Driving from Los Angeles to South Lake Tahoe is a breathtaking experience. This is about an 8 hr drive. First you will have to drive through Sacramento. Many people might have already taken that route to visit San Francisco, but some may have not.
Driving to Sacramento
There are many ways to get to South Lake Tahoe from LA, but this article will talk about interstate route 80. In order to get to route 80, we need to drive through Sacramento. Most of the drive will be farmland, but some parts are quite interesting. Before you get to the farmland, you will be driving through beautiful mountains. These mountains have breathtaking views, and also have hiking trails. After that there will be farmland, but don’t let that ruin your trip. There is much more to see after the farmland. For a little while, you will be driving through beautiful fluffy rolling hills with golden grass growing on them. After the beautiful scenery, there will be more farmland, but that’s only as you get closer to Sacramento. After you reach Sacramento, you can merge onto the 80. This is where the journey gets interesting.
Driving through the mountains
Interstate route 80 is a cross country highway, which means it stretches from the west coast to the east coast. It starts from the bay area, and ends in New York city. This is the route that will be taken from Sacramento to South Lake Tahoe. This is a mountainy drive which is filled with beautiful pine trees, and in the winter time, snow! There are many detours in these mountains that can be taken to explore the snow.
Once you exit the freeway, there are mountainy twists and turns in the roads, and as you get further away from the freeway, you will be able to see the lake. There will be small houses and neighborhoods you will pass by on your journey.
Once you reach your destination, there will be a small pizza restaurant that you can eat at. Then, off to your hotel.
Installing Hackintosh Yosemite Zone on virtualbox isn’t as easy as it sounds. First of all, what is Hackintosh Zone? Hackintosh Zone, also called Niresh, is a pirated distro of macOS. These pirated “distros” are slightly modified copies of macOS. These are mostly used to install macOS on non-mac computers without a mac. So, Hackintosh Yosemite Zone is a modified copy of macOS. Since this is a distro, this will not work perfectly on virtualbox. Virtualbox isn’t designed to run distros. The reason we need to use this distro is because Apple deleted the Yosemite install app from the app store, so the only way to get the iso image is from the Hackintosh Zone website.
The first step is to get the iso image. Download the iso file from here: https://allpcworld.com/download-niresh-macosx-osx-Yosemite-10-10-1-iso-free/. This is not from the official Hackintosh Zone website, but this website provides a direct iso download rather than a torrent. This file is 5.1GB, so it will take a while to download.
Once downloaded, create a virtual machine. Assign it a 64 bit processor, and you can choose where you want to store it. You can store it on a USB drive if you’d like. Assign it 4GB of RAM or more. Don’t drag the slider past the green area. Select “create a virtual hard disk now.” Select VDI. Then select dynamically allocated. Choose how many GB you want to assign the virtual machine and then hit create.
Now since the virtual machine is created, we need to go into settings. In settings, go to system and uncheck “enable EFI” near the bottom. Then go to display, and move the video memory slider all the way up to 128 MB. Next, go to storage, select the option at the very bottom that says “empty.” Select the CD icon at the right hand side of the optical drive unit. Select “choose virtual optical disk file.” This is where you will upload the Hackintosh Yosemite Zone iso file to virtualbox. After that hit “ok.”
Before we boot up the virtual machine, we need to trick virtualbox into thinking we have valid hardware for macOS. This is because macOS is only designed to work on mac hardware. So, quit out of Virtualbox and go to Command Prompt. Make sure you run Command Prompt as administrator. After opening Command Prompt, type “cd” and then space. Then go to my computer > local disk > program files > Oracle, then drag the virtualbox folder to command prompt and hit enter. Next, enter this command:VBoxManage modifyvm “vmname(replace this)” –cpuidset 00000001 000306a9 00020800 80000201 178bfbff. Replace VM name with the name of your virtual machine and erase the quotes. Now close Command Prompt.
Now we can boot up the virtual machine. If it shifts over to the boot options, type -v, and hit enter. Now, you will see the setup page. Pick your language and hit continue. Next, go to utilities at the very top of your VM, and go to disk utilities. Erase your disk to macOS extended (journaled). Now quit out of disk utilities in your virtual machine. Select your disk, and hit continue. Now, this will take a little while. Just keep in mind, we are not quite done yet.
After a little while, you will notice the virtual machine installation gets stuck on 2 minutes remaining. This is because Hackintosh Zone can’t restart on virtualbox. So power off the virtual machine, and power on. When you see the 8 second countdown before hackintosh boots up, press F8 to enter the boot options. On older versions of virtualbox, it will enter the boot options automatically. Once in the boot options, select the name of your virtual hard disk you installed macOS on with the arrow keys. Then type -s -v -n and hit enter.
Next type /sbin/fsck -fy . Now hit enter. Then type /sbin/mount -uw / . Now type that same command again. Now type cd /.OSInstallSandboxPath/Scripts/ and hit enter. Now type ls.
The next command is cd Hackintosh.Zone.Po then hit tab. That will continue with Post-Scripts. and the letter ID. Now hit enter. This letter ID is different for everyone, so when you hit tab, it will enter it automatically. Now type ./postInstall then hit enter. All of these wornings and errors you will get after running this command are normal and are nothing to worry about. Now the last command you will type is exit.
That’s it!!! Now wait for the macOS setup menu to load up, and enjoy it on your PC.
Here is a video link to help you better understand this process:
