Hackintosh'd My Dell Mini 10v

[iamwiz82]

It's dual booting Windows 7 and 10.5.6, all for $200 shipped.

As of now, Windows 7 is 100% functional and OSX is 90% functional. The sound quality is poor in OSX and sleep is acting funky (Legacy USB issue, I think).

The .7 upgrade is causing a problem, though, after applying the new custom dsdt.aml OSX blows up and causes a kernel panic regarding ACPI .

 

[Pliablemoose]

Very cool. I wish Apple would suck it up and release a cheap ass netbook... But Nooooooo, we're going to make a tablet.....

<---Owns a shitload of Apple stock

 

[Kaido]

Yeah baby! Welcome the club, wiz!

 

[iamwiz82]

This evening I'm going to clone it and then start working on getting 10.5.8 installed. It takes about 4-5 hours to get everything installed and up to the point I am at now, and it's the third time I have had to do so. Finally I get smart and image it first

The awesome part about the Dell Mini line is that I only have to boot off of a Syslinux flash drive, then point the boot to the vanilla OSX DVD (on SATA hdd via USB enclosure) and it install, then works pretty well. I have used DellEFI and NetBookInstaller and they just clean up the oddball drivers.

 

[bigrash]

I have 10.5.6 installed on my dell mini 9 and it's sweet! Haven't upgraded to 10.6 yet.

Don't you just have to remove and re-install the dsdt file in safe mode to update from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7?

I haven't gotten a chance to look into dual booting yet. How did you go about doing that?

 

[iamwiz82]

I did not have to do anything to the dsdt.aml, technically. OSX booted fine without any putzing around. It blew up when I ran NBI to update it. DellEFI worked fine for me, though.

Dualbooting involved me using the Windows 7 disc to partition the EFI partition, then OSX, then Windows. Install Windows 7 on partition 3, then OSX on partition 2. Boot into Windows and use EasyBCD 2.0 to create the boot menu.

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I did not have to do anything to the dsdt.aml, technically. OSX booted fine without any putzing around. It blew up when I ran NBI to update it. DellEFI worked fine for me, though.

Dualbooting involved me using the Windows 7 disc to partition the EFI partition, then OSX, then Windows. Install Windows 7 on partition 3, then OSX on partition 2. Boot into Windows and use EasyBCD 2.0 to create the boot menu.

I find the easiest way for me to dual boot on 1 hard drive. Is to install windows first, partition hfs drive in windows. Then install mac, with chameleon and use that boot menu.

I have had issues with doing mac first, but its doable as wiz said.

 

[TuxDave]

I got my Dell Mini 10v booting just OSX Snow Leopard. The information is hard to find that I eventually just had to go to my cousin's place to use his mac mini to prepare my USB drive. I did go the semi-legit way (aka buying the Snow Leopard DVD retail) for this project.

Oh.. a big question for all of you with Hackintosh. When the keyboard shortcut asks me to push that special apple key, I have no idea what to push. The windows key apparantly isn't a substitute for it so I'm missing out on a lot of keyboard shortcuts.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: TuxDave
I got my Dell Mini 10v booting just OSX Snow Leopard. The information is hard to find that I eventually just had to go to my cousin's place to use his mac mini to prepare my USB drive. I did go the semi-legit way (aka buying the Snow Leopard DVD retail) for this project.

Oh.. a big question for all of you with Hackintosh. When the keyboard shortcut asks me to push that special apple key, I have no idea what to push. The windows key apparantly isn't a substitute for it so I'm missing out on a lot of keyboard shortcuts.

It's usually the Windows key, but some keyboards switch it with the Alt key. Spotlight should open in the upper right-hand corner when you push Command + Spacebar, so that's how you'll know.

 

[MuffD]

I did the same thing for my daughter. I bought a 10v and forgot to install some files after updating to 10.5.8. After I did that though it's been running like a champ. I wish I had it with 2gb of ram but for an 8 year old, I think this is cool. My 6 year old now wants one too. I'm not going to bother with Snow Leopard yet since all they do is play flash games.