I’d forgotten how much Vista sucks… I waited through over 45 minutes of “Preparing you computer” and “Installing software” and “Measuring your computer’s performance” for this?
Well, I suppose there is the spiffy sidebar and flip 3D……
Or, to be more accurate, I forgot how much garbage OEMs put on your brand new PC. *cough* HPToshibaDell.
OOH COOL! McAfee, Norton, Windows Live OneCare AND ZoneAlarm! Now my computer is quadruple-protected!
But wait, there’s more you say? A copy of Microsoft Works AND a FREE trial of Microsoft Office? and AOL, Yahoo! and Google toolbars, each with pop-up blocking? AWESOME!
-_-
Early this morning I was at Tim Hortons. I had the opportunity to see this:
Tim Hortons uses LINUX!
tim hortons uses linux on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
Update 4: Please see updated post.
Update 3: I recently tried to format and re-install snow leopard, and now I can’t get the laptop to boot from the Chameleon cdboot. I’m working on it and will post when I find a solution.
Update 2: The Broadcom 440x kext found here makes the card detected in Snow Leopard, however, it works intermittently. Most of the time you will fail to get an IP.
Update: You can run updates from Software Update, however remember to DELETE SleepEnabler.kext before upgrading to 10.6.2 (check /Extra and /System/Library/Extensions). Otherwise you’ll get a nice kernel panic.
Just installed Mac OS X 10.6 on my trusty old Dell Inspiron 640m.
Intel Core Duo T2050 processor @ 1.60GHz
2GB DDR2 SDRAM
Intel GMA950 integrated graphics (1440×900)
Intel 3945ABG Dell TrueMobile 1505 802.11n Mini PCIE WLAN card
It was quite easy; actually easier than Leopard.
I basically followed the steps found here:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182227
(ISO mirrored here: Inspiron6400.iso)
Make sure to always boot with cpus=1
Then, I installed a few additional kexts for the onboard Broadcom 440x (AppleBCM440XEthernet.kext), battery status display VoodooBattery.kext, and HD Audio VoodooHDA.kext.
To fix the cpus=1 problem, install VoodooTSCSync.kext
I have only one problem with this setup, the laptop does NOT wake from sleep.
Windows XP offers a handy feature that allows you to take files stored on a network drive and use them even without a network connection. The files are then re-synced back to the server the next time network access is detected. Unfortunately, the service, while a fantastic idea, is not very stable in practice. In case of errors, there IS a procedure to recover files from the local cache. It involves using version 1.1 of Microsoft’s csccmd (not available directly on MS website.)
csccmdv1.1.zip
(Note to Microsoft: if it isn’t ok for me to host this file, then let me know and I’ll remove it.)
TSC sync XNU patch – InsanelyMac Forum.
Fix to avoid needing cpus=1 at boot for Core Duo machines (typically Dell)
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182227&hl=
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=182884
Update: For temperature/fan issues, this post over at HP Mini forums looks promising.
Yes, it’s another hackintosh post, but what can I say, it’s this stuff that’s hardest to remember and useful to lots of people. Emma, if you’re reading this, this was done for you. 🙂 Let me just say that this is purely for educational purposes, and yes, I do own a real mac and both Leopard and Snow Leopard.
- Obtain the excellent iATKOS 7 DVD ISO. Burn to disc.
- Boot from the install DVD. (You may have to use an external VGA monitor to prevent the “Blue screen”) Use the Disk Utility to format the drive as a single large HFSJ partition, using the MBR partition table. (I use a partition label without spaces because of some past experiences.)
- Install; select appropriate drivers. Don’t reboot at the end of the installation.
- None of the audio or video drivers work, so uncheck all of them.
- VoodooPS2 with trackpad plugin works great
- Intel ICH IDE driver?
- Cardbus driver causes kernel panic, so UNCHECK that one
- Voodoo kernel 9.5.0 is necessary, as this machine only has SSE2 (Intel Pentium M 715)
- I selected the Broadcom wifi driver for a Dell 1370 MiniPCI card; my laptop originally came with an Atheros AR5005G. (The AR5005G works with Leopard, however last I checked it needed to use the old kext from Tiger, which breaks WPA support*)
- Now comes the fun part. Download the GMA900 Leopard kext package. (source) Extract it and put the kexts on a FAT32 or FAT formatted USB drive.
- Plug the USB drive into the Aspire. Reboot; at the chameleon boot menu press any key to bring up the boot flags prompt (at the bottom of the screen), then type -x -s -v to enter single-user, safe mode with verbose boot.
- You will see a lot of scrolling text. Finally it will drop to a shell prompt with instructions about fsck and mount -uw. Do as it says.
- cd to /Volumes. mkdir usbdrive.
- mount -t msdos /dev/diskXsY /Volumes/usbdrive, where X and Y are the disk and partition numbers of your usb drive, respectively. This may require some trial-and-error, but getting the wrong one won’t harm your system in any way, it will just display an error message.
- Once you have the drive mounted, cp -Rv /Volumes/usbdrive/*.kext /System/Library/Extensions. Then cd to /System/Library/Extensions and make sure the two new kexts are owned by root:wheel.
- reboot. The system should now boot with QE+CI!
- Once you’re at the desktop, you should now install the AC97Audio.pkg and (optionally) the fixed version of VoodooPS2Controller.kext that gives you back the ~ key. I also recommend the VoodooPower.kext from superhai to allow SpeedStep to work.
And that should be it! Note that I am writing this guide from memory, so I may have missed a few steps. DO NOT upgrade to Safari 4 on this machine, it causes kernel panics. Also, I have NOT tested the 10.5.8 update, so YMMV there.
*Atheros 5005G info: Install this IO80211Family.kext. Then, the Atheros card should be detected as AirPort. Unfortunately, attempting to connect to WPA-protected networks will result in a “connection failed” message. To get around this, you can either click the “assist me” button in network preferences and follow the prompts, or use the following command in Terminal (source):
sudo networksetup -setairportnetwork "your wifi name" "password"
Installed using iATKOS 7.
Patched files necessary:
Graphics (DSDT fix): ITX-220_DSDT_GMA950
Audio (VoodooHDA Volume fix): VoodooMOD
Mise Ă jour:  Ce clavier fonctionne toujours sous OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Il se trouve dans la catĂ©gorie “Autres” des mĂ©thodes de saisie.
Update:Â This keyboard layout still works with OS X 10.9 Mavericks. You can find it in the “Others” category of keyboard layouts. I have also put it on github.
This used to be on my googlepages page, but apparently that’s going to be shut down, so here it is now.
clavier-cf.zip
Download from Github (updated version with Ă‚ and Ă” thanks to joallard)
Download, unzip and stick the two files (cf.icns and cf.keylayout) in /Library/Keyboard Layouts. Then go to System Prefs, International (Language and Text for Snow users), Input Menu and check off “Canadien Francais 0.9”. (You may need to log out and back in before the new layout appears in System Preferences).
I did NOT make this keyboard layout, I found it somewhere on the web but the original site is now gone.
Voici le clavier Canadien francais pour Mac OS X. C’est l’Ă©quivalent du clavier “Canadian French” ou Français (Canada) sous Windows. Pour installer, tĂ©lĂ©charger le fichier .zip depuis github, dĂ©compresser, et copier les deux fichiers (cf.icns et cf.keylayout) dans le dossier /Library/Keyboard Layouts.
Here is the actual keyboard layout screenshot:
Now that Windows 7 RTM has been distributed to Microsoft Software Assurance customers, I have legally installed it on my work desktop. I used to run Windows Server 2003, so the Windows 7 eye candy and more desktop-oriented features are a nice change. However one thing I missed is the ability to have multiple RDP connections to my PC. Fortunately, ShadyMG over at Missing Remote has got it all figured out:
http://www.missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3692&Itemid=232
The linked file is mirrored here.
Update: It seems there is a more refined version of this patch, which also works to enable RDP server on the Home Premium version. http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/t/79427.aspx
File mirrored here: Concurrent_RDP_Win7_RTM_patcher_v1.1
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