Comments on: Upgrade Your Hackintosh To Mac OS X 10.5.5!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:15:11 +0000

You should probably start with iPC 10.5.6 Universal PPF5. It’s very stable and brings you to a fairly recent version of OS X.

By: Vusi Twala

Vusi Twala — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:50:09 +0000

I am at version 10.4.11. I just bought Pro Tools 8 LE and it requires version 10.5.5. Where do I start/ From version 10.5.4 or where?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:03:25 +0000

Now that you did this, check out our other guides on upgrading to 10.5.6, 10.5.7, and then 10.5.8.

By: limdara

limdara — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:55:00 +0000

Well, updating was a difficult issues. But I realised that the settings, System Preferences, Energy Saver. If you happen to update and screen hangs that is due to the Energy Saver, make sure it slides is on NEVER for both. It will solve some of the problem, I found that my computer hangs most of the time because of that, but now it runs perfectly. I hope this help some of you.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:21:14 +0000

Neal- Gparted Live is a linux-based Live CD that is probably one of the best partition editors on the market and on top of it all, its free. It supports HFS, NTFS, FAT, and about 20 other formats. If you want to split the HFS partition on your External Drive, just make sure to turn off Journaling before doing so. To do this, open Disk Utility, click on the partition on the left, hold down the Windows Key and click either File or Edit (I forget which one it is). Then click “Disable Journaling” and you should be good to go. After you have booted into Gparted, made the changes, and booted back into windows, its probably smart to reenable Journaling by once again launching Disk Utility, clicking on the partition on the left, and clicking the big green Hard Drive icon at the top of the window.

Gparted can be found at http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

By: Neal

Neal — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:51:07 +0000

Thanks, I may well try this….am probably going to have to partition my external drive into two small partitions…do you know of any good programs for this that way I can have one partition as a test, one as a 10.5.4 backup (which is fully stable and working).

If not I’ll pop out at the weekend and pick up a second small external harddrive.

Thanks for all your help
Neal

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:27:12 +0000

Neal- That is pretty strange. If you are confident that 10.5.5 works 100% on your External Drive then you can boot from the External Drive and use either Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper to clone your External Drive to your Internal Drive. That would bypass the issue you get when installing 10.5.5 on the Internal Drive.

By: Neal

Neal — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:11:55 +0000

Right…..

I can get this to work on my external hard-drive (my test disc), however when I come to do it on the Harddrive inside the laptop…..the you must restart your computer error screen – but this is only when I do it on my internal drive!

I have now tried it four times on my internal drive and no joy, but can do it over and over again on my external drive – does anyone have any ideas

Cheers
Neal

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 24 May 2009 22:16:12 +0000

No Problem! Thats why were here :-)

By: Stupid.Cool.Nerds

Stupid.Cool.Nerds — Sun, 24 May 2009 20:13:18 +0000

@Thomas: Thanks alot

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:29:15 +0000

We have a very easy to follow guide on doing just that at http://www.dailyblogged.com/191/hackbook-running-mac-os-x-1056/

By: Stupid.Cool.Nerds

Stupid.Cool.Nerds — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:47:46 +0000

yes. Now I have to figure out how to install 10.5.6 without panic

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:33:01 +0000

So that fixed your problem?

By: Stupid.Cool.Nerds

Stupid.Cool.Nerds — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:31:57 +0000

Sorry Guys! I forgot to “sudo su” while sleep 1 ; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext ; done

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:09:56 +0000

If you are going to reinstall then you might as well install a new build of Leopard such as iPC 10.5.6 PPF5.