How to Install OS X Mountain Lion on your PC with iAtkos

I'll show you how to install Mountain Lion on your PC with the iAtkos distro.

Requirements :

An existing Mac/Windows computer/Hackintosh
A Hackintosh-compatible computer with 10 GB+ of free space
iAtkos ML2 (Free)
A dual-layer DVD, Bluray disc, or empty USB drive (8 GB or larger)
TransMac
Carbon Copy Cloner
Multibeast (Free)

Steps :

Create your iAtkos USB drive (Mac)
Plug your USB drive into Mac OS X, and open Disk Utility (located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder). Select the USB drive in the sidebar of Disk Utility, go to the "Partition" tab of Disk Utility, and create a new partition layout with 1 partition. Set the format to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".
Click the "Options" button before applying your new partition layout. It should be set to "Master Boot Record" by default. Keep it that way. Then click "Apply".

Open your downloaded iAtkos disk image by double-clicking it; this file will probably be named "iATKOS_ML2.dmg". Then, start Carbon Copy Cloner, and set the iAtkos disk image as the "Source" and your USB drive as the "Destination". In the screenshot below, my USB drive is named "Whatever".
This will take 15 minutes to an hour
Open Multibeast and select the USB drive as the installation location. Select Drivers & Bootloaders -> Bootloaders -> Chimera, and run the Multibeast installer.

Create your iAtkos DVD (Windows)
Insert your dual-layer DVD into Windows, and open TransMac. Click File -> Open Disk Image. In the Windows Explorer window that pops up, select your downloaded iAtkos disk image; this file will probably be named "iATKOS_ML2.dmg".
Your iAtkos disk image will pop up in the left sidebar of the TransMac window. Right-click on it, and click "Burn to CD/DVD". Then burn the disk image.
Set up the parts of your PC
If your Hackintosh already has Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion installed, the only thing you'll need to change in the BIOS is the "Boot Device", so that the iAtkos installer has highest priority.

If your Hackintosh doesn't have Snow Leopard or Lion installed yet, you have to change a few extra BIOS settings. Before starting, reset all of your BIOS settings to their factory defaults.
Boot Device - If you're using an iAtkos USB drive, change the boot device of your computer so that "USB-HDD" is first. If you're using an iAtkos DVD, change "CDROM" to first. You need to do this for iAtkos to work. After you finish installing Mac OS X, you should change this setting back to default, so that "Hard Disk" is the first boot device (this optional, but it will speed up your boot times).
HPET - Change this to 64-bit.
SATA Control Mode (your BIOS might call this a different name) - This will probably already be set to "SATA", "IDE", or "RAID". Change it to "AHCI". Mac OS X only works with AHCI.
Plug your iAtkos USB drive into a USB 2.0 port on your computer (USB 3.0 doesn't always work), or insert your iAtkos DVD into your DVD drive. Restart your computer. If things go well, your computer will boot into iAtkos instead of booting from your normal hard disk.
At the iAtkos menu, select the name of your iAtkos USB drive/DVD
Install Mountain Lion
Start up Disk Utility, which is located under the Utilities menu in the top bar.
On the installation page for Mac OSX, the hard disk/disk partition should now be showing up. Select it, and then click the "Customize" button on the bottom left. This is where using a distro becomes really useful: iAtkos allows you to install extra Hackintosh drivers and kexts, straight from the OS X Mountain Lion installer. The "Customize" page essentially does the same thing as Multibeast, though the layout (and most of the names of the options) are different.
After you're done with the "Customize" page, install Mountain Lion
Once the installation finishes, remove your iAtkos USB drive/DVD, and restart. At the boot screen, you'll see an icon for the hard drive where you installed Mountain Lion. Select it (use the arrow keys on your computer) and press "Enter". Mountain Lion will boot.
Multibeast is a collection of kext files that you'll need to install for your Hackintoshes to have sound, internet, a high resolution screen, and more.

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