Now that Hackintoshes are apparently legit, has anyone DONE IT?

Just asking.

I tried my hand at installing OS X Snow Leopard on a CF-30 with the aid of the OSX86 project, but never got passed the rolling wheel post-apple-logo

 

Why would you do that!?!?! UHHHHG!

Lol, sorry, I have to give you crap for that one... lolol

 

Look at iljajj other devices and you'll understand why )

Toughbook Air - sounds great

 

Oh, I understand.. I saw that right away lol!

 

I'd gladly hop over to my Toughbook fully so long as I could use Ubuntu for editing PDFs, use my Reference Library (3000 PDFs, difficult to export) and administer a hugeish music collection in iTunes (it's a pig on Windows, but it's the only music player that will sort classical music properly). Alas, that's not possible, so I thought trying it the other way around. Haven't had much success sofar, and before trying further I'd like to see if other people HAD managed to get OS X going.

 

tonymacx86 Forum • View topic - Panasonic Toughbook CF30 MK2 SL Guide CF-30
my husband did it on s cf-18 for me once, no idea how though.

but editing pdf's in windows and music in fubar2000 is great, ( i dont like iTunes )

 

My understanding a while ago this was against forum rules but they are letting it ride so to speak for now BUT As long as no one discusses pirating the OS.

 

Ive done it three- four times purchasing a new retail disk- worked very well on a Dell Mini 10v and Mini 9- but I like my Toughbook running Ubuntu (thanks Jeff)

 

I found the MK2 CF-30 did not play well with Ubuntu. Mk1 no problem. One article I read said basically that the Intel version the MK2 used was broken as far as Ubuntu was concerned.(no clue what this meant...my memory doesn't serve)
I would love to hear that this has changed. this was 6 months ago +- and the MK2 FAIK is humming merrily away in someone else's hands running XPP or 7.

EDIT: Would this matter if it was running Snow Leopard or anything else? If the problem is Intel then a machine change may be in order. (I say this having zero experience w/ Mac Apple)

I write this on a MK1 CF-30...HDD from a CF-52 that went tango uniform while I was doing my taxes. 20 minute HDD change and I was working again.

What I mean is Ubuntu/Linux doesn't care what machine you are on. It just runs. X-cept on MK2.

What this has to do with this thread IDK but my name was mentioned so that's worth the 2 cents.

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bottom line
Unless it's changed IMHO MK2 CF-30 and Ubuntu don't play. Please tell me if I'm wrong.......BTW I quit at 10.04 LTS upgraded locally to 10.10. Ubuntu 11 and up was outrunning the graphics capability of the CF-29....and that is my love. (the 29)

Thanks UNC....

Jeff

 

Ive done it on over a dozen computers. Although never on a toughbook. Then again, its never been illegal here in sweden. Frowned upon, yes. But never illegal.

 

Funny you should say that. I took a flyer last week and loaded W7 on a new drive for the CF-52 by putting it in the CF-30 MK3 and using the CF-30 restore disk. Stuck the drive in the 52 and its up and running 100%, absolutely no tweaking required. I was feeling pretty proud of myself, I hadn't seen this trick here, did I miss it?
CAP

 

I've done it on my dell with a retail Snow Leopard disk. NOT illegal here either, but I believe it's against theirs terms of use agreement.
I really enjoy OSX and their products in general (though never owned one). I found I was using the Win side almost exclusively so I deleted the partition to get back the space.
It would be cool to have a "toughmac" though.

 

I've run Ubuntu 11.04 on a CF-30 Mk2 for six months now without any problem to speak of - everything worked instantly. I tried using 11.10, but that messed up the audio drivers (PulseAudio) so that the speaker would stay on even ALL the time, even with headphones. 12.04 seems better, though, but I've only booted that from a USB stick sofar.

 

Alright. They fixed something in Ubuntu. I had to add "noacpi" to grub to get by the Black screen of death using 10.04. And acpi runs all the special keys. It was an Intel issue is all I know.

I might look at 12.04 some day.

Thanks,

Jeff

 

Yeah, its against the EULA. Only in some countries, violating it is actually illegal.

As for "toughmacs", I have managed to get Tiger running relatively smoothly, but still far from optimal. In Leopard, I get a KP on the first reboot an then KP's on every boot. Snow Leopard cant even be installed. I'm not even going to attempt Lion. The TB in question is the CF-29 in my sig, with the exception of the harddrive. I'm running a WD 120gb atm.

 

I'd be a stupid Apple fanboi lining up for these two products that'll never happen:

- iPhone w/Blackberry keyboard and BBM
- ToughMacBook Pro

 

I have osx86 running on my cf-19, HP8540p/w and Tecra M7. Only problems are digitizer, spezial buttons, Wifi and too much RAM. Because of the the illegality, I own 2 original sets of OSX CDs....

 

I've been happily running Snow Leopard on my Mk1 CF-30 for months now. My touchscreen is broken (or at least I've never gotten it to work on Windows 7 or Linux either), so I can't speak for that, and I replaced my wifi card with an "Atheros AR5006EXS" (according to Windows) card that is compatible with Linux and OS X, but otherwise it was a straightforward process. The OS gets a bit confused about the whole dual-battery thing, so it doesn't display an accurate time remaining, but on the whole, it's a very good experience.

Note that the Mk1's CoreDuo CPU is 32bit only, so it cannot run OS X Lion.

 

Hi PacketCollison, could you give me some details how you achieved that (bootloader most of all)? Snow Leopard would be fine for me, I could ditch my MBP and go all-Toughbook (apart from ye olde Macce SE).

 

Um, I think I used Nawcom's ModUSB, but I could be wrong. If you can't get it working, I'll pop a clean hard drive in mine and actually document the process. I certainly used the version of Chameleon from TonyMac's MultiBeast as my bootloader once the OS was installed, and I made my own custom DSDT, which helps with hardware detection. It's probably not perfect, but it was my first manual DSDT edit, and it works well enough for me to use OS X as my daily OS, so I never bothered to refine it further.

In other news, I just got an awesome deal on a MkIII CF-30, so I'll be trying out OS X on that as soon as it arrives. I see no reason why the MkIII wouldn't support SL and Lion.