John
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I'm giving this a go, I will chart my progress.
Frist was looking at the insanelymac forums, got bored after seeing a massive post on what needs done.
Picked up a couple of things to go on from my quick skim.
Used a local friendly shop to purchase a copy of leopard that I hoped would boot straight from cd and not require any fannying about.
Has booted from cd and i'm currently in the process of installing, I think.
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John
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1st problem, verified the disk then could not create some volume so chucked it.
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John
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Messed about with the disk utility thing built into the installer and formatted it again and pressed buttons, now seems to have gotten further and started the instal process.
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Cosmo
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What are you trying to do 
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John
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Install it on my inspiron, you don't think i'd go out and pay 10x the price of an equivalently slow pc to try it out do you.
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ed
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But John, Macs are super computers, the specs mean nothing 
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Cosmo
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I thought you were trying to get it on a non-Mac but wanted to check
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John
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I randomly decided I wanted to try it last night.
It's got rid of my xp bootsector and hasn't even managed to write it's own properly 
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ed
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You'll never get a virus though. Probably because it wont install 
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John
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I can't get windows to boot, lucky theres not much on it but ii'm having to try and repair the install and hope it will at least boot to it for me to pull off what I need.
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Simon_16v
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Mac system runs different to windows, my macbook has not crashed yet.
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John
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I got rid of my windows partition and installed again and now it won't boot for some other reason, beginning to wish i'd never started but i'll persevere.
It's probably not crashed because it only has to work on one set of hardware and nobody writes any software for it.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing it doesn't crash but people don't realise that windows doesn't crash much if at all, it's normally a badly written program, in most cases an nvidia driver according to some stats ms posted, thats the cause.
I can put up with the very odd crash for the sake of not spending well over what its worth.
Especially since I can pay less and install mac anyway if I want (if i ever get it working )
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by John
I can put up with the very odd crash for the sake of not spending well over what its worth.
Especially since I can pay less and install mac anyway if I want (if i ever get it working )
Yeah but you wont be iCool.
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John
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ed
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My Windows Vista PC hasn't crashed, well, since I had probalems with my PSU about 2 years ago 
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Rob_Quads
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Which copy have you got?
Think the Jas 10.5.2 is the best at the moment.
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John
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Kalyway 10.5.2
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Simon_16v
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The difference is that Mac doesnt have programmes running in the background compared to windows. Thats why it doesnt crash as often.
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John
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No it's not.
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ed
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I feel like I'm standing in Selfridges or the Apple Store being spouted a load of crap from somone who knows a lot less about computers than myself, or, and Apple Genius as they like to all themselves.
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John
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Sounds like somebody has been told they're cool.
The disk utility has now also lost my partition with my data on it, great, lucky it wasn't much.
[Edited on 31-07-2008 by John]
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John
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Installed and won't boot now.
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ed
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"The great thing about Apple products is, they just work...."
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John
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I didn't expect it to just work on my inspiron but i'm fed up now, i'm away back to windows, minus my data and a few hours.
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ed
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I have an interesting stat. My iPhone has crashed more times than my PC pver the past few months of owning it.
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