Do so, but when the machine gets back to the boot prompt, “Stop” it immediately (don’t worry, this won’t harm anything) so that you are back to the VMware desktop and the VM is powered off.ġ2. When the installation completes, you’ll be prompted to restart. Proceed with the installation, selecting your VM disc as the target partition (it will be the only one, if you followed these instructions).ġ1. “Apply” your partition settings, and exit the “Disk Utility”.ġ0. Select the “Options” button, and change the disc to use a “Master Boot Record” partition. This volume type is important: I was unable to get the VM to boot with any other type:Ĩ. Create a single-partition layout, leaving the volume type as “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”. From this interface, select the VM disc, and then select the “Partition” tab:ħ.
When you get to the installation prompt, you’ll want to go to the “Utilities” menu, and launch “Disk Utility”. Now, if you’re lucky, at this point you should boot into the iDeneb installer. I use the following (‘-v’ means show diagnostic messages I recommend entering at least that):Ħ. Then, at the “boot:” prompt, you can enter options you want for starting the installer. When prompted to press “F8” for startup options, press it. You’ll want to be sure you click in the window immediately so it captures the mouse/keyboard focus. Edit the machine settings, and set the CD/DVD drive to use the one that you noted earlier where the iDeneb 1.4 image is mounted:ĥ.
If you need to do more on the drive, increase that size here:Ĥ. The installation will consume 6-7GB, and the update will consume even more. Unless you know what you’re doing, select “Bridged networking”: You can call it whatever you like, of course:Ĭhoose the number of processors to let the OS use: I named it “10.5” because I will upgrade from the 10.5.6 on the iDeneb 1.4 image to 10.5.7.
#Install ideneb 1.3 install#
Tell VMware that you will install the operating system later:įor operating system type, Select “Other”, and then “FreeBSD 64-bit”: The following sequence of screen grabs should show you all the settings you need to create for the new environment: Mount the iDeneb ISO as a drive (using something like UltraISO or Virtual CloneDrive). Google it, or use your favorite torrent search engine.Ģ.
First, of course, you need to grab the iDeneb 1.4 distribution (Mac OS X 10.5.6). For the purposes of this tutorial, I’ll be using the file “iDeneb_v1.4_10.5.6.iso”. I had to experiment over and over to find these working steps you will probably have to do the same to overcome your problems. If you are not successful using them, there’s not much I can do to help you out. If you find a way to get audio working, you might post it here.īe aware that these steps worked for me, but YMMV. There is no sound, but there is networking, which is far more important to me.
#Install ideneb 1.3 mac os x#
I’m documenting here the steps I followed (many times, just to make sure they worked for me) to achieve a successful Mac OS X 10.5.x install in a VMware Workstation 6.5.2 machine. However, I sat down today and decided to give it my best shot again, and this time I succeeded! Not only did I succeed with iDeneb 1.4 (which installs Mac OS X 10.5.6), I successfully upgraded that release to 10.5.7.
#Install ideneb 1.3 how to#
There’s a lot of Google talk out there about how to do it, but not everybody seems to be successful. One of the current “Holy Grails” of virtual machinery is getting a functional installation of Mac OS X into a VMware virtual machine.