Hackintosh Home Server

I left this off where I had a server with no OS, and a backup that was totally useless. I decided trying to get the backup working was not worth my time, so I soldiered onwards trying to install Yosemite on the server. As luck would have it, the same distro I used for Mavericks now had a Yosemite version! It took its good ol’ time, but the installer eventually booted. [Read More]

I mentioned a few months ago that I was hoping the home server would be able to be upgraded to Yosemite when the time came. Over my winter break, I decided to give it a shot. Until now, the server was happily (albeit slowly) running using an OS X distro. Max resolution with the integrated Intel HD 3000 Graphics was 1280x1024, since OS X never supported HD 3000. Doing anything on screen or with screen sharing was insanely slow, but it worked. [Read More]

(Oh wow, it’s already been nearly a month since my last post? So I’ve been busy. Sue me.) As we know from last time, I came to the conclusion that running OS X on the server was my only real option for what I wanted to do, but I didn’t want to get new hardware. Usually if you want to run OS X on non-Apple hardware, you have to carefully pick components that will work just right with OS X. [Read More]

I’ve been using Windows 8 on the server for a while now. It worked fine for what we needed. I didn’t care for the setup much, but I didn’t need to mess with it much either, so I got along fine with it overall. But then I tried to host a website on it… I grabbed XAMPP for Windows and got to work migrating my website over. That wasn’t really an issue. [Read More]