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help for a noob

my name is egidio and i am Italian so i apologize for any grammatical error this is my problem: i would like to install snow leopard on my not apple pc. i looked for guides and how-to on the and i saw that i need of a working osx system to…

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@egidio Published 2010-02-05
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Leopard 10.5
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8,206 historical reads · 2 curated field notes (from 5 dispatches) · 2010-02-05 – 2010-02-08
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@egidio (3)@stanca@snakeo2

my name is egidio and i am Italian so i apologize for any grammatical error
this is my problem: i would like to install snow leopard on my not apple pc. i looked for guides and how-to on the and i saw that i need of a working osx system to install snow leopard, so i looked for patched version of leopard and i found iatkos v7 but i can't install it. i'm looking for other releases or version of patched version of leopard, for precision version that have been tested on amd based systems. this is my configuration :
Cpu: amd phenom II 965 BE
Mb: asus chrossair formula
Ram:g.skill 2x2gb ddr3 1600mhz cl8
Vga: asus (ati) hd4850 512mb ddr3.
the first time that i tried to install iatkos it recognized the hdd (setted to ahci) but during the installation process it halted (appeared a kernel panic window) and now this window appear each time i try to boot from iatkos cd so i can't try new installation...what's happened? i haven't modified anything in the bios setup. i have also tried to format the hdd with seagate's utility and under windows but nothing... any idea? thank you far the support guys!:)

Author Updates & Technical Revisions

Follow-up dispatches by @egidio

Author Update #1 @egidio 2010-02-07

thanks for the reply... i am new in mac's world but i realized that kernel panic is similar at the blue screen of windows..isn't it?so i'm trying to understand a reason why i recive this "blue screen" and i have a trouble: does leopard support ddr3 ram? i think that it supports it... do you know if there are direct links to the 2 distros that you have suggested me? i know that google is a powerful "weapon" but i don't know which version of them i have to search

Author Update #2 @egidio 2010-02-08

i have got ideneb 10.6.1, the release with snow leopard. do you think it will run?

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2 technical responses curated from 5 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @stanca 2010-02-06

I just know that Zephyroth's Mac OS X 10.5.2 for AMD EFI-REV2 is the best for Amd systems.It works perfectly for me from the beginning.But looking to your system configuration,newer and more powerfull than mine,you could try the new Mac OS X 10.6.2 from Hazard's.Just my opinion(2 cents).

Field Note #2 @snakeo2 2010-02-07

I have a similar setup as yours. You may want to try Ideneb 10.5.8 lite edition. Before you boot, make sure you change your bios setting to "ahci".

Sources & Contributor Provenance (3 credited usernames · Thread #5434)
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@egidioPrimary Author32010-02-05 → 2010-02-08
@stancaContributor12010-02-06
@snakeo2Contributor12010-02-07