Samsung NC10 UK revision, Updates / Installation / Modding etc, stuff will be here Options

[Dogbreath]

Hi, interesting work, cant seem to download everything though...demiload or whatever requires username and p/w and registration is closed.

Just wondering, has anyone got idened v1.4 10.5.6 working on the NC10, i'm downloading now....i'm after the easy option.

[kkelis]

I don't see any OSX boot partitions, I assume the extended journaled MAC format isn't available, see the howto pdf from Mysticus C

Start from scratch, delete Windows 7 it's all in the pdf

are you talking to me mate? There are no OSX partitions, as I explained in my posts the installer doesn't finish starting up, so I can't get to the disk utility. I am following the pdf.

[ Mysticus C*]

are you talking to me mate? There are no OSX partitions, as I explained in my posts the installer doesn't finish starting up, so I can't get to the disk utility. I am following the pdf.

i would suggest you to remove everything apart from recovery and xp partition...

and start reading the partitioning again... including extended partitions... because current situation indicates that stg wrong with finding acceptable form of writable partition for OSX... either caused by your win 7 partitioning, and incorrect formatting/partitioning after removing win7!!!

and size the partitions as mentioned in the guide as 35000 mb rather than 24000 as i see...

also make sure u delete any aditional partition(s) win7 has created while installing! (win7 makes 200mb additional pri partition on some systems!!! which would mess up the whole stuff...)

[anfan7]

@Mysticus

Hey,Can you suggest minimum possible partitions 4 nc10(160 GB)?{I got confused by 5-6 in the guide}
I've got an external optical drive
And can I do all the partitioning while XP installation ?

[ Mysticus C*]

@Mysticus

Hey,Can you suggest minimum possible partitions 4 nc10(160 GB)?{I got confused by 5-6 in the guide}
I've got an external optical drive
And can I do all the partitioning while XP installation ?

those partitions are examples for very newbies... and the idea behind it was as follows

1-recovery (built-in) primary
2-xp (built-in) primary
3-osx reserved area 35000mb pri (main installation)
4-extended area that will contain 5-6
5-osx reserved area 35000mb (for back-up/timemachine/clone drive for disaster recovery)
6-ddmac reserved area for dvd emulation
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3-5 are identical in size for perfect clone/backup but not necessary if u think you are too good...
6 is already for ddmac

if you want bare minimum it is 4 partitions
1-2 untouched primary
3-primary for osx give it the total left space minus 4.4 gb for ddmac
4- pri or extended as you like, make sure 4.4gb reserved for it!
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if you have a usb copy of windows and wanna get rid of recover partition, than u can remove the recovery and have total of 3 partitions
1- windows
2- osx
3- ddmac
and make sure u start clean by wiping everything and not just deleting partitions and having free space1
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[kkelis]

i would suggest you to remove everything apart from recovery and xp partition...

and start reading the partitioning again... including extended partitions... because current situation indicates that stg wrong with finding acceptable form of writable partition for OSX... either caused by your win 7 partitioning, and incorrect formatting/partitioning after removing win7!!!

and size the partitions as mentioned in the guide as 35000 mb rather than 24000 as i see...

also make sure u delete any aditional partition(s) win7 has created while installing! (win7 makes 200mb additional pri partition on some systems!!! which would mess up the whole stuff...)

That's what I did, I deleted the win7 partition from the beginning, so I only have recovery and xp left.

Now, with recovery and xp partitions only, the unallocated space is 72gb(yours is 73gb), so I tried 35(pri)+35(ext)+leftovers(ext), ddmac doesnt have enough space and I get errors.

I tried 35(pri)+33(ext)+leftovers(ext) and ddmac works ok, I still get "Still waiting for root device".

If you really think that 35+35 will be magic, I will try resizing c: to make the unallocated space 73gb instead of 72gb. Let me know!

[ Mysticus C*]

That's what I did, I deleted the win7 partition from the beginning, so I only have recovery and xp left.

Now, with recovery and xp partitions only, the unallocated space is 72gb(yours is 73gb), so I tried 35(pri)+35(ext)+leftovers(ext), ddmac doesnt have enough space and I get errors.

I tried 35(pri)+33(ext)+leftovers(ext) and ddmac works ok, I still get "Still waiting for root device".

If you really think that 35+35 will be magic, I will try resizing c: to make the unallocated space 73gb instead of 72gb. Let me know!

no i didnt say it is magic... i said it is better for newbies...

the best thing i could suggest you is to use ghost or stg similar to copy your recovery and win partition, and reformat entire hdd, bcoz i suspect win7 plays with mbr bits??? (needs more technicaly sound people to confirm)

else, like i said, there are two reasons for still waiting for root device!

1-) your sata/pata controller (sata in our case if your nc10 is a regular nc10 and not some different of the list model)) is not recognized! intel i945 chipset is well supported by osx so this option can be eliminated as i said before, if you dont have some funny pcie-x ssd hdd...

2-) your hdd partition scheme has some trouble/you dont have a partition that os x can access! a-) caused by altered MBR (suspicious because of win7 and/or vista way of playing with MBR bits) b-) wrong formatting of partition, so that osx cant access therefore cant initiate further install processes...

if you have enough technical knowledge and tools, i would suggest u to use ghost to back up win and rec partitions, and wipe entire hdd, using e.g. HIREN Tools CD

[2motive]

Hey Mysticus!

I appreciate your great job! I'm from Samsung's country (plz understand my bad Eng)

After the whole installing, the partition DDMAC should be kept?? I was not sure the partition is necessary to boot... give me some advices for this. It's not for keeping some hdd spaces, I want to simplify the boot sequence. After selecting 'osx system' in win-xp boot menu, should select osx partition in darwin again.. I tried to skip it - editing com.apple.boot.plist and using chain0 in windows.. but they didn't work. I guess it's caused by ddmac partition.

Any idea of it? I just want to see the apple logo with only 1 button in xp boot menu.

is it possible??

Thanks for reading!!

[kkelis]

Thanks mysticus. I will try play around with the MBR or reformatting the whole thing and I'll let you know.

[camdenbloke]

Hi Mysticus,

Was just wondering how you are getting on with the touchscreen, and whether you still think it's a worthwhile addition?

Andy.

[ Mysticus C*]

Hi Mysticus,

Was just wondering how you are getting on with the touchscreen, and whether you still think it's a worthwhile addition?

Andy.

i dont think it is a necessary addition for everyone... but if you have touchscreen it is quite handy at times as well... so it is down to a users' purpose, budget, ambition, and priorities... one thing is that this mod will make your warranty invalid because the stickers under the touchscreen that sticks the touchscreen module to the lcd will be strong and after a while it will be imposible to move/detach...

my impressions are not as professional use, as i dont do any fancy things on the sammy

considerations into buying/using:
+ it is handy for sure, but it costs 1/3 of the sammy!
+ process is simple yet can be BRUTAL in wrong hand easily rendering it useless well breaking/damaging LCD panel is an easy thing if wrong pressure at wrong place applied...
+ i dont have artistic ability or work to show off, but i can tell that it may not be a very sensitive tool for artistic work (well senstive pixel level work i mean, else it is fine )
+ for me at the moment, if i use touchpad for once, I use the touchscreen for 10 esp, if it is in my hands


@2motive: u can delete the ddmac partition, if you have installed the system using 10.5.6 iso, just tested it, and without ddmac, it works just fine, as long as u keep tboot in place rather than chain0

[hockeydude]

Hi, interesting work, cant seem to download everything though...demiload or whatever requires username and p/w and registration is closed.

Just wondering, has anyone got idened v1.4 10.5.6 working on the NC10, i'm downloading now....i'm after the easy option.

Good luck. I tried 10.5.6. I works, but ONLY if you do NOT select the NC10 option during the installation. For some reason, selecting that seems to break something and it will only boot using safe mode. I just didnt select that option, and instead selected the other options that I normally would select for chipset, apps and utilities, then it boots fine. I could not however, get Quartz Extreme to work....tried a lot of different kexts too.

[kkelis]

Mysticus, indeed there was a problem with the MBR. I downloaded MBRwizard and did a /repair which messed things up, and I fixed it by doing /active my c: partition. I can't recall if I did anything else because I was messing about, but after that procedure, I managed to boot into the installation.

[ Mysticus C*]

Good luck. I tried 10.5.6. I works, but ONLY if you do NOT select the NC10 option during the installation. For some reason, selecting that seems to break something and it will only boot using safe mode. I just didnt select that option, and instead selected the other options that I normally would select for chipset, apps and utilities, then it boots fine. I could not however, get Quartz Extreme to work....tried a lot of different kexts too.

hockeydude! you are wrong! and doing it completely wrong!

if you do not select the nc10 option it will not install any driver! the reason why it is messing (which u say it is breaking something, in fact it is not) is because you do not have your bios set correctly! see the bios settings!!! in the guide!!!

the reason for making a guide is for people to READ!!! if you do not understand use a translator (for example use google translation) if you dont read the guide or you do not understand the guide, it is likely that you will mess things up! which explains your situation....

to fix your problems, either start reading the guide carefully! and do everything as it says! or, just install nc10 update pack from Bike Town... if you still do not understand what i say, it is hard to help you any further...

@kkelis: good luck mate, and i hope the rest of the process works smooth

[vamos]

Thanks Mysticus, just got my dell card yesterday, went ahead and followed your guide and everything is working flawlessly. Thanks for all the time and effort you are putting in.

[kkelis]

Are any usb-wifi dongles compatible?
If so, is the compatibility dependent upon its chip?

Oh, and how do I turn off bluetooth? I went in preferences and the checkbox for turning it off is grayed out.

Mysticus, again thank you, the installation was succesfull...So if anyone has a similar problem, playing around with the MBR should solve it.

I don't know how much help I would be but if there is anything I could do to contribute to any osx86 projects I'm more than willing to.

[ Mysticus C*]

Are any usb-wifi dongles compatible?
If so, is the compatibility dependent upon its chip?

Oh, and how do I turn off bluetooth? I went in preferences and the checkbox for turning it off is grayed out.

Mysticus, again thank you, the installation was succesfull...So if anyone has a similar problem, playing around with the MBR should solve it.

I don't know how much help I would be but if there is anything I could do to contribute to any osx86 projects I'm more than willing to.

go to biketown site, and find samsung nc10 files link in UPDATE title, in the given link you will find various newer patches etc files you will find what you are looking for bluetooth and maybe some other minor...

always read the first post! and last 2-3 pages...

[Moonshine]

By chance is anyone (successfully) using A2DP Bluetooth headphones w/ their Mac'd NC10?

Just curious, as I haven't been able to get my Voyager 855's to work yet as A2DP "headphones". They work fine as a headset/mic (use it with Skype a lot) and it does offer up the other A2DP "headphone" profile option, but no go when switching to it. Under XP both profiles work fine.

If someone else is having any success with an A2DP connection, I'd just like to know so I can keep diggin.

[Moonshine]

Sure, like 10 mins after I post that I find another post that give some things to try. And it worked Actually sounds very nice. So my NC10 is now complete with working Skype and music.

Thanks for your work M!

[Antipas]

Hi,

anybody yet achieved to send the nc10 to deep sleep? I know that normal sleep at the moment only works on battery. Therefore deep sleep would be cool to have.

I habe searched via google and in this thread but so far I got no answer to my question. Someone asked it before but I havent seen anyone to answer it.

Thanks guys