Installing Mac OS X on a PC with USB Thumb Drive The Definitive Guide. Introduction. As many before me have done and many after will no doubt attempt, installing Mac OS X on a non Apple piece of hardware is often a challenge where I suspect more fail then succeed. I personally have successfully achieved this more than once and have sought to document the process that I succeeded with in as much detail as possible so that those attempting this can also succeed and hopefully contribute to this article by sharing their experiences. This guide is all about getting Mac OS X onto your Acer Aspire One netbook but could be used for many different netbooks potentially. Im using the A1. A commandline application and Perl library for reading and writing EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, makernotes and other meta information in image, audio and video files. The 10page antidiversity screed that got a Google employee fired this week is a prime example of many, many societal ills. Besides the larger issues of. No, unfortunately, t5his article is mostly wrong. Other is not mostly your files, if you mean stuff you created. Many of OS X installed files are Other. Screen-Shot-2016-04-19-at-3.13.14-PM.png' alt='Iwork 08 Dmg Files' title='Iwork 08 Dmg Files' />Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 may be the best pick for business users, with major updates to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage. After a series of delays. L model which has 1. GB RAM and a 1. 20. GB hard disk but any of the Aspire Ones should work perfectly without deviating from any steps in this guide. In this guide Im installing from an 8. GB thumb drive but you could use an external DVD drive and boot from DVD instead. I will document this guide with as many screenshots and as much detail as possible and perhaps even a screenshow or two for the really tricky parts. If you run into problems, theres a massive community out there willing to provide suggestions or alternatives so just leave a comment and see how it goes And finally before you get going, good luck and hopefully in and hour or so youll have a practically fully functional Hackintosh What Youll NeedRequired Downloads. OK, heres your shopping list. Hopefully youve already got most if not all of the hardware and just need to download the software. Acer Aspire One or your choice of IntelAMD SSE2 hardware. Youre gonna wipe the drive on this baby so make sure theres nothing you want to keep on its hard drive. We can however preserve the restore partition during this procedure so you can restore the AA1 to its original Windows or Linux preload if you like. USB Thumb Drive minimum 8. Iwork 08 Dmg Files' title='Iwork 08 Dmg Files' />GB1 x working MAC to create the bootable thumb drive. Its also possible to create the bootable thumb drive using Windows but I havent documented that yet DVD optional. This is only required if. USB Thumb drive and receive errors when Restoring the i. Deneb ISO file to the thumb drive oryou would prefer to boot the Acer netbook using a DVD and an external USB DVD drive. DVD burner optional. If you need the blank DVD as above then Im assuming you also have the DVD burner, rightISO File. Deneb v. Universal for IntelAMD with support for SSE2. I cannot provide you with a download link for obvious reasons but you shouldnt have much problem finding it. Googling would be a good start. When youre downloading this save it to your Macs Desktop so we can get to it easily when required. Chameleon Bootloader. Diablos i. Deneb 1. Tools. PCEFI V1. Bootloader. This is used to fix a kernel panic when shutting down the AA1 when running on batteries. Download here. IOSDHCIBlock. Device. kext. This is to enable the Card Reader SDDownload here. Some patience, a little intelligence and a pinch of nerdiness. Stage 1 Creating Bootable Thumb Drive. Pre requisites For This Stage. ISO file downloaded and on the desktop. Working MAC booted up and at the desktop. USB Thumbdrive inserted. Chameleon Bootloader downloaded and extracted to a folder on your Desktop. PCEFI V1. 0. 1 Bootloader download and on your Desktop. Extra. zip downloaded and Extra folder extracted to your Desktop. Steps For This Stage. Warning You are following these steps at your own risk. You can and possibly will destroy all data on the netbook at some point in this install so back it up if it contains valuable filesStep 1 Partition The USB Thumb Drive. Octane Render C4d there. Open Disk Utility. Click Go Utilities Disk Utility. On the left side, select your USB Thumb Drive. Click the Partition tab on the right. Under Volume Scheme select 1 Partition. Click Options button. Select Master Boot Record Click OKOn the right, enter a name for your Volume Im using Mac. Boot. In the Format drop down field select Mac OS Extended. Click Apply button. When asked Are You Sure, click the Partition button if you are sure. Step 2 Restore The ISO File To The USB Thumb Drive. Still in Disk Utility, click the Images menu and then click Scan Images For RestoreBrowse to where you saved your ISO file mines on the Desktop, select it and click Scan. At this point, one of two things will happen. Your scan will be successful in which case you can proceed below when its complete. ORYou will get an error message saying Unable to scan filename. Invalid Argument. If you get this error message then skip down to the Troubleshooting section at the bottom of this page. When you scan is complete, highlight your newly created partition on your thumb drive on the left hand side of Disk Utility. Click the Restore tab on the right. Drag your thumb drive partition from the left side mines called Mac. Boot into the Destination field on the right. Drag your ISO file from the Desktop or browse for it if you prefer by clicking the Image button into the Source field on the right side. Select Erase Destination checkbox. Click Restore and Restore again. At this point, one of two things will happen. Your Restore process will chug away happily for a little while enough time to get a coffee, believe me and you can continue with the steps when its finished. OR You will  receive an error message such as Restore Failure. Could not find any scan informationIf you get this error message then skip down to the Troubleshooting section at the bottom of this page. Step 3 Make The Thumb Drive Bootable. If you havent already done, close Disk Utility but leave your Thumb Drive inserted. Open Terminal.   You can find this in Applications Utilities. Type diskutil list and press enter. You will see something similar to image below. Take a note of the number of the disk under the IDENTIFIER column as circled in red below. As you can see, mine is 1 One i. Now you need to change directory into the i. Chameleon directory that you extracted to your Desktop. You can do this by issuing the cdcommand and typing the remainder of the path which would be something like. UsersyourusernameDesktopChameleon 2. RC2 r. 64. 0 bini. Tip A quick and easy way to do this in Mac OS X is to type cd and then simply drag the i. Terminal window and releasing the mouse button. It will fill in the correct path for you. Isnt Mac wonderful When youve entered the correct cd command, hit Enter. Now enter the following commands and be sure to swap the items in red with the correct ones from your system as discussed in step 4 above and press Enter after each. You may be asked to enter your password. Free Avatar Games For Xbox 360. Just enter it and press Enteragain. UsersyourusernameDesktopboot VolumesMac. Boot. Close Terminal. Back on your Desktop, you should have downloaded and extracted Extra. If not go back to the What Youll Need stage of this article and download it. Now copy the Extra folder a simple drag n drop is fine from the Desktop into the root directory of your Thumb Drive. Thats it  Mac OS X Bootable USB Thumb Drivecreated. Make sure it looks similar to the image below. The most important of folders being highlighted in red. Stage 2 Booting From The Thumb Drive Installing OS XPre requisites For This Stage. Bootable USB Thumb Drive or bootable DVD if you prefer has been successfully created. Steps For This Stage.