[joeltje]

This tutorial will take a Dell Mini 10 (not Mini10v!) to Mac OS X 10.6.2. This tutorial assumes that you have access to a Mac with OS X 10.6.x and you are comfortable running commands in a terminal window. You will need an external USB Hard Drive, a USB...

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[jthensley]

When I follow the instructions, everything goes smoothly. However, when it comes time to format during the install, I see no options. The only hard drive I see in the manager is my external. The odd thing is I can see it if I'm trying to load it from a cd using snow's os x universal installer. However, I'd prefer to have the full os x installed, so I can just run the regular updates.

Any ideas on how to over come this issue? I went out and boutght a dell 1012 just for this purpose. Also, by setting the format to guid, will that stull permit me to dual boot with windows 7?

[jthensley]

I am totally stumped. I've tried everything, and spend the last 48 hours on this. First, I have replaced the standard 160 gig hard drive with a 500. I have installed the disc on a 1.5 tb external. It loads fine. However, in the disk utilities, the only hard drive that shows up is the USB. Using other (smaller) install packages on dvd, I see my internal come up just fine. I even created an image of the external boot drive, and that won't even load to boot on my usb dvd player.So I'm stumped. I'm going to attempt to reinstall the dvd on the usb drive, and have it in 2 partitions, and install the os on that partition and then image it back over to the internal using one of the setup dvd's disc utilities that works. Any other ideas? I have no clue why it won't show my internal hard drive on setup....

[jthensley]

AH HA! NOTE: the drive sata option in the bios MUST be turned to ATA! That's was my problem

[jthensley]

Hello all,
I'm a newbie at installing OS X. I purchased a gateway netbook, and had a headache installing ISX, so specifically went to best buy and swapped it for a Dell mini 10, so it would work according to this forum. It has been a frustration for the last week. First, I am able to load os x 10.5.2 and update to 10.5.4 with kalyway. Then I am able to follow the guide on this site to prepare the usb external hard drive as a boot disk. I ran into a problem though that stopped me for 24 hours, where the boot drive would ALWAYS have an error when installing the boot camp package and fail. I did have the retail 6.7 gb disk, but also the snow 10.6 universal 4.7 gb dvd, however, I wanted full functionality, and did not want to use a cut back version. Finally, I would up installing from the 4.7 gb universal dvd, rebooting to the usb hard drive, running the step 2 scripts, and then continuing. Before I upgraded to 10.6.1, I moved all the install packages to my desktop, manually installed the ones I wanted, and then upgraded to 10.6.1. My issue now is when 10.6.2 is preparing the packages, it ALWAYS fails. Is there a work around for this?

Secondly, I have no mousepad, keyboard, sound, or wireless. Which package installs all of those?

[jthensley]

Ok, I'm up to the point to where I am at 10.6.1. However, when ever I update 10.6.2, it gets to Chameleon, but when I select my OS it reboots. I don't understand what I am doing wrong. Is there anyone who can help me? I'm leaving to travel in 3 days, and I've spent a week getting this far lol

[jthensley]

Ok, I got it to work from the install cd. Newbs like me: When you install from the retail cd, at the end you WILL get an error. That does NOT mean start over! When you get the error, it's because it could not load a boot loader into it. Just click reboot and continue with the next step, which loads the bootloader.

I am in the spot where I loaded 10.6.2. At first, the install failed. I deleted all files in the /var/files folder, and rebooted, and then deleted the files again and ran the installer. It ran successfully then, and I ran the script and rebooted. When it got to the bootloader, I select the os, and it begins a reboot loop. I went into a backup I had made, and manually placed the other version of the patched mach_kernel in, but still the boot loop. I even copied the original mach_kernel from 10.6.0, and still the same problem. Even when I use -x or -v at the boot, it reboots before I can see where it is freezing. What did I do wrong?

[tswordt]

Thanks, i success to install OSX on my mini 10

[fatdin]

Hi im new here and im having problem with the phase 2 where you put the code "cd /dw-howto-files/scripts/
sh 02-prepare-mini-hd.sh disk0" i always have the error no such file or directory
please help if anyone know how to put this

[fatdin]

hi guys again i just saw this video in youtube if somehow make help to this problem thanks

YouTube- Snow Leopard on dell mini 10 not 10v

YouTube- Snow Leopard on dell mini 10 not 10v

[fatdin]

Originally Posted by theunnamed

I did exactly what you said in the phase 1, I got an error after the "sudo sh 01-prepare-install.sh diskX" command,

successfully unmounted...
successfully unmounted...
.
.
.
unable to mount volume disk1, please manually mount volume disk1....

Altough I get this error I try to boot it up, but gives me the error:


boot0 : GPT
boot0 : testing
boot0 : testing
boot1 : error

Note: Using Hackintosh (iAtkos v7)

What is the problem ?

i think your using un powerPC mac or leopard OS 10.5 you have to use intel base snow leopard sorry i just figure it out.

---------- Post added at 02:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:09 PM ----------

Originally Posted by fatdin

Hi im new here and im having problem with the phase 2 where you put the code "cd /dw-howto-files/scripts/
sh 02-prepare-mini-hd.sh disk0" i always have the error no such file or directory
please help if anyone know how to put this

I just got it you have to type the first part then the next line..
you just learn from your own mistake!