However, both will help you boot into the installation. Each one has it's own function which you'll know later. The HackBoot 1 and HackBoot 2 ISO files. If that doesn’t fit well with you, you can head over to the Mac App Store and buy a legit copy for yourself, so you can at least pirate with a clear conscience. The hacking group Olarila has put a great installation ISO together, and you can find it by searching Google. Sadly, this won’t work with a vanilla Mountain Lion installer, so you’ll have to find a compatible hacked version. You should download the main program and the Extension Pack, which will give you support for USB devices. VirtualBox doesn’t officially support OS X, but it’s actually very easy to get up and running. VirtualBox and the VirtualBox Extension Pack: VirtualBox is my favourite virtualisation tool for Windows, and it’s completely free. This list should help you find out whether yours does. Note that your processor also needs to support VT-x.
If you’re on a 32-bit version of Windows, you can install Snow Leopard instead (Google it as this instructable is for Mountain Lion not Snow Leopard).
Mountain Lion is 64-bit, and thus requires your copy of Windows to be 64-bit.
A PC running 64-bit Windows with at least a dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM. iso file and access it on the other system.īefore you start the installation process, you’ll want to gather the following: Use an external HD or thumb drive which is in ExFAT format (Compared to FAT format, this allows for single files larger than 4GB).Disk Utility will insist on saving the new ISO as a. In the Save As dialog that follows, select DVD/CD master.From the menu bar, select Images > Convert and point it to your.This dmg file is in essence an ISO file in s slightly different format.
In the folder that appears, open Contents > Shared Support you’ll see a disk image file called InstallESD.dmg.Right-click (or Control+click) the installer, and choose Show Package Contents from the resulting contextual menu.It’s called Install OS X Mavericks.app and it should have been downloaded to your main Applications folder or be sat in your Dock. Once you’ve downloaded Mavericks, find the installer on your Mac.
This is the official way to get the file direct from Apple, but there is still work to do to make it into an ISO: