How to tell if i have a pirated copy of leopard?

[Consultant]

OP, you have messed it even more, that's why you can't get the login screen to appear.

There is no "bug with handling 8 characters or more". No such thing.

The original problem is probably due to harddrive being damaged in some way.

Next time, say I don't know, instead of messing up other people's machines even more.

 

[dukebound85]

Quads are the hardest machines to get Leopard running on, so basically as your even having to ask us these questions i'd say you have no chance.

whatever, it was a breeze on my q6600 with a retail install, not a distro

 

[ChrisA]

It is a Acer Aspire 3680 and seems to have a version of leopard installed. I'm not really up with the apple macs at all. Infact i think this is like the second apple mac

What you have a NOT a Mac. It was not built by Apple.

Do not judge the quality of Apple product by this piece of junk.

Apple does not allow Leopard to be installed on non-Apple hardware so the copy you have is 100% for sure pirated and "patched". The most ethical thing you could do is re-format the hard drive and put on some other operating system. Get BSD, Linux or whatever and use that.

 

[Totti]

The fact ive hackintoshed all the PC's in my house for all my family, and a few at work for 'research purposes' which covers everything from random nvidia chipsets, dual cores, even AMD's, but i never ever ever ever ever ever had so much trouble as trying to get it to install on my own Q6600 PC Core 2 Quad machine. I eventually had to make my own distro which was a modified Kalyway.

Even an Efix card doesn't work, the latest Kalyway and iAtkos releases dont work, none of the new Kalyway kexts work, its a problem with the Darwin Bootloader not recognizing the processor as having 4 cores, and has to be fixed in the BIOS.

Wierd! I have a Q6600 and ideneb installed perfectly, first time.

 

[dukebound85]

What you have a NOT a Mac. It was not built by Apple.

Do not judge the quality of Apple product by this piece of junk.

Apple does not allow Leopard to be installed on non-Apple hardware so the copy you have is 100% for sure pirated and "patched". The most ethical thing you could do is re-format the hard drive and put on some other operating system. Get BSD, Linux or whatever and use that.

thats not ethical. more like illegal

how bout you get some ethics of your own while your at it and dont advocate to destroy property that isnt yours

 

[clyde2801]

When you first boot the computer up, does it go 'boing' or 'arrrgh'?

 

[brand]

i agree totally - people shouldnt look down on fellow mac users who want to turn their crappy PC's into awsome leopard machines!!

I wouldn't call someone running a Hackintosh a fellow mac user. A PC is not a Mac no matter how much you want it to be.

 

[DoFoT9]

I wouldn't call someone running a Hackintosh a fellow mac user.

see this is where the line becomes shady!! i have a hackintosh. i also have 5 other macintoshes running in the house, i have only purchased 1 PC in my whole life. it was NEVER getting used. i turned it into a hackintosh and it gets used every day...

whats wrong with that?

A PC is not a Mac no matter how much you want it to be.

explain this more. are we talking OS based, hardware based, or quality build base?? because i am FAIRLY certain that the first two are the same, im also pretty certain that i could build something the same quality of a mac - not as good a looking but.

 

[andiwm2003]

This has been discussed again and again, but that doesn't make your opinion less wrong. EULAs are binding unless they contain terms that are deemed unacceptable by a court. For example, putting terms into a license that you can't sue for any reason would be invalid. Unless you can find something in Apple's license that a court would reject as unacceptable, that license is binding. .................................

well, you can't read Apples EULAS before opening the software. That alone makes it invalid. In addition usually by paying for an item you get all rights transferred to you and withholding parts of the rights is not legally valid. In such a case the parts of the EULA in question get replaced by the according law in the Bürgeliches Gesetzbuch (Civil Law). Thats why you can legally build, sell and buy Hackintoshs in Germany. Other european countries have similar laws. There is no way that courts uphold the Eula. Hacking the OS by reverse compiling is the legally sketchy part.

But whatever, believe what makes you happy......