It's always worth mentioning that this is an experiment. If you're here to get a 'cheap Mac' you might get more headaches and sleepless nights than results. Experimentation and learning are the keywords. This whole community is built on the shoulders of giants; do your part and help continuing building it by collaborating.
This guide is built/copied/tweaked from Munky's Munky's excellent thread on creating a vanilla install based on DFE's boot-132 loader. Thanks go to Macita and the others on the P5W thread for putting together a set of working kexts that work with this board.
INGREDIENTS
- correct BIOS settings [need link to this wiki's BIOS settings otherwise on Macita's post #409]
- Macita's Boot-132 iso [need list/links of original kexts that are used in disk]
- Retail Mac OS X Leopard (this will not work with the DVD's that come with Mac's, aka restore disk)
- an harddrive that you can afford to format and repartition without fear of loss of data
PROCEDURE
- burn a CD using Macita's ISO.
- boot the CD and, when done loading, swap it for the retail Leopard DVD
- go through with the installation. Restart, boot again using the Macita ISO CD, follow the prompts, and you should have a fully operational Leopard installation.
Yes, it is that simple. Now, the interesting (read intricate) part comes: putting together the right kexts and choosing/setting the right bootloader for you. The newest version of the Chameleon bootloader is in the oven and should integrate Munky's efforts in an easily installable and robust program.
