Tiger on PearPC

I don't know if it's the best way but it's the only way that worked for me, when I tried to boot from the DVD I ended up with this screen:

So after searching the web and almost crying myself to sleep, I found the light @Neowin, they were using this method to install on iBooks that did not have superdrives and on powerbooks that were presenting kernel panic when installing.

  1. So this is what I did to get Tiger into my system:
  2. Install Panther (ok, I already had it installed so call me a cheater) on a 6 GB partition.
  3. Create an ISO that contains Tiger's DMG/CDR -- I made mine with WinISO (just drag that DMG inside and save).
  4. Boot up into Panther with the 6 GB HD as master and the ISO containing the DMG as slave.
  5. Copy the DMG to your Panther HD (this is why we needed 6 GB!)
  6. Shut down your PearPC, and add another HD image that will contain Tiger (I prefer the 6 GB but I understand that HD space is precious. Tiger without all the crap takes up about 1.4 GB)
  7. Boot up into Panther with the 6 GB HD as master and the empty HD as slave
  8. Double click on the DMG/CDR file that you copied in step 5, this will mount the drive image as a removable drive
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  9. Open the removable drive and go to /System/Installation/Packages/ from there double click on OSInstall.mpkg
  10. This will run the installer, which will get you to the setup steps:
  11. The installer will ask you where you want your Mac OS X to be installed, select the empty drive (like you had a choice!!! it won't let you install in the currently loaded OS X and it won't let you install in the mounted volume, this is why we need the empty drive)
  12. Select custom install and remove everything you can't/won't/don't use! (anything that is related to languages you don't know, sound, apps you don't use, etc.)

    From 3.2 GB required space to 1.4, just by removing things I'll nvever see!
  13. After that you can take a vacation while it installs.... but there's a catch (at least this is what happened to me): it never finishes!!!! My install started at 7:03 pm (windows time, the pearpc time's b0rked) and by 8:06 it had been a while since I had heard no HD movement / seen no change in this screen:

    So I decided to open up the installer log (Under Installer or File menu I believe it was) and selected "Show Everything"

    The telling sign was "Finalizing disk for Local OS Install"
  14. After you're sure that the installer is doing nothing, and that you can see files in the previously empty HD

    Shut down your Mac.
  15. In your config file, set the newly Tiger-ized HD as the master and (optionally) the Panther as the slave and boot up!
    NOTE: Maybe it would be useful to change the startup drive from within Panther in Preferences? I did not do it... so this follows my experience. Besides I have PearPC set up so I can select boot partition so this might not be needed.
    If all went well you'll start booting up in Tiger:

  16. Now just change your resolution to something more useful and enjoy tiger =)