I certainly don’t want to see THAT
Right!
Downloaded all 36 parts, used WinRAR to join them up into one single ISO file.
Partitioned my external hard drive into two parts – an 8Gb partition for the ISO, and the rest for all the kexts and install files I’d need once I got OS X installed.
I successfully used Leopard HD Install Helper to install the ISO on my external hard drive.
So then my heart filled with trepidation.
I rebooted the Compaq, saw the new “Choose Windows or OSX” menu (thanks to the Leapoard helper), though “ooh, I don;t haveOSX yet, I’ll stick with Windows and boot from the external drive. So I did that, and got…
a black screen with a flashing cursor.
Ah.
Realised my mistake, this time I rebooted, and told it to boot OSX. It gave me the option of booting from either of the partitions on my external hard drive, so I picked the iDeneb ISO.
Oooo! An Apple Logo!
Answered the obligatory “language” question, and then got the oh-so-helpful iDeneb menu.
Now what?
No idea.
I foolishly assumed it would be self explanatory from this point on.
A quick Google revelaed I needed to go into Utilities -> Disk Utility, and format the new empty partition ready for Mac use.
I did this, (formatted Disk0s2 as Mac OS Journaled).
The Google page I was reading then told me to fix the MBR in Options. Only I couldn’t find an ‘Options’ for that partition. I found one for the hard drive itself, but didn;t do anything because I didn’t really know what I was doing.
So I just rebooted, presuming that now I’d formatted the OSX disk, it would run through the install procedure this time.
And what did I get?
“Missing operating system”
Arsebiscuits.
