If you chose “OPTION B (ADVANCED)” move onto “step 6”.Ħ) Go ahead and pop your OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or OS X 10.7 (Lion) install disc into your Mac Pro.Ī) Install either OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or OS X 10.7 (Lion) onto your “OS X Recovery” volume. Click Ok.Ĥ) Now click “Apply” and let the application complete it’s task.ĥ) If you chose “OPTION A (STANDARD)” move onto “ PART 2″. NOTE: PROCEED WITH OPTION B IF YOU WANT A RECOVERY OS INSTALLED. What I mean by “Recovery OS” is a second copy of OS X intended for recovery purposes should you happen to get locked out of your main OS.Ī) Now click on the drop down box under “Partition Layout” and select “3 Partitions”.Ĭ) Name the second partition “OS X Setup” and resize it to 8GB (You can get away with 5GB, but may end up having to reformat the whole drive if the next release of OS X has a larger setup size).ĭ) Name the third partition “OS X Recovery” and use the remainder of disk space for this partition.ģ) After setting up the partitions click on the “Options” button under “Partition Layout” and select “Master Boot Record”.
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NOTE: WE WILL BE DOING A CLEAN INSTALL! YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO PROCEED WITH JUST AN “UPGRADE” BUT CHANCES ARE SOMETHING WILL FAIL, EITHER IMMDIATELY AFTER THE UPGRADE PROCESS OR LATER ON DOWN THE ROAD.Ģ) Select the spare hard drive in the sidebar, then proceed to the “Partition” tab.Ī) Now click on the drop down box under “Partition Layout” and select “2 Partitions”.ī) Name the first partition “Startup Disk” and resize it to 1GB.Ĭ) Name the second partition “OS X Setup” and use the remainder of disk space for this partition. Consider getting a drive with at least 20GB of space (although a 10GB drive will also do).
You can get by with using the card, but won’t have Quartz Extreme enabled (Everything on screen should seem very slow/laggy as hell) until you swap the card out with a newer and supported one.ģ) A spare hard drive to use as a startup disk for Chameleon and the OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) Install. The stock NVidia card included with the Mac Pro won’t do. Cheers to a successful install :).Ģ) OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) from the Apple Developer Center (or other shady means).Ģ) An upgraded graphics card. I haven’t tried the official release yet, but hopefully will before the end of the week. Just a quick update, I’ve gotten all DP releases and the GM release of Mavericks to run flawlessly on my Mac Pro. UPDATE, NOVEMBER 14, 2013: Sorry about the slow updates, been busy lately. Always remember to back up your data before tinkering with the System xD. Looks like it forwards EFI64 calls over to the EFI32 firmware. UPDATE, JANUARY 9, 2014: Hi there! Looks like there’s a new and better method of installing Mavericks without the need of using Chameleon, it boots natively! I haven’t personally tested it yet, but after reading the thread, it looks promising. UPDATE, NOVEMBER 3, 2014: Looking for help with OS X 10.10 Yosemite? Check out the forum thread listed below :D!
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