[rjclayton]

Originally Posted by miker1

PLEASE help.

I am trying the "DD" method and it continually fails with an error message at start.

There are no process that I can see that are using the stick [used tak manager] and I can write to the stick. I have also reformatted the dratted thing too!

The memory stick is a 16gb Scandisk Cruzer.

I am using Windows 7 as an admin.

I have included the "dd --list" bit to show that I am not making a ****-up of the number;

\\.\Volume{552d30d7-8410-11df-ae1e-00241dc66385}\
link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume6
removeable media
Mounted on \\.\m:

C:\>dd bs=1M if=C:\macdvd.iso of=\\.\Volume{552d30d7-8410-11df-ae1e-00241dc66385
}
rawwrite dd for windows version 0.5.
Written by John Newbigin <jn@it.swin.edu.au>
This program is covered by the GPL. See copying.txt for details
Error opening output file: 32 The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
C:\>

I just had a similar issue, and was able to resolve it by first using the HP USB Format tool (google it) to format the drive.

In my case, I was getting the message that the key was in use by another process when I was trying to prepare a Win7 Starter install USB key using the Windows 7 USB DVD Download tool and my Win 7 Starter .iso file. I was using an 8GB usb key that I had previously created an NBI bootable key on, and when I tried to format it in Windows, it was only giving me the option to format it to 47.6MB FAT file format. The HP USB Format tool was able to reset the key to the proper size, and then the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool was able to prepare the Win7 Bootable installation key without issue.

I think this might have been the issue that Miker1 was having. Hope this helps someone else.

[Movemint]

Originally Posted by jamesbarnhill

Hello, Rambu, try this (modified, from Mechdrew's, my edits in italics).

Windows
Minimum Requirements

PC with Windows XP, Vista, or 7 and a DVD drive.
Retail Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard Install DVD, any version (What is Retail?)
Small USB Drive 64 MB or greater (HDD, SSD, flash, etc.) for the bootloader.
If using a Dell Mini 10v, an SD card will work great, the internal card reader acts like a USB device. (Sorry Mini 9 owners!)
Large USB Drive for Mac OS X Installer: 16 GB or greater.
I highly recommend the Sandisk Cruzer Micro series drives, just make sure to remove the U3 software first!
8 GB (10.5 Leopard) or 16 GB (10.6 Snow Leopard) HDD/SSD or larger, Intel GMA graphics (950 or 500) and Intel Atom processor.
RAM: 512 MB (10.5 Leopard) or 1 GB (10.6 Snow Leopard) or greater.
Software:
NBI_084RC1 dd Image (unzip this)
Image Writer for Windows
CD/DVD ISO creation utility. I highly recommend InfraRecorder (also available in a handy portable version)

Pre-Install Checklist

Meet Minimum Requirements (above), the specifics DO matter.
Download and unzip/decompress (when applicable) all listed software.
If this is your first time installing, boot into default operating system on your netbook and check that all hardware, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and camera are functional and turned on (if present).
Check your BIOS settings. (more info)
On Windows:

Unzip Image Writer to any folder on your computer. (Make sure to extract all the files in the ZIP file.)
Connect the two USB drives to your PC and insert the Mac OS X Install DVD.
Open your favorite CD/DVD recording program, and make a complete copy of the Mac OS X Install DVD to an ISO file. Save the ISO file to the C: drive as macdvd.iso.
Make absolutely certain that it copies the entire DVD, not just the 510MB or 1GB Windows part. The resulting file should be somewhere close to 7 GB.
Go to the C: drive (viewing as a folder) and select Tools > Folder Options… > View and make sure to uncheck the box that says "Hide extensions for know file types" (when this step is done you can go back and reenable this feature if you do not like the file extensions appearing after file names.) Press OK, then rename the macdvd.iso file to macdvd.img. If you get asked about if you are sure you want to change it, press Yes.
Open My Computer (or just Computer) and write down the drive letters for each respective USB drive.
Open the Image Writer program (it's called Win32DiskImager in the folder you extracted).
The small USB drive is first. Select the correct drive letter under Device, slect the NBI_084RC1 image under Image File, press Write and then Yes. The Progress indicator will help you know when it is finished.
Now select the large USB drive number, and select the macdvd.img file. Press Write and then Yes; this one will take a bit longer so wait for the progress indicator to finish..
When it is done, close Image Writer and remove the USB drives. Eject the DVD and put it away.
*Thanks to dylar for finding Image Writer and posting a link to it, it is a lot easier to use that the previous methods!*

Installation
----------------

Ok, that should work, it worked for me at least.
If not, try redoing the large flash drive. What is the brand of the drive? That can make a big difference.

I have tried this method, I have tried the "extra+boot" method. nothing works. mini 9 and osx retail 10.6.3. Any suggestions!?

[Movemint]

Originally Posted by jamesbarnhill

Hello, Everyone, I just found a way to install from a 10.6.3 DVD WITHOUT touching the Mac OS beforehand; ie: the flash drive can be prepared from Linux, Windows (I think, I haven't tried this, but it should work just as well), and Leopard/Tiger, and will need only to be booted and installed. I'll update this thread tomorrow, I don't have time tonight. ~James

If you want to try it yourself before I write the tutorial (this is for linux, you can use PartedMagic, linked above in the tutorial), download and extract this: ExtraDir+Boot.zip
Copy 'Extra' and 'boot' to a flash drive with all the files from the 'Mac OS X Install DVD' written to it (not 'Boot Camp').
Then, using a terminal, go to the directory you extracted the downloaded file, and type:

sudo dd if=boot0 of=/dev/sdX bs=446 count=1

(X being your OS X Install flash drive. You can use GParted on PartedMagic to find out which drive is which).
Then type:

sudo dd if=boot1h of=/dev/sdX1

(remember to replace the X).

You now should be able to boot from the drive.

I have tried this method. I use Parted Magic on a flash drive, to copy the files from "ExtraDir+Boot.zip" to my OSX flash drive. I copied the Extra folder, boot, boot0 and boot1h, to the root of my OSX flash drive. I ran the dd comands in terminal and they seemed to work.

Once I reboot with the NBI_084RC1 flash drive and OSX drive I have issues.

After the cursor in the top right spins for a bit, I get a black screen that shows:

BOOTMGR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart


Before copying the extra dir and boot, my install would at least boot to the screen that let me select my SSD or my OS X Install DVD flash drive. When I clicked on the OSX, it would start to load and then give me a kernel panic screen.

Now, I just get the black screen and the "BOOTMGR is missing screen" I am super frustrated, I have tried everything. My drives are good, BIOS is setup correctly, my drives have been low level formated before copying over anything to them.


When I go back into PartedMagic and look at the OSX flash drive, it now shows up as Boot Camp! There are no more OSX install files, just the Boot Camp files on the drive. (boot camp folder, dvdsharing folder, autorun.inf, setup.exe, etc.) So it seems that copying the "Extra+boot" files to my OSX flash drive just turned it into a Boot Camp drive!

WTF!!!!


Someone please help!

[Celtic Netbooker]

Quote:
Originally Posted by jamesbarnhill

Windows
Minimum Requirements

PC with Windows XP, Vista, or 7 and a DVD drive.
Retail Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard Install DVD, any version (What is Retail?)
Small USB Drive 64 MB or greater (HDD, SSD, flash, etc.) for the bootloader.
If using a Dell Mini 10v, an SD card will work great, the internal card reader acts like a USB device. (Sorry Mini 9 owners!)
Large USB Drive for Mac OS X Installer: 16 GB or greater.
I highly recommend the Sandisk Cruzer Micro series drives, just make sure to remove the U3 software first!
8 GB (10.5 Leopard) or 16 GB (10.6 Snow Leopard) HDD/SSD or larger, Intel GMA graphics (950 or 500) and Intel Atom processor.
RAM: 512 MB (10.5 Leopard) or 1 GB (10.6 Snow Leopard) or greater.
Software:
NBI_084RC1 dd Image (unzip this)
Image Writer for Windows
CD/DVD ISO creation utility. I highly recommend InfraRecorder (also available in a handy portable version)

Pre-Install Checklist

Meet Minimum Requirements (above), the specifics DO matter.
Download and unzip/decompress (when applicable) all listed software.
If this is your first time installing, boot into default operating system on your netbook and check that all hardware, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and camera are functional and turned on (if present).
Check your BIOS settings. (more info)
On Windows:

Unzip Image Writer to any folder on your computer. (Make sure to extract all the files in the ZIP file.)
Connect the two USB drives to your PC and insert the Mac OS X Install DVD.
Open your favorite CD/DVD recording program, and make a complete copy of the Mac OS X Install DVD to an ISO file. Save the ISO file to the C: drive as macdvd.iso.
Make absolutely certain that it copies the entire DVD, not just the 510MB or 1GB Windows part. The resulting file should be somewhere close to 7 GB.
Go to the C: drive (viewing as a folder) and select Tools > Folder Options… > View and make sure to uncheck the box that says "Hide extensions for know file types" (when this step is done you can go back and reenable this feature if you do not like the file extensions appearing after file names.) Press OK, then rename the macdvd.iso file to macdvd.img. If you get asked about if you are sure you want to change it, press Yes.
Open My Computer (or just Computer) and write down the drive letters for each respective USB drive.
Open the Image Writer program (it's called Win32DiskImager in the folder you extracted).
The small USB drive is first. Select the correct drive letter under Device, slect the NBI_084RC1 image under Image File, press Write and then Yes. The Progress indicator will help you know when it is finished.
Now select the large USB drive number, and select the macdvd.img file. Press Write and then Yes; this one will take a bit longer so wait for the progress indicator to finish..
When it is done, close Image Writer and remove the USB drives. Eject the DVD and put it away.
*Thanks to dylar for finding Image Writer and posting a link to it, it is a lot easier to use that the previous methods!*

Installation
----------------

Ok, that should work, it worked for me at least.
If not, try redoing the large flash drive. What is the brand of the drive? That can make a big difference.

"Quote"

I have tried this method, I have tried the "extra+boot" method. nothing works. mini 9 and osx retail 10.6.3. Any suggestions!?


Hi,

I'm at the same point as you are Movemint I'm going to try reformatting my 64GB Runcore SSD, then try it(installing my retail 10.6.3 with the mecdrew installation method.

Unless anyone has a better suggestion.
I mean I do have a working 10.5.8 on my mini 9
I would like to have the added security SL 10.6 brings, when away from my SOHO, and exposed to the bigbad web...

Edit: I was able to get NBM 8.3 to install on my mini 9.
I will try to see if I can get SL 10.6.3 working now, with NBI 8.4rc1 and/or USB image or retail dvd(or the backup copy I made)

Thanks for any help everyone

Celtic Netbooker

[iPhoneBlogr]

I tried the method posted on the second reply of this thread but I cannot get it to work. It says to copy mach_kernel to the root of the Parted Magic boot drive, so I do that, but then it says to rename the mach_kernel on the 16gb drive and copy over the new mach_kernel from the Parted Magic drive, but my 16gb drive is not explorable after I use DiskImager to copy the OSX img file over(it says, "drive must be formatted" when I click on it). So how can I do this?

TIA

[oddoreven]

Don't know if this helps anyone but...

I just bought my wife a new netbook to replace her dell mini 9 and yesterday on a lark thought I'd try to install OSX on the mini. Stumbled on the forum and used google, this forum and thread for some invaluable info.

I had:

Dell Mini 9 windows 7 installed
16gb Super Talent SSD
256 mb microsd in a usb adapter for the small usb drive
centon 16gb usb for the big drive
NBI_084RC1.img
10.6.3 retail disk and dmg of disk

Worked for me following the mechdrew guide for NBI 2 and nIstallation with a few changes. I used Transmac on a separate windows 7 laptop. First plugged in the USB drives with the dmg and NBI image on the laptop desktop. Started Transmac which listed drives. Right click drive and format. Then right click and format with disk image for both the NBI img to the small drive and then the dmg image to the large drive. Initially I had installation fails with win32diskimager to make the usb drive images. First was the "kernal mismatch" and then "Unable to find driver for theis platform:ACPI" install errors. The first was when I used the NBI083 img and the second before I reflashed the big usb drive with the retail 10.6.3 install dmg with transmac. Each time I would reformat the drives in transmac prior to reflashing the image to the usb drives.

Otherwise I followed the mechdrew guides to the letter. Only other problem was after installing but before rebooting I had a NBI084RC1 image that lacked the zip file for the NBI app so I found a copy of the zip file, formatted another USB drive in Transmac and copied (click on drive then right click the right panel and choose copy) NBI zip to the drive and then plugged it into the dell mini (already in OSX) and ran it from there.

Maybe I just got lucky, but pretty painless install...

[namron]

Originally Posted by oddoreven

Otherwise I followed the mechdrew guides to the letter. Only other problem was after installing but before rebooting I had a NBI084RC1 image that lacked the zip file for the NBI app so I found a copy of the zip file, formatted another USB drive in Transmac and copied (click on drive then right click the right panel and choose copy) NBI zip to the drive and then plugged it into the dell mini (already in OSX) and ran it from there.

Maybe I just got lucky, but pretty painless install...

I have some difficulty understanding the last part. You used the NBI084RC1 image successfully until after installation and before the reboot (during what specific part?), where you got another separate flash drive and reformat it using transmac and copied a zipped, non-image NBI084RC1 onto the drive and plugged it in and ran it(when exactly?).

Can you please give a step by step account?

PS: Did you get the bad NBI084RC1 image from here?

[oddoreven]

Originally Posted by namron

I have some difficulty understanding the last part. You used the NBI084RC1 image successfully until after installation and before the reboot (during what specific part?),

Just followed the installation part of mechdrew's guide here: NetbookInstaller 2: USB Mac Installation via Any Operating System | Guides | OS X | mechdrew

where you got another separate flash drive and reformat it using transmac and copied a zipped, non-image NBI084RC1 onto the drive and plugged it in and ran it(when exactly?).

I just had a third usb drive to transfer the file. Given that I had a working NBI and Install image on the other 2 drives. This was for after the install and on the original reboot via the NBI small drive. After the User account setup and when I was back to the finder desktop. The guide talks about unzipping the NBI file.

PS: Did you get the bad NBI084RC1 image from here?

Yes.

[Movemint]

Originally Posted by jamesbarnhill

EDIT (May 23): If you already have Mac installed and an external dvd drive, or have a Mac with one, then skip down to the second to last step)

REDONE:
Using this method you can install the 10.6.3 retail DVD without a Mac.
What we'll be doing is temporarily installing OS X, then, using our temporary installation, install NetbookBootMaker to a flash drive with the 10.6.3 install disk copied to it.
Let's begin.

What you need:
A retail DVD of Snow Leopard 10.6.3.
A 16GB/8GB flash drive, preferably Sandisk; I haven't tried any others, so I can't guarantee that they will work.
Two small flash drives ~265 MB or more. (One will work too, though you'll have to overwrite it after running linux).
An NBI 0.8.4RC1 image.
The darwin kernel 10.2.0.
PartedMagic on one of the small USB's (Instructions)


First create the PartedMagic boot disk (use the instructions linked above.

(If you don't have two small USB devices, you can wait on the NBI and just write the Snow Leopard image first.)

Now you'll need to write the Install DVD to your large USB drive, and the NBI image to your small USB drive. Use DD, or ImageWrite.

Image write (modified version of Mechdrew's):
ImageWriter

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1. Unzip Image Writer to any folder on your computer. (Make sure to extract all the files in the ZIP file.)

2. Connect the large and small USB drives to your PC and insert the Mac OS X Install DVD.

3. Open your favorite CD/DVD recording program, and make a complete copy of the Mac OS X Install DVD to an ISO file. Save the ISO file to the C: drive as macdvd.iso.
Make absolutely certain that it copies the entire DVD, not just the 510MB or 1GB Windows part. The resulting file should be somewhere close to 7 GB.

4. Go to the C: drive (viewing as a folder) and select Tools > Folder Options… > View and make sure to uncheck the box that says "Hide extensions for know file types" (when this step is done you can go back and reenable this feature if you do not like the file extensions appearing after file names.) Press OK, then rename the macdvd.iso file to macdvd.img. If you get asked about if you are sure you want to change it, press Yes.

5. Open My Computer (or just Computer) and write down the drive letters for each respective USB drive.

6. Open the Image Writer program (it's called Win32DiskImager in the folder you extracted).

7. The small USB drive is first. Select the correct drive letter under Device, select the NBI 0.8.4 RC1 image under Image File, press Write and then Yes. The Progress indicator will help you know when it is finished.

8. Now select the large USB drive number, and select the macdvd.img file. Press Write and then Yes; this one will take a bit longer so wait for the progress indicator to finish..

9. When it is done, close Image Writer and remove the USB drives. Eject the DVD and put it away.
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DD:
––––––––––––––––†“–––––
Software needed for this alternate guide: DD for Windows
1. Copy the dd.exe file (it's in the zip file you downloaded) and the NBI 0.8.4 RC1 image file to the C:\ drive (not a subdirectory/folder.)

2. Connect the two USB drives to your PC and insert the Mac OS X Install DVD.

3. Open My Computer (or just Computer) and write down the drive letters for each respective USB drive.

4. Open your favorite CD/DVD recording program, and make a complete copy of the Mac OS X Install DVD to an ISO file. Save the ISO file to the C: drive as macdvd.iso.
Make absolutely certain that it copies the entire DVD, not just the 510 MB Windows part. The resulting file should be somewhere close to 7 GB.

5. Open a Command Prompt. You can either use the Run command or the Search box on Vista/7 and type "cmd". (On Vista/7 you will need to right click the search result and press "Run as Administrator". This may or may not bring up a confirmation box.)

6. Type "cd.." and press Enter until only C:\> appears.

7. Once navigated to the C:\ folder, type "dd --list". This will bring up a long list of drive
information.

8. Starting at the top of the list (you'll probably need to scroll up) find the section that is associated with your USB drives. It will look similar to:
\\.\Volume{96650542-b9ef-11de-8e5d-0022e88c179a}\
link to \\?\Device\HardDiskVolume3
fixed media
mounted on \\.\g:
You want the one with the same drive letter at the end as the drive you are trying to image (your numbers will be different, obviously.)

9. Type "dd bs=1M if=C:\NBI_084RC1.img of=\\.\Volume{number-of-the-small-drive}". (In my example this would be "dd bs=1M if=C:\NBI_084RC1.img of=\\.\Volume{96650542-b9ef-11de-8e5d-0022e88c179a}".)
Make sure you have the correct volume number, I'd hate for you to mess up your hard drive.

10. Wait until the command prompt is accessible again, it can take a few minutes. Now type "dd bs=1M if=C:\macdvd.iso of=\\.\Volume{number-of-the-large-drive}"
This can take a while, maybe an hour or more. Wait until the command prompt is accessible again.

11. When finished, close the Command Prompt and safely remove the USB drives.
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After you are finished writing, you'll need to copy the 10.2.0 kernel (make sure you unzip the downloaded file first; you should have a file called mach_kernel) to the root of your PartedMagic usb; then boot into it (on your netbook, or any other computer) with the 16GB drive inserted.

Once you have booted, browse to the 16GB usb, and rename mach_kernel to mach_kernel_1063, then paste the one from your PartedMagic disk.
You can shutdown or boot back into your normal operating system. (If you haven't written the NBI image yet, then do that, following the instructions above, and overwrite your PartedMagic usb).

Now, on your netbook, powered down, insert the small, NBI usb, then the large, Snow Leopard install usb. Boot into the small usb (hold down 0 in your BIOS, on the Mini 9, and F12 on the Mini 10, then select 'USB Devices'). You should see a gray screen, select 'Mac OS X Install DVD'.

It should now boot. Follow the steps and install OS X (use disk utility and format your SSD as HFS+ and GUID, of course, this will over-write EVERYTHING on it).

After it installs (do NOT restart yet) (if it fails WITHOUT the 'Could not copy the necessary support files' error, you should be alright still), you'll need to copy the 10.2.0 kernel to the root of your SSD, using the terminal (Utilities>>Terminal):

cd /Volumes

ls (find your SSD)

cd <your SSD>

rm mach_kernel

cp /mach_kernel mach_kernel

If there aren't any failures, then shutdown, and boot back into the NBI USB. Select your internal SSD.


(Skip to this if you already have Mac [10.5+], but you'll need to [preferably] use Disk Utility to restore your DVD to the large USB [See steps 1-3 on this page. If you don't have an external DVD drive or a Mac with a DVD drive, then you can use a PC to copy the DVD [See the copying instructions above])


Now, after you are in OS X, BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE, download NBM 084RC1 here
Now you'll need to browse to your 16GB USB in the finder. Now rename mach_kernel_1063 to mach_kernel, it will ask if you want to replace the other, select yes (if it asks for a password, enter it).
Now run the file you downloaded, select 'Mac OS X Install DVD', then select install. Enter your password, then wait.
After it is finished, you can reboot into the large USB (with the small NBI USB removed), and you can follow the install instructions as before, only erase your SSD partition (using Disk Utility), then install.
When it is finished, reboot, and let it go all the way to the new OS X installation.
At your Finder desktop (after you have gone through the setup process), download NBI ).8.4RC1 (here) and run it. There you go, everything should work: rebooting, etc. Look at my signature for the internal mic, and bluetooth toggling fixes.

I hope that will help everyone, though sorry it's such a long process.

~James

PLEASE HELP!


I Have tried the above, quoted method and the "Extra + boot" method. neither work.


Some system info:

I have a Mini 9, with A05 BIOS, with a 32GB RunCore SSD. Legacy Support, Enabled... Wake Suport, disabled.

I have tried 2 different small drives for my NBI_084RC1.img

My Large drive with my OSX image is a Sandisk Cruzer 16GB

I ripped my Retail 10.6.3 Snow Leopard disk with Transmac.

I am using Image Writer to put all the images on my drive.



I have wiped the SSD, due to a prior install that used the old DellEFI method dual booting with an expired Windows 7 beta, so I am starting fresh. Partition Magic used to format the SSD. I have tried with no partitions on SSD and with an NTFS partion on the SSD. Pulled the SSD out of my Mini, hooked up to Windows 7 machine, via USB and even low level formatted the SSD.


I get Kernel panics, no matter what method of installing Snow Leopard I try.

I have tried booting using verbose mode and get a scrolled screen, before the same screen as the kernel panic screen finally loads and the end of the scrolling.

I have tried booting holding shift keys down and I see the same results.

I have reformatted all the flash drives and recopied the images. Used HP USB Storage tool to format drives.



Please I have tried everything. I can not get even to the Apple install screen. I have read through many threads that suggest similar small tweaks and point to many different images or modified kernels. I want to get a step by step that will work.

The only computers I have access to are the Mini 9 and my Windows 7 machine. I have no external DVD drive.


What do I need to do to make this work????


--Attached are pictures of the screen after booting in verbose mode--

[jamesbarnhill]

Hello, Movemint.
While the method you are using will generally work, a more stable method would be to follow this method only replacing his NBI_083F with NBI_084RC1. This method is a lot less hackish, and more of an install. Hope that helps, ~James