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Kakewalk: Step 1 - Creating An Image of Your Snow Leopard Disc

The document provides step-by-step instructions for installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard onto a PC using a bootable USB thumb drive. It involves using Disk Utility to create an image of the Snow Leopard install disc and restoring it to the thumb drive. A bootloader then needs to be installed before configuring the BIOS to boot from the thumb drive and running the Snow Leopard installer. Finally, a Kakewalk installer package is used to complete the Hackintosh installation.

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Kakewalk: Step 1 - Creating An Image of Your Snow Leopard Disc

The document provides step-by-step instructions for installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard onto a PC using a bootable USB thumb drive. It involves using Disk Utility to create an image of the Snow Leopard install disc and restoring it to the thumb drive. A bootloader then needs to be installed before configuring the BIOS to boot from the thumb drive and running the Snow Leopard installer. Finally, a Kakewalk installer package is used to complete the Hackintosh installation.

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Kakewalk

Step 1 - Creating an image of your Snow Leopard disc


1. Start Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility) 2. In the left hand pane select Mac OS X Install DVD 3. Click the New Image button in the toolbar, select a destination and click Save

Step 2 - Partitioning and formatting your thumb drive


1. Insert your thumb drive and start Disk Utility if you closed it. 2. Select the drive in the left pane and click thePartition button in the right pane 3. In the Volume Scheme drop-down menu select 1 partition and insert a name for the partition (eg. Hackintosh) 4. Nextselect Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) from the Format drop-down 5. Click Options select the GUID Partition Table option and click OK 6. Click Apply

Step 3 -Restoringthe Snow Leopard Install image to your thumb drive


1. First the image we created has to be veried. 2. In Disk Utility click Images in the menubar and select Scan Image For Restore.. then the image le and click OK. 3. Next click your thumb drive partition (eg. named Hackintosh) and click Restore in the right pane. 4. Now drag the Snow Leopard image le to the Source eld. 5. Drag the thumb drive partition to the Destination eld. 6. Uncheck the Erase destination option and hit Restore.

Step 4 - Installing bootloader to thumb drive


1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Go to the folder Kakewalk.zip unzipped to. Double-click Kakewalk. Select your thumb drive (eg. Hackintosh) and click Continue Select your motherboard and Continue Eject the thumb drive

Step 5 - Setting up BIOS


1. Insert the thumb drive in the PC you wish to install to. 2. Enter BIOS and go to Advanced Features 3. Change the Hard Disk Boot Priority to your thumb drive as primary (Number 1) and set the harddriveyou're going to install to as secondary(Number 2) eg. 1. USB-HDD0: SanDisk 16GB 2. SCSI-0: WD 500GB 4. Go back (ESC), go to Integrated peripherals 5. IMPORTANT: Set "SATA RAID/AHCI Mode" to "AHCI" If you cant nd the option then look for AHCI in your motherboard manual. 6. Go back (ESC), go toPower Management 7. Set the ACPI Suspend Type to S3(STR) 8. Set HPET Mode to 64-bit mode 9. Save and Exit, by pressing F10

Step 6 - Installing Snow Leopard


Your system should now be booting from your thumb drive. The bootloader will greet you, and after 5 seconds it will start the Snow Leopard install. 1. Once the Snow Leopard Installer is up and running click Utilities and then Disk Utility 2. In the left hand paneselect the harddrive you wish to install to 3. Click Partition then select 1 Partition then click Options and check GUID Partition Table hit OK 4. Finally enter a name for your partition (eg. Mac) and Apply (Leave the format drop-down to its default value) 5. When the partitioning and formatting is done quit Disk Utility 6. Now go on with the Snow Leopard installer and select your partition (eg. Mac Pro) and install. 7. When the installer has nished restart your computer.

Step 7 - Running the Kakewalk Installer app


Boot from your thumb and drive and select the partition you just installed Snow Leopard to and hit enter. 1. When you're up and running do the following: 2. IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE TO UPDATE TO 10.6.5 BEFORE RUNNING KAKEWALK.PKG! 3. After installing 10.6.5 your system will reboot. Boot from the thumb drive and select your system drive. 4. Double-click the thumb drive volume and then Kakewalk.pkg. 5. Install the package to your Snow Leopard partition. 6. Remove the thumb drive and reboot.

Your Snow Leopard installation is now complete! Got any questions? Need any help? Visit www.kakewalk.se for more information.

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