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Hi,

Been reading through the various posts but can't seem to get a definitive idea on what steps I need to take to get the ball rolling.

I have spare SATA 40GB drive sitting on my desk that is waiting for an OS X install to go onto it.

However I would appreciate if someone could quickly list what steps I need to take to get the install underway. I have seen various releases of OS X for Intel but I don't know which one I should be looking for (iAKTOS etc?).

Ideally what I want to do is to create a DVD of whatever release I have, plug in the 40GB hdd into my Thinkpad and then let the DVD go through the process of installing OS X onto this hard drive.

The plan is to then have two drives, one containing my Vista x64/Debian OSes and one with the OS X install.

My Thinkpad spec is:

Intel Core 2 Duo vPro (T7800 @ 2.6Ghz)
4GB Memory
nVidia Quadro FX 570M 256MB Graphics
15.4" WXGA Screen

Cheers,

V

okay had some success, downloaded the kalway 10.5.2 DVD, burnt it and hey presto installed without a hitch on my spare data notebook drive.

Boots up fine however I have low res, no sound and no network - anyone worked with kalyway and can give me some pointers?

Cheers,

V

I seem to be answering my own questions hehe.

I have been reading up and due to the specs of the T61p I have it's not easy to get OS X onto it in a working state (having said that, the installation process is dead simple).

I decided to dig out my old T41p, got hold of an 2.5" 80GB IDE drive and tried out two flavours of distro's going around, Kalyway and Jas (I was unable to obtain iATKOS distro's from anywhere to also compare.

Out of the two Jas worked really well, probably because it's aimed at the older SSE2 hardware. The only thing I couldn't get working Wifi/Bluetooth however a small issue.

Surprised at how well it runs on the T41p so I might tinker about with some drivers and see if I can get a stable version on there otherwise it's back to Debian for this trusty T41p.

I have the same laptop as you, and I'm pretty pleased with what I've got so far.

Things I have working:

VESA video with full resolution/color depth
Wireless (Thinkpad a/b/g/n)
Ultrabay SATA HDD
bluetooth

the things I don't have working yet:

Ethernet
QE/CI
Audio out/mic (speakers work)
Boot to ultrabay
battery indicator

That's about it. If I get these things worked out I'm going to leave OS X as the primary OS, otherwise I may end up swapping drives again (one day!) the Nvidia 570 card is supported more fully.