oh i do too, its an amazing disc! can basically do anything you throw at it! love it!
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oh i do too, its an amazing disc! can basically do anything you throw at it! love it!
I just did it.
Refurbished white dell mini 9. With 16 gb ssd and 2 gb of ram. I was contemplating on doing this for several weeks. I'm not a true computer geek. I was worried I would not be able to pull the hack off. And be stuck with a windblow's netbook
It was actually very easy with help from http://www.mydellmini.com/
Also as of today the dell mini 9 has just been discontinued by dell
As far as I know this is still the only netbook that is truly 100% os x compatible.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/12/17/osx-netbook-compatib.html
Sorry Apple. But I just love how small this netbook is.
Refurbished white dell mini 9. With 16 gb ssd and 2 gb of ram. I was contemplating on doing this for several weeks. I'm not a true computer geek. I was worried I would not be able to pull the hack off. And be stuck with a windblow's netbook
It was actually very easy with help from http://www.mydellmini.com/
Also as of today the dell mini 9 has just been discontinued by dell
As far as I know this is still the only netbook that is truly 100% os x compatible.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/12/17/osx-netbook-compatib.html
Sorry Apple. But I just love how small this netbook is.
Can I install OS X to my PC computer?
Specs are:
Acer Aspire 5100
AMD Turion MK-38 (2.2GHz)
ATI Radeon X1300
I already have an iMac but now it's summer here in Finland and I travel quite a lot and it would be nice to have OS X in my PC because I hate Windows.
If it's possible, which version should I install?
Specs are:
Acer Aspire 5100
AMD Turion MK-38 (2.2GHz)
ATI Radeon X1300
I already have an iMac but now it's summer here in Finland and I travel quite a lot and it would be nice to have OS X in my PC because I hate Windows.
If it's possible, which version should I install?
it seems quite possible, i know there have been tons of problems with the X3100, (well there were when i was researching about a year ago) - its highly possible that they have been fixed. give IM a look im sure there will be plenty of input. i use iATKOS, seems pretty sturdy.
it seems quite possible, i know there have been tons of problems with the X3100, (well there were when i was researching about a year ago) - its highly possible that they have been fixed. give IM a look im sure there will be plenty of input. i use iATKOS, seems pretty sturdy.
Good, thank you. I'm already downloading 10.5.5 through iDeneb (it has some extra drivers and fixes some compatibility errors (?)). I'll tell you how it works when I've installed (at least tried) it.
I'm facing a big trouble right now. It just hangs up in logo and the circle is running. There's also a weird sign in the screen, it looks like a stop sign, so I'm thinking that is there a problem with my disk or something?
Hit the F8 key when the machine first starts before loading OS X to get to the screen where it says hit any key to get to the Darwin boot loader once there type in then hit enter key -v to get a verbose (text) boot now you will be able to see where it is failing and can tells us. Never installed on an AMD machine but I believe the idea is that you need the Voodoo kernel to be used so if you did not select that as an option when installing then you may need to do a re-install to get it working.
I haven't installed OS X yet. When I put my DVD disk on my PC and boot from it, it loads Darwin OK but when the white Apple screen appears with Apple logo and running circle, nothing happens. The circle just keeps running. And I tried that F8 think too but nothing happened.
You didnt do it right if you are seeing the gray screen. Booting with "-v" you shouldnt see the gray screen at all.
is this the error your seeing?.
give this thread a read and see if it can help you at all
apparently the problem is quite common
yes! you can! its a tad harder then using the "pre-cracked" versions though..
I built a hackintosh once upon a time because I discovered my machine had just the right parts. Intel Core 2 Duo 6400, 2GB RAM, Some Gigabyte motherboard with the 945G chipset. I tried several distributions of OSX86 until Kalyway just worked and then updates broke it. I wish I'd kept it because I couldn't predict that two years after I made it I would be learning programming and wanting to develop for the iPhone. Unfortunately my G4 iBook won't suffice.
I just did it.
Refurbished white dell mini 9. With 16 gb ssd and 2 gb of ram. I was contemplating on doing this for several weeks. I'm not a true computer geek. I was worried I would not be able to pull the hack off. And be stuck with a windblow's netbook
It was actually very easy with help from http://www.mydellmini.com/
Also as of today the dell mini 9 has just been discontinued by dell
As far as I know this is still the only netbook that is truly 100% os x compatible.
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/12/17/osx-netbook-compatib.html
Sorry Apple. But I just love how small this netbook is.
Congratulations!
I'm so close to pulling the trigger myself. If I do, there are still some options for OSX on a Mini.
There may be some Mini 9's on the Outlet, perchance. On the Business side, there is the Vostro A90 (go go all black Mini 9!), and most recently, the Mini 10v can be Hackintoshed as well.
Cheers!
well there is nothing stopping you!! the installation has become even easier then what it used to be, download the newest version and give it a crack - you cant loose really..
the 4870 is really only a year old if that (release date was around july??) - so anything older then that isnt going to work with them unless u add in new kexts for them. i dont see nay problem with the nvidia chipset, nor the soundcard - although its often quite hard to get sound to work..
I just checked insanely mac and there is a thread about getting it to work. However I was hoping to get an install working with the retail dvd so updates will work. EFI, boot123 and Chameleon all seem confusing to me. Do I need just one of those or a combination of them? Do I need to make my own special boot123 disk with drivers and so on? And everything seems to be in ppkg format so do I need to do the preparation on my iBook?
Or I could just download the latest distros I suppose...
Or I could just download the latest distros I suppose...
Not at all if you don't rely on the on-board when I first installed I already had a cheap POS firewire card that never worked reliably under Linux but worked great in OS X so I bought a FireWave solved that problem quick enough. Now you can take and use any old Audigy card you have laying around like I do with the kX driver if it has a firewire port on it that should work as well or you can get a Cheap iMic which I use (refurbished $14.95) for my headphones out, audio out too if I want, as the 5.1 on my Audigy blocks/uses that port.
You want retail so get yourself a cheap SATA USB enclosure just connect the part the has the cabling put the hard drive on its anti-static bag and run the installer from your iBook selecting the external as the destination for the install. Once completed the install the boot loader and whatever .kext you need modified for your install plus the dsmos.kext so it will boot put the external in your machine you want it in and start it up hopefully you did everything you needed correctly and you have fully working machine.
Should just keep hitting it before it starts to access the DVD to see if that works.
thats what a lot of people are doing but, relying on the on-board (i do), i had some troubles with it from the start but eventually got them sorted.
there are many more.. hmm... uninformed users starting to experiment with hackintoshes - many just think that it will all work, and i doubt a large percentage of them would be using a PCI soundcard.
but you're right i guess in some respect, it would be much better to use a PCI card.
When I write -v there and press enter it loads Darwin again so that I have to press enter or F8 to enter start up settings
is this the error your seeing?.
Yes, thank you.
give this thread a read and see if it can help you at all
So basically I just keep trying to get it work? It just doesn't go further
I tried that "-V CPUS=1" thing (thanks DoFoT9) and got it to language select window but then, of course my mouse or whole system froze. Nothing worked so I had to restart. And now I can't get it go through the grey screen again. I got that "-v" thing to work and it says "waiting for root device" (it's a known problem, googled that)
A question for you guys, is Hackintosh worth it? I don't even use that laptop very much, only at summer when I travel quite a lot and want to use it outside. And will it be much quicker than Windows is? OS X is fast as Usain Bolt but I'm afraid that it isn't on my PC and am I working for nothing
A question for you guys, is Hackintosh worth it? I don't even use that laptop very much, only at summer when I travel quite a lot and want to use it outside. And will it be much quicker than Windows is? OS X is fast as Usain Bolt but I'm afraid that it isn't on my PC and am I working for nothing
sorry, i dont have any solution to this situation, never had the problem
to me, its 100% worth it! i payed Aus $500 for the same/tad better specs as my top spec imac which cost ~$3500Aus, its very stable (apart from when i overclock). to me it was a very good investment, i haven't tried updating (stil on 10.5.5 i think) but there are methods to update without breaking the OS (by using new distro's i think and whatnot - it was a few pages back i cant remember haha). but anyway, imo its really worth it as a cheap solution to getting a mac, many new users might even purchase a real mac to get the true experience (that is, a gorguz OS AND a gorgouz case eheh).
sorry, i dont have any solution to this situation, never had the problem
to me, its 100% worth it! i payed Aus $500 for the same/tad better specs as my top spec imac which cost ~$3500Aus, its very stable (apart from when i overclock). to me it was a very good investment, i haven't tried updating (stil on 10.5.5 i think) but there are methods to update without breaking the OS (by using new distro's i think and whatnot - it was a few pages back i cant remember haha). but anyway, imo its really worth it as a cheap solution to getting a mac, many new users might even purchase a real mac to get the true experience (that is, a gorguz OS AND a gorgouz case eheh).
Okay, thanks. I already have an iMac which is my primary computer and I use my laptop mainly as a torrent downloader and my parents use it for net surfing sometimes, so because its usage is so tiny, I would not like to spend 2 weeks of my summer holiday searching the solutions and downloading different OS Xs.
I'm planning to buy MacBook (Air?) in autumn when I got pay from my summer job and maybe a custom Hackintosh gaming PC on mid 2010.
I think I give up. It already runs W7 so I guess I'll stick with it.