Daily Apps points to a method which will let you install Leopard just like you install Windows or Linux. Just download the Leopard ISO, burn it to a DVD and you are ready to install Leopard. No patching, hacking involved.
How does this work ?
The latest Leopard ISO image comes with PC-EFI built in. This allows normal BIOS based PC’s to boot off the Leopard DVD. You can find more about PC-EFI from the OSX86 wiki.
Ironically, Microsoft Windows support BIOS only, and Apple makes Boot camp to fill the gap. The EFI patch works in a similar approach: it emulates EFI data for normal BIOS-based PCs and let OS X treat them as genuine EFI-based Macs.
The EFI emulation is a long dream in OSX86 community, but prior to this, thanks the Apple’s open source Darwin Project and those Hackintosh gurus, we can still enjoy OS X on normal PCs, with patched kernels/kernel modules which just bypass EFI. Now with the EFI patch, the hackintosh can boot off “vanilla” (unmodified) OS X kernel and use vanilla kexts, which gives a more clean room and great peace of mind for future system updates.
How to Install Leopard on vanilla PC’s
- First get the EFI patched ISO from some torrent site like Mininova. You can find it by performing a search for iATKOS v1.0i.
- Then burn the ISO to the DVD.
- Boot from the DVD, select what you want to install and proceed.
That’s it. You have got a fully functional Mac OS X Leopard on your PC.
P.S. – I am yet to try this method. So I cannot tell whether the Leopard installation plays nice with existing Windows and Linux installs.
Via – Daily Apps Blog