Guide-Creating a OS X installer(Iatkos ML2)from windows only. Note:This guide is for those who don't have access to a mac and for some reasons cannot install the retail image on virtualbox. What you will need:::: 1.A Windows PC. 2.Two USB Flash drives.One of at least 8 GB and the other of atleast 1 GB. 4.Last but not the least,an IatkosML2 image based on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2.(I cannot provide you the link to download Iatkos. You are on your own in downloading this one.) NOTE: Iatkos distributions are the modified copies of Mac OS X made to be able to work on a PC. I STRONGLY ADVISE USE THIS TEMPORARILY to set up OS X on your computer and then create a installer from a LEGACY PURCHASED retail image.

1. Download Iso To Usb Bootable

For more info on Iatkos visit The Steps::::: 1.Connect the 1 GB USB stick on your computer. 2.Run Bootdiskutility,select your USB from the list and click on Format disk.The utility will install clover and chameleon bootloaders on your USB drive. 34.15KB 3770 downloads 3.Decompress the dmg2img folder and move the IatkosML2.dmg file in the folder containing the dmg2img.exe file.

4.Right click on the folder containing dmg2img.exe while HOLDING DOWN SHIFT KEY i.e Shift+Right click and select 'Open command window here' from the context menu. For those who want to know how to change the language, in case you're still following this post: for whatever reason, whenever an OS X installer is used to boot from Clover, the language is automatically selected to some language other than English. There should be a back arrow from the installer, to the left of where the 'continue' button usually is. This should bring back the language selection menu. Select English (or whatever other language tickles your fancy) and hit continue. This should enable you to continue the installation in whatever language you selected. I hope this helps!

Hi first post in insanelymac; though i am reading various posts in this site; OP has indicated that we need two flashdisks (preferably?) and a modded distro (iatkos.); i would differ You just need one flashdisk (8gb) and a vanialla store app (dmg); you dont require a VM/virtual box nore you need a running mac; how? Installation procedure for Mountain Lion 10.8.2 without using a MAC / virtual machine. How to create a Vanilla Mavericks Installer USB using Windows (Illustrated Guide) I thought I would post an updated guide for creating a Vanilla Mavericks Installer USB with plenty of photos, seeing that IATKOS M is no longer supported here and many new users from Windows still rely on 'distros'. This is a compilation of information from posts found scattered throughout this forum but may not be obvious to hackintosh virgins. Requirements. 8GB or larger USB stick. (shareware, free trial for 15 days).

InstallESD.dmg Summary. Create a folder C: Mavericks in Windows Explorer. Obtain InstallESD.dmg and copy into C: Mavericks. Extract BaseSystem.dmg and Packages folder into C: Mavericks. Extract machkernel to C: Mavericks. Create Mavericks Installer with BootDiskUtility, Paragon Partition Manager Free and Transmac. Install Mavericks with the USB Installer Illustrated Procedure 1) Create a folder C: Mavericks in Windows Explorer 2) Obtain InstallESD.dmg and copy into C: Mavericks.

This can be from A the Official Mac AppStore “Install OS X Mavericks.app” i) I copied the retail “Install OS X Mavericks.app” from the Applications folder of my Mac Mini’s hard drive to an exFAT formatted USB storage drive using Finder. The file can then be copied from the USB stick into C: Mavericks of the Windows machine with Windows Explorer. Ii) Open InstallESD.dmg inside Install OS X Mavericks.app Contents SharedSupport with 7-Zip 126KB 230 downloads iii) Find and copy the other InstallESD.dmg inside InstallESD.dmg InstallMacOSX.pkg into C: Mavericks with 7-Zip 147.97KB 163 downloads 145.12KB 121 downloads B Download from the internet.

There are numerous ways to create for hackintosh, most of them are Chameleon based and Unibeast is just one of them. The installation process is quite simple if you bought your copy from App store.

Download Unibeast and just follow tonymacx86 instructions and you are good to go. But you should consider that tonymacx86 is not an open source and therefore is not in OSx86 spirit. Also apparently he stole the code from qoopz, nawcom, AnV and few others that made the legacy kernel. Is one great explanation why you should not use tonymacx86, and is another. But there is another way to install it and even more, it supports raw installESD.dmg instalation, it’s called, it’s Chameleon based USB Instaler + after install utility. MyHack functionality is more less the same as Unibeast + Multibeast, just simplier and better When installing Mac OS X, it would be a good idea to use one extra hard disk drive for the installation, to preserve your old operating system, just in case something goes wrong.

You will need USB stick, minimum 8GB, all the data will be erased, so back it up if needed and format back after finish installation. Also working OS X SL 10.6.8 or Lion is needed to make a bootable Mountain Lion USB. (if u don’t already have a working OS X and using Windows, you can download, burn and temporary install iatkos L1 ISO image (search torrents) and install it like shown on (drivers selection depends on your hardware).

Download Iso To Usb Bootable

Second option, if you are using Windows is to install Snow Leopard or Lion on a virtual machine , and run Unibeast on there instead. Virtualbox Extension Pack will be also needed to view USB drives from vm. This method will probably not work if your computer uses an Ivy Bridge processor. With working OS X SL or Lion you can buy and download Mountain Lion from the App Store. If you’ve already bought it you can navigate to the Purchased tab and grab it from here. Once it’s downloaded the Installer will pop up but instead of running it just close it. Use to create your bootable USB installer Post navigation.

Thanks for your reply Marco. I’m glad if this helped you even in harder way:). I think that you made a mistake.

When u expand Unibeast with pkgutil –expand command, go to Finder, and from top menu click Go, than double click Computer and than your system hard drive. Here you will see /Users folder and inside is a folder with your user name. Inside your user name folder is UnibeastTemp folder which is created with expand command. You don’t need to expand Unibeast 1.5.3, just copy InstallESD.dmg inside your mac install app’s content folder as described in tuto.

Marco mentioned he couldn’t find some files, I made the mistake of not opening a new terminal window so the commands unpacked/created UnibeastTemp etc. To the Contents folder in the ML install.app!

You do state to open a new terminal so anyone having issues should first make sure they do ‘pkgutil –expand /Users/xx/Desktop/UniBeast - Mountain Lion 1.7.0.pkg UnibeastTemp’ in a new terminal window or ‘cd’ back to their user folder first or risk wasting precious time hunting down the temp folder! (Spotlight wont find files in.app packages!). Yeahhhh man, that’s the mistake that happen to me Anyway, installation was ok, until ive to delete my nvidia drivers due to a black screen during my first boot after install chameleon So, my hack boots in 1024×768 mode, system profile says C/I enabled, but my video is very creepy and slow, i try some kexts for my gforce9400gt, but when i install kexts almost all of them says that they cannot install in my machine, when i boot in verbose mode, all of my nvdia kexts say that “couldn’t load”, i tried erasing all nvidia kext in my s/l/e, but theres no way to i can get fully workin video Any ideas? My mobo is a Intel DP65BG with 4gb Ram, and 2 TB HD Install via unibeast (obviouslly), an then Chameleon wizard.

I have done all the process for my raw InstallESD.dmg mentioned in the steps After creating bootable usb when i plug it to my pc and after that installation is started then i have formated my drive for installation of ML when i click install the error is “InstallESD.dmg is damaged can’t install” is this happen because of raw dmg file or contents of dmg files are hidden? I search on google then the answer is you have to first unhide the contents of dmg then there is another file BootSystem.dmg i have mount that also but the question is we have to drag the Install Mountain Lion app from InstallEsd.dmg or from BootSystem.dmg?

Help me out very panic.