M0000000000 Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Hey everyone, I just want to apologize for the wait... First off you're going to need: -Snow Leopard .dmg or install disc -An existing Leopard installation on a partition -2 open partitions -One 7GB & the other probably 10+GB (however big you want your SL partition to be) -A USB/external keyboard and mouse -Patience Step 1) Restoring the .dmg to a seperate Partition Have the SL.dmg on your desktop (you should currently be on your Leopard Install) and open up Disk Utility and click on the Restore tab You're gonna get something looking like this: Next, mount the Snow Leopard.dmg and you should get something named "Mac OS X Install DVD" Now go back to Disk Utility, and on the left side you should see something like this: (ignore the top part, that's just my HDD) Click and Drag the Mac OS X Install DVD from that column into the Source box Next you're going to want to Drag the partition that's about 7GB in to the Destination box (Make sure that the partition is empty) then click on Restore *This process should probably take about 10-20 minutes because what it is doing is copying the the .dmg contents to the partition Step 2) Modifying the Install A) Download this: OSInstall.mpkg When everything is finished restoring click on the partition that you restored it to and it should look something like the one from the mounted .dmg Push down Alt+Shift+G and a box should appear looking like this In that box type in: /NAMEOFPARTITION/System/Installation/Packages/ Where the NAMEOFPARTITION should be well, the name of your partition with the installation contents (the one you restored to) Now with the OSInstall.pkg you downloaded Copy and paste it into there and REPLACE the old one *The purpose of this is to allow you to install Mac OS X onto a MBR Partition Map instead of the GUID one When you replaced the OSInstall.pkg double click it and start the installation Make sure you choose the Partition you want it installed to Customize it to however you want..I'd recommend unselecting all the printer drivers because they always caused an error for me when installing *This process will take a while, but it installs Snow Leopard to that seperate partition Now once the installation is complete DO NOT RESTART YOUR COMPUTER because we need to edit something in order to make it bootable Download Chameleon RC3 thanks to Dr. Hurt for making it! Now install that to your partition with the Snow Leopard Install Now download this Extra Unzip that and you should get a folder called Extra Open up the Partition that you installed Snow Leopard to and Replace the Extra folder there with the one you just downloaded Now you can restart your computer and boot into the Snow Leopard Install Step 3) Inside Snow Leopard Now once you booted i'd recommend using the -v bootflag to see everything (ie. what causes a kernel panic if you get one) (Now personally, I got a kernel panic because of the IOATAFAMILY.kext so i had to boot back into my Leopard Install and delete it manually from SL and then try again) If you don't get a kernel panic, then , but you realized that your keyboard and mouse don't work that's why you need a USB/external one Plug those in and fill everything out *Wifi and the webcam already worked for me "out of the box" Install the VoodooPS2Controller and VoodooHDA kexts and restart to get your mouse, keyboard, and sound working Also, try installing NVInject to get graphics working and then restart If you see that your battery meter is missing install this If your mouse goes crazy when touching it, but your keyboard works try following steps here hey i found a fix to the trackpad problemthis is what you need to do go to your LEOPARD install and go to: /System/Library/Extensions/ once there go to the ApplePS2Controller.kext and right click it Click on "Show Package Contents" then click go to /Contents/Plugins/ Copy the ApplePS2Trackpad.kext to your desktop Next go to the SNOW LEOPARD installation and go to: /System/Library/Extensions Go to the "VoodooPS2Controller.kext" and right click and "Show Package Contents" then go through /Contents/Plugins/ Delete the VoodooPS2Trackpad.kext and then copy the ApplePS2Trackpad.kext into there Rename the "ApplePS2Trackpad.kext" to "VoodooPS2Trackpad.kext" After that reinstall the VoodooPS2Controller.kext with kextutility and reboot it's a simple replacement that gets it fixed And with that basic Snow Leopard should be on your Vostro 1400 working Oh, and updating to 10.6.1 works well. Didn't need to modify anything. Install. Reboot. Perfection Update If you had to remove the IOATAFAMILY.kext (like I did) you've probably realized that the DVD drive doesn't work well download this one (you have or may not have to install AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext into your Extra folder.) that should fix it Also, if you're having problems with fixing permissions, remount you're Snow Leopard.dmg and get go back to the Packages folder (where OSInstall.pkg was) and find BSD.pkg and reinstall that There still will be more updates coming **Update to 10.6.2 is a breeze, just download the Combo package from Apple and run it! **Update to 10.6.3 UPDATE - just download the Combo package from Apple and run it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M0000000000 Posted September 22, 2009 Author Share Posted September 22, 2009 100 views.. no comments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munakib Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 100 views..no comments Many thanks my friend, I will be trying it this weekend. Hey M000000000, whats your vostro configuration/spec, that would help alot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wulfer Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 thanks for taking the time to write this tutorial i'll test it tomorrow and post results in case of succes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M0000000000 Posted September 24, 2009 Author Share Posted September 24, 2009 Many thanks my friend, I will be trying it this weekend. Hey M000000000, whats your vostro configuration/spec, that would help alot. My Computer Specs: -Dell Vostro 1400 -Intel Core 2 Duo -T5270 at 1.40GHz -2.00GB of RAM -Chipset: Intel PM965 -Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS 128mb hi man. well done. congrats. i also tried installing SL, i have a vostro 1310. Snow installation went pretty nice. but i have a few questions for you. i have nvidia 8400GS 128mb graphics, which one do you have?....for me, after installing nvinject, the expose, spaces and desktop graphics like that didn't go as fast and smooth as in leopard. i looked in system profiler for the graphics, but i can't see whether QE/CI are enabled or not. how good are your graphics in snow? can you see if you have QE/CI enabled in yours??..... tell me.... Another thing. do you have the kext for the battery power indicator? i don't, can you share it with me? currently i'm running 10.5.8, but i want to get the snow... and i want so bad the graphics go as smooth and fast as in leopard... hope you can help me thanks. lilol18 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...st&id=54737 use that for battery graphics i have the same as you..i don't know if QE/CI is supported but everything is extremely fast for me, did you update to 10.6.1, i read that somewhere it maybe help. heres mine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinoy Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Holly cow. That is one big Circus to install an OS. Hats off to you for having the patience. You must want to run OSX really really bad to have to thru that kind of :censored2: to get it installed. On the time and effort to share it with us though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M0000000000 Posted September 25, 2009 Author Share Posted September 25, 2009 wow man, same picture here, it doesn't show if qe/ci are enabled or not... but i wonder, the effects in the dashboard are merely qeci because of the effects when you add a widget it creates a waves effect, this isn't present in my sno leo...in yours(please tell me)???.... for me, the system goes normal (fast). but graphics are very dumpy = no qe/ci. or can you tell me exactly what you did if you got it? but haven't this guy "delirumhappy" already got them??? i already wrote to him asking for help... meanwhile i will reinstall Snow, and try again.... yeah the wave works fine when adding a widget, i don't even remember what i installed, i'm pretty sure it was a nvinject kext. the graphics are fast/great, the same as it was in leopard for me, and i can't even tell the difference. i wouldn't depend on deliriumhappy, he pmed me quite a bit earlier asking for help then he suddenly dropped off earth. i'll look aroudn to see if i can find that one nvinject kext, but try updating to 10.6.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghola Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Yes, this is what I needed for my Dell 1520, you got it working now I just have to find the best Audio.kext for it........ I want to install this on my Desktop to but I have a Vapor X 4870, so I just keep having panics, need a boot loader that supports the 4870 then I can live my life again LOL. wasted so much time, well not completely wasted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M0000000000 Posted September 26, 2009 Author Share Posted September 26, 2009 Updated Still more coming soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilol18 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 yeah the wave works fine when adding a widget, i don't even remember what i installed, i'm pretty sure it was a nvinject kext. the graphics are fast/great, the same as it was in leopard for me, and i can't even tell the difference.i wouldn't depend on deliriumhappy, he pmed me quite a bit earlier asking for help then he suddenly dropped off earth. i'll look aroudn to see if i can find that one nvinject kext, but try updating to 10.6.1 oh man, then you do have qe/ci (another hint: you have to have the bar semitransparent). i haven't got that support in my card. i have a few questions to ask: i tried the battery pkg you sent me. it didn't work at first, neither the sound voodoohda i installed just before, BUT !. i start SNOW under "arch=i386" flag et voilá. sound and battery, but the same graphics (non qe/ci). that flag is for enabling some(or all?) 32bit kexts. i wonder: you have to do that too? and everytime you boot?? another thing. the nvinject, where did you installed it?? in System/Library/Extensions or Extra/Extensions ??? and what version do you have?? 0.2.2??... and final is: did you install nvinject in 10.6 and then upgraded to 10.6.1 and that is when you got full support??... what steps should i take to get it? c'mon man, cool having your help. thnks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M0000000000 Posted September 29, 2009 Author Share Posted September 29, 2009 oh man, then you do have qe/ci (another hint: you have to have the bar semitransparent). i haven't got that support in my card. i have a few questions to ask: i tried the battery pkg you sent me. it didn't work at first, neither the sound voodoohda i installed just before, BUT !. i start SNOW under "arch=i386" flag et voilá. sound and battery, but the same graphics (non qe/ci). that flag is for enabling some(or all?) 32bit kexts. i wonder: you have to do that too? and everytime you boot?? another thing. the nvinject, where did you installed it?? in System/Library/Extensions or Extra/Extensions ??? and what version do you have?? 0.2.2??... and final is: did you install nvinject in 10.6 and then upgraded to 10.6.1 and that is when you got full support??... what steps should i take to get it? c'mon man, cool having your help. thnks arch=i386 means the 32bit mode, i use it and it enables everything. instead of having to type it in everytime you can edit com.apple.Boot.plist file add this into it <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>arch=i386</string> as for graphics, it doesn't say anything about support in the system profiler, but yes i have the semi-transparent menu bar at top and also when i add widgets, there is a wave thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Parks Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 arch=i386 means the 32bit mode, i use it and it enables everything.instead of having to type it in everytime you can edit com.apple.Boot.plist file add this into it <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>arch=i386</string> as for graphics, it doesn't say anything about support in the system profiler, but yes i have the semi-transparent menu bar at top and also when i add widgets, there is a wave thing To test for QE/CI all you need to do is open the DVD player. If you get an initialization error you do not have QE/CI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeronumo Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 is it fully functional? no sleep issues etc? works with vostros equiped with x3100 video? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M0000000000 Posted October 2, 2009 Author Share Posted October 2, 2009 is it fully functional? no sleep issues etc?works with vostros equiped with x3100 video? thanks no it's not 100% functional sleep doesn't work, it'll go to sleep but then wake up again making some noise from the DVD drive. shutdown/restart doesn't work, the openhaltrestart.kext doesn't work for me also it seems that software update doesn't really work..it always says that the software is up to date.. and i'm sorry, but what is x3100 video?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilol18 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 arch=i386 means the 32bit mode, i use it and it enables everything.instead of having to type it in everytime you can edit com.apple.Boot.plist file add this into it <key>Kernel Flags</key> <string>arch=i386</string> as for graphics, it doesn't say anything about support in the system profiler, but yes i have the semi-transparent menu bar at top and also when i add widgets, there is a wave thing NOOO !.. man, now everytime i reinstall SL, i always get to a Kernel Panic (CPU 0--something like that)...this panic always appear in the first SL boot.... also have to say that i installed it 2 times before with success, but now nothing using the same steps as before. i simply don't understand--¿? do you know...what/why could that be?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldinsanelymacuser32 Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Hey everyone, I just want to apologize for the wait... First off you're going to need: -Snow Leopard .dmg or install disc -An existing Leopard installation on a partition -2 open partitions -One 7GB & the other probably 10+GB (however big you want your SL partition to be) -A USB/external keyboard and mouse -Patience Step 1) Restoring the .dmg to a seperate Partition Have the SL.dmg on your desktop (you should currently be on your Leopard Install) and open up Disk Utility and click on the Restore tab You're gonna get something looking like this: Next, mount the Snow Leopard.dmg and you should get something named "Mac OS X Install DVD" Now go back to Disk Utility, and on the left side you should see something like this: (ignore the top part, that's just my HDD) Click and Drag the Mac OS X Install DVD from that column into the Source box Next you're going to want to Drag the partition that's about 7GB in to the Destination box (Make sure that the partition is empty) then click on Restore *This process should probably take about 10-20 minutes because what it is doing is copying the the .dmg contents to the partition Step 2) Modifying the Install A) Download this: OSInstall.pkg (You're going to need to double click on the file to unzip it and get the OSInstall.pkg) When everything is finished restoring click on the partition that you restored it to and it should look something like the one from the mounted .dmg Push down Alt+Shift+G and a box should appear looking like this In that box type in: /NAMEOFPARTITION/System/Installation/Packages/ Where the NAMEOFPARTITION should be well, the name of your partition with the installation contents (the one you restored to) Now with the OSInstall.pkg you downloaded Copy and paste it into there and REPLACE the old one *The purpose of this is to allow you to install Mac OS X onto a MBR Partition Map instead of the GUID one When you replaced the OSInstall.pkg double click it and start the installation Make sure you choose the Partition you want it installed to Customize it to however you want..I'd recommend unselecting all the printer drivers because they always caused an error for me when installing *This process will take a while, but it installs Snow Leopard to that seperate partition Now once the installation is complete DO NOT RESTART YOUR COMPUTER because we need to edit something in order to make it bootable Download Chameleon RC3 thanks to Dr. Hurt for making it! Now install that to your partition with the Snow Leopard Install Now download this Extra Unzip that and you should get a folder called Extra Open up the Partition that you installed Snow Leopard to and Replace the Extra folder there with the one you just downloaded Now you can restart your computer and boot into the Snow Leopard Install Step 3) Inside Snow Leopard Now once you booted i'd recommend using the -v bootflag to see everything (ie. what causes a kernel panic if you get one) (Now personally, I got a kernel panic because of the IOATAFAMILY.kext so i had to boot back into my Leopard Install and delete it manually from SL and then try again) If you don't get a kernel panic, then , but you realized that your keyboard and mouse don't work that's why you need a USB/external one Plug those in and fill everything out *Wifi and the webcam already worked for me "out of the box" Install the VoodooPS2Controller and VoodooHDA kexts and restart to get your mouse, keyboard, and sound working Also, try installing NVInject to get graphics working and then restart If you see that your battery meter is missing install this If your mouse goes crazy when touching it, but your keyboard works try following steps here And with that basic Snow Leopard should be on your Vostro 1400 working Oh, and updating to 10.6.1 works well. Didn't need to modify anything. Install. Reboot. Perfection Update If you had to remove the IOATAFAMILY.kext (like I did) you've probably realized that the DVD drive doesn't work well download this one (you have or may not have to install AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext into your Extra folder.) that should fix it Also, if you're having problems with fixing permissions, remount you're Snow Leopard.dmg and get go back to the Packages folder (where OSInstall.pkg was) and find BSD.pkg and reinstall that There still will be more updates coming have you ever gotten restarts to work? i have a dell vostro 1510 with sleep and shutdown working, just no restarts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M0000000000 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 NOOO !.. man, now everytime i reinstall SL, i always get to a Kernel Panic (CPU 0--something like that)...this panic always appear in the first SL boot.... also have to say that i installed it 2 times before with success, but now nothing using the same steps as before. i simply don't understand--¿? do you know...what/why could that be?? no idea..you're gonna have to tell me what else the KP says try booting it without the kernal flag.. just delete the "arch=i386" from it have you ever gotten restarts to work? i have a dell vostro 1510 with sleep and shutdown working, just no restarts... nope..sorry i don't even have shutdown or sleep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amp3d Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 great tutorial, screenshots and all! Quick question though, I'm running 10.5.6 on my Dell XPS M1730 laptop, but I haven't got it to run a Vanilla kernel yet. My specs are listed here, should I have it a go? http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...ables#XPS_M1730 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M0000000000 Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 great tutorial, screenshots and all! Quick question though, I'm running 10.5.6 on my Dell XPS M1730 laptop, but I haven't got it to run a Vanilla kernel yet. My specs are listed here, should I have it a go? http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...ables#XPS_M1730 try partitioning your harddrive and give it a go! if you need a partitioner one that's always worked well for me is Gparted the motherboard is intel so it should be alright with the vanilla kernal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowle0 Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Does This guide work for the newer vostro 1410 (w/ or w/o) dual core?? Specs: http://us.acer.com/acer/productv.do?Langua...wrAjaxHistory=3 ill buy whichever one is more compatible but preferably the 1.2ghz cause it has a dual core. Is this for 64 bit? And if not does anyone have it working on 64 and how did u do it and does it work as good as 32? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M0000000000 Posted November 14, 2009 Author Share Posted November 14, 2009 Does This guide work for the newer vostro 1410 (w/ or w/o) dual core?? Specs: http://us.acer.com/acer/productv.do?Langua...wrAjaxHistory=3 ill buy whichever one is more compatible but preferably the 1.2ghz cause it has a dual core. Is this for 64 bit? And if not does anyone have it working on 64 and how did u do it and does it work as good as 32? i'm using the vostro 1400 with dual core it may work, i'm not 100% because i don't have it 64 bit and 32 bit both for for me but for 64 bit the AppleIntelCPUPower...kext needs to be deleted because the NullCPU...kext only works in 32 bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosteg Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I have the vostro 1400 with dual core It works, but i can't get working wireless. I have broadcom 43xx and used bcm43xx_enabler.sh in Leo. And it doesn't work in Snow Leopard(( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M0000000000 Posted November 27, 2009 Author Share Posted November 27, 2009 I have the vostro 1400 with dual coreIt works, but i can't get working wireless. I have broadcom 43xx and used bcm43xx_enabler.sh in Leo. And it doesn't work in Snow Leopard(( that's weird..mines the same exact and it works perfectly fine out of the box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamahayzf600 Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Unfortunately, I don't have a Leopard partition on the target computer as this guide outlines. Has anyone gotten SL to install to the 1400 via usb flash drive? I setup a flash drive with instructions from in this post. All I get is a screen telling me "you have to restart your computer." I've got access to a mac book pro. Maybe I should use it along with a sata enclosure to take the target drive and put the installer on an extra partition like this guide says. The link for the OSInstall.mpkg is dead. Anyone have an alternative place for it? Thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandarp Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 I have the vostro 1400 with dual coreIt works, but i can't get working wireless. I have broadcom 43xx and used bcm43xx_enabler.sh in Leo. And it doesn't work in Snow Leopard(( I had the same problem but, I installed appleairport.kext from dell post installer using dell 1395 driver. Then tried bcm43xx enabler file. It came up eventually.Try that and lemme know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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