Then VirtualBOX will let you link to a physical drive, with a command something like this: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename drive2.vmdk With that setup, I could then use the diskutil program on OS X deadmoo, and create a compressed disk image of the PowerPC 10.4.6. I then could use Qemu’s disk image conversion program to convert the 10.4.6 disk I installed with PearPC into a VMDK which I could then mount under the deadmoo image. Next I dug out the ancient ancestor of all the hackintoshes, the deadmoo 10.4.1 image, and got it running on VirtualBOX (set the IDE to P3 mode, otherwise its SLOW!), after converting the raw 6GB image into a VMDK. But at least I could create a small install of 10.4.6 which will boot on a G5. Sadly PearPC doesn’t support raw disks, otherwise my original plan of popping in the disk to my PC, running PearPC and having it install to \\.\PhysicalDrive2 didn’t work so well. Until I decide to try something insane, so I get the great emulator PearPC, and install 10.4 into that. So I’ve basically got a $100 paper weight. And I don’t have any old ATA/parallel style DVD drives on me. So I figure I’d just pop in a 10.4 or 10.5 DVD set and boot up, format and all will be well right? Well it turns out the DVD drive doesn’t work properly. You’d be surprised how many people ditch good machines, because the OS is messed up. Part of the reason it was cheap is because the OS was screwed up. I wanted to see if I could get a cheap mac, and I managed to get a $100 mac out here in Vegas. So basically it starts like this, I left my quad G5 mac in storage, some 1,600 miles away.
This has to be one of the more convoluted things I’ve ever done.
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