I’ve done this several times in the last several days, so I thought I’d document it:

1. Pop in Kalyway’s 10.5.2 disk and install OSX as usual
2. After it finishes and you get the welcome video, it’ll ask you if you want to transfer settings from another Mac. Here you choose to restore from TimeMachine. This restores nearly everything, except the kernel, which means you are running the one on the installer (10.5.2).
3. You may, at this point, need to install a few drivers and whatnot. I have to install NTFS-3g and MacFuse again, for instance. I also install aquamac’s nvidia drivers and use osx86tools to set my graphics card EFI string in com.apple.Boot.plist so that I get QE (Quartz Extreme - basically support for hardware accellaration for your video card). Note that if I don’t do this all my drop-down menus are blank - just white menus with nothing on them.
4. Install Kalyway’s 10.5.3 combo update.
5. Install 10.5.4 directly from Apple (don’t use software update - download it manually)
6. Instal 10.5.5 directly from Apple (download it) using netkas‘ method of constantly removing AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext during the install (otherwise it crashes as I’m running it mid-way through and hoses my installation). All you do is run this in terminal before you start the update:
   

   sudo -s
   while sleep 1 ; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext ; done

7. Reboot, cross your fingers.
8. Optionally: download and install the voodoo kernel, which is useful if you have a quadcore system (I found my system gets much, much faster with it). It also fixes a sound bug that some people get where sounds stutter or sound fuzzy right when they begin (but sound fine if they continue playing - as with a movie or an mp3).

Tags: configuration, installation

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