August 10, 2008
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OSX on IBM R32
Got this old IBM R32 from cousin since she is getting a new laptop.
After backing up data from the HDD, I installed my old IDE 40GB HDD to this comp.
WinXP, MSDos6.22, Ubuntu 8.04……. what other OS should I try?
Gotta be OSX from Apple.
This project started last week, I got some ISOs from the internet for OSX 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard. Of course I would love to try the Leopard but seems the comp is not strong enough. (Even a C2D not quite strong enough for Leopard….) But anyway, I upgraded it with a 512MB DDR 333 Ram to make it 768MB in total.
With those 10.5 Leopard installation DVDs, I can’t even boot up…………….
Lucky me, I could boot up with a 10.4.1 Tiger DVD….
I thought YEAH~~!!!!!!! ……………….It was really slow, just booting up took me like 15min.
setup everything, start installing………. 40min later….. “there was an error. …….”JESUS~!!!!!!!!!
Kept trying all the ways suggested on the internet, got other installion CDs, different versions, Now i almost got 10 installation DVDs for diff versions….
Tiger: 10.4.1, 10.4.7, XxX10.4.11……
Leo: 10.5.2, Leo4All3, Leo4All2, iATKOS V1, iATKOs v2, iATKOs V4.1, kalyway 10.5.2….I even tried installing XP before installing OSx, or boot it with other media…
Tonight, finally….. I installed it with XxX 10.4.11. Got some settings from the internet and I think it was because I didn’t format the HDD right before.
What I got now?
Let me play with it for abit, then see how to upgrade it more.
Comments (2)
I am planning the same endeavor
Did you get all the hardware to work … most important wireless, energy management, sleep ?
Thanks
you are quite right. the wireless is not working. I think you will need a “mac compatible” WIFI mini PCI-E card to make the OS recognise it. The built in WIFI card cannot be recognised.
Sleep mode is working. Energy management — I have no idea, cause my battery is not working, so it basically works as a desktop.
Someone on the internet managed to install a OSX Leopard on this IBM machine (R32). You may wanna look it up.