer password, yours is not enough.
Of course no IT …
Of course no IT department is required – it’s a *nix system!
dae cara blz?
sou …
dae cara blz?
sou do brasil tambem
eu tenho um mac e queria fazer um upgrade para o server mas com um custo baixo (se eh q me entende) como posso fazer?)
vlw
You may want to …
You may want to watch Apple’s online tuturiols on the features in Mac OS X server, such as DNS, LDAP, User account management etc. But if all you need to do is share a few files, Tiger or Leopard desktop can more then handle the job.
is there any …
is there any advantage to set up Leopard Sever if you just want to create a file server for a few clients? Can’t regular Leopard serve just as well in that case?
If I use P4 with …
If I use P4 with Geforce 9800 gt ultra x3 Psu.
lol…you dont know …
lol…you dont know what you are talking about right?…but you feel like bashing other people pcs…well there are benchmarking software on the mac and we use them to check the performance of our machine and we consistently beat similar systems by 30%, (why we get better videocards the rest of the specs is pretty even). There is no difference between the hardware used in mac and pcs nowadays and you can use the stock drivers of apple for most of your stuff just by editing the efi strings.
on my 4th …
on my 4th hackintosh myself, reason i do them is because I like building my own pcs, apple doesnt let you do that so I just make a hackintosh. Love choosing my own parts, get a case i like (not only one case for all I want to be different) assemble them and install all the osx.
HI, could u tell me …
HI, could u tell me…
wich kexts needs this motherboard?
i want to install from retail dvd
Hey can u stream …
Hey can u stream live or make an internet radio using this leopard server? I heard that quicktime streaming server and quicktime broadcaster which are included in the Leopard server can make this possible, but I’m not sure about this; also if this works, I’d like to know if u can embed a code into a Myspace page (profile 2.0)…Thanks
I have a Jas 10.5.4 …
I have a Jas 10.5.4 server now, this runs better than an intel imac. Graphics have never been an issue on any hackintosh setup for me, in fact graphics are better. I built one of these for a friend that does video editing for a living, so far no complain.
Will never run as …
Will never run as good as a real Mac. At least when using resource-intesive programs (like 3d animation progs, video editing etc.). In those cases it can reach about 65-70%.
i got it it sux it …
i got it it sux it always disconnect from internet
please can u send …
please can u send me the sendspace link to download leopard server. thanks in advance.