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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Dual booting Ubuntu and Mac osx on a hackintosh part 3 (Installing Ubuntu Part 1 Creating a Bootable drive in mac osx)

Okay so you've just finished installing Mac OSX on your hackintosh and now your ready to install Ubuntu. Here's how.

Creating a Bootable USB in Mac OSX

2. Open the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/ or query Terminal in Spotlight).

3. Convert the .iso file to .img using the convert option of hdiutil (e.g.,hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img ~/path/to/ubuntu.iso)

Note: OS X tends to put the .dmg ending on the output file automatically.

4. Run diskutil list to get the current list of devices.

5. Insert your flash media.

6. Run diskutil list again and determine the device node assigned to your flash media (e.g. /dev/disk2).

7. Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, N would be 2).

8. Execute sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m (replace /path/to/downloaded.img with the path where the image file is located; for example, ./ubuntu.imgor ./ubuntu.dmg).

Using /dev/rdisk instead of /dev/disk may be faster
If you see the error dd: Invalid number '1m', you are using GNU dd. Use the same

command but replace bs=1m with bs=1M
If you see the error dd: /dev/diskN: Resource busy, make sure the disk is not in use. Start the 'Disk Utility.app' and unmount (don't eject) the drive

9. Run diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, N would be 2).

10. Restart your Mac and press alt/option key while the Mac is restarting to choose the USB stick.

Guide to installing OSX on a Hackintosh

Installing the Mac OS

Alright there are a few steps to doing this. You'll want to pay attention and follow each step exactly in order. Don't skip around. You should probably read through this guide before you start working.

Bios

The first thing your going to want to do is configure the bios.

1. Change the boot device order - (1) flash drive booting from (2) hard drive installing Mac OS on (3) Doesn't really matter now.

2. Make sure SATA is AHCI

3. Disable QuickBoot

Creating a bootable USB drive

You will need,

A USB drive at least 8gbs

A copy of Mac Mountain Lion from the app store

An account to the tonymacx86 forum

Unibeast from tonymacx86

Access to a working mac computer

Okay now that you have all of that stuff we can get to work on creating your bootable USB drive.

1. Plug your thumb drive (USB drive) into the mac

2. go to Applications<Utilities<disk utilities

3. click on thumb drive

4. Partitioning the thumb drive (1) Click current and change to "1 partition"(2) Name the thumb drive "USB" without the quotes (3) select format as "Mac OS X extended Journaled" (4) Select "Master Boot" type (5) Click "apply" (6) Click partition

5. Make sure that Mountain Lion installer is in your applications folder

6. Running UniBeast (1) Open UniBeast (2) click "continue" "continue" "continue" "agree" (3) Now select Laptop support or legacy usb support. Laptop support is for laptops and legacy usb support is for 1156 chipsets. If your not sure whether or not you'll need the legacy usb support click on it. It will not break anything if you don't need it. (4) Click "continue" (5) enter Password (6) wait...... (about 30 min, but up to an hour)

7. You now have a Bootable USB drive

Installing OSX

Alright now go to your hackintosh. If you have integrated graphics of any type then do yourself a favor and remove your graphics card. Now plug in your bootable usb drive.

1. Turn on your computer

2. go to your boot selection page (normally you can get there by f11 f12 or esc)

3. Select your thumb drive

4. Choose language and agree

5. Once your through the basic setup you'll need to partition your hard drive. If the partitioner doesn't pop up (1) disk utilities on the top bar (2) Partition Tab

(NOTE) The following is how to partition for an Ubuntu/ MAC OSX dual boot with separate

root and home folders for each. Root will be on an ssd and home on a 1tb hard drive.

6. Select 2 partitions for your ssd

7. Set the first partition as your Ubuntu partition give it the proper amount of space

8. Move to the bottom partition Give it the proper amount of space.

9. Set the bottom partition to Mac OS extended Journaled

10. Set the partition scheme to GUID for the bottom partition

11. Click "apply" then partition

12. Now select that partition as the one for the installer.

13. Run installer like normal.

14. Congratulations Mac OSX is now installed

Running MultiBeast

Alright what you select while running MultiBeast varies computer to computer depending on your parts. Here is what everyone should know.

1. You can find your motherboard setting by a google search normally.

2. You can run MultiBeast multiple times. Just make sure you restart your computer between each one.

3. You can't select everything. It will not work.

Finishing Up

Once you've finished running MultiBeast eject the usb drive and restart.

Tips and Tricks

If you can't get into the OS don't worry. Just reinsert the usb drive and get in through there. select it in the boot menu. Continue trying to tweak MultiBeast until it works. Good luck!

Conclusion

If you have any questions leave a comment. If I missed something leave a comment and I'll update the guide. I made a lot a mistakes installing OSX on my hackintosh. Hopefully this helps you out.

Don't be a copycat. Don't make the same mistakes I do!!

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Dual booting Ubuntu and Mac osx on a hackintosh part 1

Quick Tip

Okay so first things first. You'll want to be patient and download the Mac OS first, not second. I got

impatient and I downloaded Ubuntu first. I had to reparation the ssd I had Ubuntu on, and after re-installing it I couldn't get the home folder to work. Installing mac OSX can be pretty simple as long as you follow the exact steps. I will be explaining how to install the mac OS while also preparing for an Ubuntu install. Stay tuned!

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Partitioning your hard drive and ssd for Ubuntu and Mac / Hackintosh dual boot

How?

Partitioning a hard drive and a ssd can be a little scary sometimes. It gets even scarier when your trying to partition on a Hackintosh for Ubuntu and a Mac, because it's hard to find information, and they both use completely different formats. Here is how I did it after researching the matter.

So at first I got hung up with how I should format the part's of the drives for the mac running system. Don't worry about that at all. You just need to partition and format the drives you'll be using for Ubuntu.

I partitioned my 1tb drive into two parts. The first part is 250gb and it's for Ubuntu. The second part is 750gb, this is for the mac OS, because I'll be doing all my videos in it.

For the 120gb ssd I also partitioned it into two parts. The first part is 20gb and it is for Ubuntu. The second part is 100gb and it's for Mac and all of the adobe products that I'll be using.

You might be wondering how I partitioned for the swap....... I didn't. I instead created a swap file. More on how to do that later.

I hope this helped. If I missed something please leave a comment. If you want more subscribe via email google reader or myy.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Low Budget Video Editing Hackintosh Build Guide Part 1

What is a Hackintosh?

OSx86 (from Mac OS X and x86) is a collaborative hacking project to run the Mac OS X computer operating systemon non-Apple personal computers with x86 architecture and x86-64 compatible processors.