jdc6799 Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 I am a newbie. I have a spare gateway md7818u laptop that i would love to install osx lion on. I have done some research and think it is possible, but I am not sure how. Is there a step by step tutorial for the install? The machine currently has vista installed. My end goal is to have a dual boot for osx and windows. Please help!! The machine has an intel core 2 duo, 4gb of ram, and a 50gb harddrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Syonagar Posted August 4, 2012 Administrators Share Posted August 4, 2012 Dear jdc, What graphics card, sound card, wifi card and lan network card you have in there? Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc6799 Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 Graphics card- Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family Sound card- Intel ® High Definition Audio (HDMI) WiFI card- Intel ® Wireless WiFi Link 5100 Correction from previous post - 500gb hd Also, I do not have access to a Mac. All the tutorials I have seen require a Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc6799 Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 Lan card- Generic Marvell Yukon 88E8057 PCI-E gigabit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted August 4, 2012 Administrators Share Posted August 4, 2012 Hi, Download lspci for windows here: http://eternallybored.org/misc/pciutils/ Run it, and copy/paste the result here. That will give us a better idea about what you have running there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc6799 Posted August 4, 2012 Author Share Posted August 4, 2012 Well.. I could not get the program you specified to work. Hopefully, this is not a sign of things to come. I downloaded a different system info program and ran that. Here are the results: Summary Operating System MS Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 CPU Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00GHz 49 °C Penryn 45nm Technology RAM 4.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 332MHz (5-5-5-15) Motherboard Gateway 46 °C Graphics Generic PnP Monitor (1366x768@60Hz) Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family Hard Drives 466GB Western Digital WDC WD5000BEVT-75ZAT0 ATA Device (SATA) 41 °C Optical Drives HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50F ATA Device Audio Conexant High Definition SmartAudio 221 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted August 4, 2012 Administrators Share Posted August 4, 2012 Have a look here: http://www.cnet.com/laptops/gateway-md7818u/4505-3121_7-33496190.html Good news: OSX Lion will run on this system Bad news: It have Intel 4500 MHD, you will be able to get correct resolution, but no acceleration - aka.. no fun :-/ Sorry mate :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc6799 Posted August 5, 2012 Author Share Posted August 5, 2012 Thanks for the good news!! Cake with out icing is still cake. I would like to install OSX on this machine, if it will be stable. BTW- it does not have to be Lion. Whatever OSX version is best for the machine is ok. How do I install? Thanks again for the help!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted August 5, 2012 Administrators Share Posted August 5, 2012 First of all, you might have to do some heavy DSDT editing, second of all you deffently need to dump lspci - with that you have little idea of hw addresses etc. But its all here.. so try it out: http://www.osxlatitude.com/edp/pre-installation/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdc6799 Posted August 6, 2012 Author Share Posted August 6, 2012 First of all, you might have to do some heavy DSDT editing, second of all you deffently need to dump lspci - with that you have little idea of hw addresses etc. But its all here.. so try it out: http://www.osxlatitude.com/edp/pre-installation/ I have completed the myHack steps for creating the USB installer (1-2), should I continue to step 3 listed at (http:myHack.sojugarden.com/guide/) or should I add the boot pack from the osxlatitude site. If I need the boot pack, how do I know which one the website does not have any Gateway machines listed. Additionally, if I need a custom boot pack how do I make it? Thanks for the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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