[Oscar]

This guide will show you how to create a bootable OS X installation USB flash drive using your PC. (For use with Dell Mini 10v, and Dell Mini 9.)

If you are new to Hackintosh, check out this thread before you install:...

Click here to read the entire tutorial

[El cuete 17]

Oscar your the man! The only hard part was making the iso from disk but i ended up using deamon tools lite and worked like a charm! It was more just sitting around and watching the download bar fill up. SO far no issues with 10.6.3 on mini 9 and i cant wait to show it off to my colleagues with macbooks!

[eeeves]

Hello,
Thank you for this guide, but it doesn't work on my mini9, the first key with NBI never work. There is something on the screen but I dont know how to explain (I'm french) but I will try. I have those characters on my screen, one after the other

: / - \ : / - \ and after some rounds _ _ _ _ _ _

Is it normal, maybe I don't wait enough ? I have tried 6 USB drives.

Thanks in advance for your answer. My message could be in the wrong topic and I''m sorry in this case.

[Dave754]

hi,
finaly i found a good guuid how to install macosx on my dell,
but i have one question, you said if we want to update, we should use the nbi but till version, 10.6-4,5,6?
thanks

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by eeeves

Hello,
Thank you for this guide, but it doesn't work on my mini9, the first key with NBI never work. There is something on the screen but I dont know how to explain (I'm french) but I will try. I have those characters on my screen, one after the other

: / - \ : / - \ and after some rounds _ _ _ _ _ _

Is it normal, maybe I don't wait enough ? I have tried 6 USB drives.

Thanks in advance for your answer. My message could be in the wrong topic and I''m sorry in this case.

ok, so the spinning cursor is normal. but you should get to the OS selection screen after that. have you tried inserting both the boot USB, and the OS X install USB? if not, try it out, hopefully that'll work.

Other than that, the only other thing i was thinking is downloading the image file again, but not really sure what's going on..

GL

---------- Post added at 02:36 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:18 AM ----------

Originally Posted by Dave754

hi,
finaly i found a good guuid how to install macosx on my dell,
but i have one question, you said if we want to update, we should use the nbi but till version, 10.6-4,5,6?
thanks

umm.. not so sure what you're asking.. but i'll try to clarify.

most people doing this now will have the 10.6.3 retail disk, and that's specifically what the guide was written for. i know some users have had success with the older 10.6.0 retail disk as well.

depending on where you start, you'll have different upgrade paths possible. i myself have done it in a couple of different ways, just to try the different experiences.

some people have had to update their systems incrementally by downloading the different updates from the apple website (first 10.6.4, then 10.6.5, and then 10.6.6).

however, the easiest way for me was to just use software update-- from the apple menu.

specifically, run NBI special (...351), run software update, reboot-- NBI will run pre-boot after software update (you'll see the NBI icon on the gray apple background), once you reboot, run NBI again.

i've successfully taken that path both from 10.6.0, and 10.6.3.

the problem (and the point i continually try to make on this thread) is that different users with the same hardware will have different experiences trying to upgrade. I HAVE NO CLEAER SOLUTION for this. and I KNOW NO CLEAER SOLUTION, as i don't understand why we should have different experiences with the same hardware, and the same installation.

that is why i always recommend 2 things:

1. make a back up of your working install, that way you can restore from that rather than having to go through the install/ set up process again in the event that the update ends up breaking your OS X install-- which does happen to some people.

2. read through the update threads, including the problems threads so that you get a better idea of the different things you might expect.

good luck to you.

cheers.

[eeeves]

Thank you,
I have already tried with the 2 USB drives. I have already downloaded the file.
But I'm wondering, I have the Bios 05, maybe it doesn't work with this one ?
I will try to change and try again to if there is something different.

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by eeeves

Thank you,
I have already tried with the 2 USB drives. I have already downloaded the file.
But I'm wondering, I have the Bios 05, maybe it doesn't work with this one ?
I will try to change and try again to if there is something different.

as far as i know, the bios version shouldn't make a difference, A4 through A6 are supported by the NBI in this guide.

be careful if you proceed to change it, as it could brick your mini if done improperly.

GL

[eeeves]

Thank you
I have already bricked my mini 9 one time just 1 hour after receiving it...
I installed jolicloud on the SSD which is new (runcore 32GB), and now it's doesn't work but I have this message "unable to patch 64 bit kernel mini 9..."
I have read some topics and I think I'm on the good way even if it doesn't work with SSD formatted in NTFS or FAT. I will find, I'm sure, I hope...

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by eeeves

Thank you
I have already bricked my mini 9 one time just 1 hour after receiving it...
I installed jolicloud on the SSD which is new (runcore 32GB), and now it's doesn't work but I have this message "unable to patch 64 bit kernel mini 9..."
I have read some topics and I think I'm on the good way even if it doesn't work with SSD formatted in NTFS or FAT. I will find, I'm sure, I hope...

The unable to patch 64 bit kernel error is generally a disk formatting issue.

You need to format the drive a few times in order to remove artifacts from older installs.

The way I've dealt with it in the past is to format the entire drive to either fat32 or ntfs, and then run the osx installation and formatting back to Mac OS extended, journaled.

The problem is that chameleon thinks there is an OS on the disk that it can load, but there really isn't. So the partition table has to be wiped out and rebuilt. Normally, formatting the entire drive to a different format (jolicloud probably uses some sort of ext partitioning scheme) will accomplish that.

A live linux USB comes in handy for such a task. My current distro of choice in this case is Parted Magic. No bulk. Just the tools you'll need-- specifically Partition Editor (GParted).

Hope that helps.

Cheers.

[eeeves]

Thank you,
I used the method you posted last year I think with a live linux key and formatted many times with many formats but it doesn't work at the moment. the biggest problem is that Gparted doens't work on my SSD since I have formatted it with "no format". I think that a new os on the SSD will solve the problem but not sure. I will try again.
Is to wipe a partition equal to delete it and to rebuilt equal to format ?

[doremix]

Hey Oscar,

Thank you for this awesome tutorial, and the feedback/comments from the other members are very informative.

I found this thread while looking for a highly-rated, hackintosh compatible netbook. The tutorial was very convincing, I immediately picked up a Mini 10v that was one of my prospects off of Craigslist and followed it through.

Needless to say, it went flawlessly (still took several hours for all the image copying/installing/updating etc), and I'm updated fully now to Snow Leopard 10.6.7. The entire process of getting the Mini, OS, installation, and updates took me only yesterday evening.

I registered on this site solely to give you my thanks.

Cheers,

FYI:
Dell Inspiron Mini 10/1011 (10v) - model PP19S
1.6Ghz Atom N270, 2GB 533Mhz DDR2 RAM, 16GB SSD Samsung HD

Spent $200 CDN, Snow Leopard OS extra