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This tutorial is for the

Dell Inspiron 1520.

It is quite possible to follow this tutorial if you have other similar models, or know that the specs are pretty much the same.

This will explain how to Dual Boot your laptop with Windows XP and MAC OS X 10.5.2.

Now, if you already have Vista, and wish to keep it that way, then go ahead, just read this first and follow the options that are for you!

 

Note that you shouldn’t do this if you are a beginner at computers and {censored} like that, there is a chance you could lose everything on your hard drive if you don’t follow the steps correctly. However the odds of this happening are slim to none. 

*I still don’t take responsibility for anything that may happen during the process of  this*

Since this tutorial isn’t very long, I recommend reading it before actually following it, you’d be surprised at what you could miss…

I should also point out that this is illegal; the Mac Operating System is not open source, therefore the images like iATKOS and Kalyway don’t have the right to modify them.

Since you have searched for this, you are probably well aware of all that!

 

 

 

What will you need to follow this tutorial?

 

 

iAKOTSv2 10.5.2 Image

Now I’m pretty sure I can’t list where to get this. But seriously, Google Is Your Friend.

Burn the ISO at the SLOWEST speed to a dvd disc.

 

Acronis Disk Director Suite

Now this isn’t freeware. But I’m sure you will go acquire it from rapidshare or thepiratebay or wherever you got your iATKOS image.

 

 

 

 

During this installation, I’m going to assume that you have already formatted your laptop, and loaded it with XP.

If you haven’t, follow the quick steps in this section. If you wish to keep Vista, ignore this section.

 

Restart your laptop and hit F2 to get into the setup BIOS menu. In the second drop down box, and I think the second or third from the bottom of that list, there will be a section about hard drive. It should be on ATI, switch it to AHCI and save.

Also check that your boot priority is set to DVD Drive.

Reboot with the XP disc in.

Format your hard drive, and your recovery partition.

If you create two partitions here, one NTFS and one FAT32, you won’t have to do STEP ONE in the next section.

However I can’t remember if XP lets you create a FAT32 partition. So either create a NTFS partition for your Windows XP and a FAT32 one for the MAC OS, or create just the one NTFS partition.

 

When you have installed XP, you might realize your driver discs for the laptop don’t work!

That’s okay, because they are for Vista. So go to the Dell website to acquire your correct model drivers.

If you have the Dell 1520 that I have, this SHOULD be the right link:

http://supportapj.dell.com/support/downloa...&hidlang=en

 

 

 

So. Providing everything has gone alright so far, you can now move on to getting closer to MAC OS X 10.5.2.

I should probably also point out, that after installing XP, it may not boot up. Just go into the BIOS and change your hard drive setting back to ATI instead of AHCI if that’s the case.

 

 

STEP ONE:

Acronis Disk Director. 

 

This program is fairly straight forward.

You’re going to want to split your hard drive into TWO.

One NTFS for running Windows XP and one for running MAC OS X .

I have a 175GB partition for Windows, and 75GB partition for MAC OS X.  

You should note that when you are running MAC, you can go through your Windows Hard Drive and access the stuff on there. You can’t modify any of it (so no deleting or renaming), however you CAN copy off it.

Just thought you may be interested to know.

 

 

Anyway, in Acronis D/Director, “Resize” your hard drive, make it however much smaller you want, and that’ll leave ‘unallocated space’… then “Create Partition” and format it with “FAT32”. From memory, this will want to restart your computer, and it could take up to 20 minutes… The first time I did that, it didn’t take any time at all, but the second time I tried, it did.. Anyway, click the Racing Flag button (Commit). And boom. It should start doing its stuff..

 

Okay, so you are going to have to reboot your computer now, and F2 to go into the BIOS. 

Check to make sure the hard drive it set on AHCI, not ATI. You should also check your boot priority is on DVD Drive first. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STEP TWO:

iATKOS v2i 10.5.2

 

Okay. Reboot your computer with the iATKOS disc in, and it should load up a screen saying something about Hit F8 for options. Hit F8 and you can type in commands to boot from.

I suggest typing in the following , and then pressing ENTER;

 

-v -legacy

After you typed that in, and pressed enter, it should go through a lot of stuff on a black screen, random white jibberish.

If a kernel panic appears, write it down and google search it, or search it on insanelymac.

Those guys are a great help.

 

When the installation comes up, follow the prompts.

When it comes time to check the disk and stuff, go to Disk Utility (in one of the menu’s at the top of the screen).

Click on your prepared hard disk partition. The one you want to put MAC OS X onto, NOT the Windows one!!!

Click Erase.

Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for the volume format then name it whatever you like it. 

Click Erase, again.

Close Disk Utility, and select the hard drive.

Click Next or whatever it has.

Keep your eye out , on one of the pages, it has a CUSTOMIZE button on the left.

You MUST not ignore this. You HAVE to click on it, and change what it installs.

Find the Network section, and check Broadcom 440x and then any of the other drivers related to your laptop.

nVidia 256mb might be there, so if you have the 8600M GT graphics, tick that.

Also tick bootmgr, or something bootmanager related.

Now it might take a while to install, but once it does, it will need a reboot. 

 

REBOOT YOUR LAPTOP

 

Now, you should be greeted with a “Select boot” screen.

It’s not the most attractive of boot screens, but it does the job!

Default is probably OS X hard drive, (whatever you called it), and if you don’t choose anything for 10 seconds or so, It’ll just boot that.

Just press the up arrow and select “NTFS Windows XP Pro” or whatever your Windows is if you wish to boot up in Windows. Or select “Whatever you named MAC hard drive” and press enter if you wish to boot up in Mac.

 

 

THAT’S IT!!! YOU. ARE. DONE!

 

MAC DRIVERS:

Display - GeForce 8600M GT

Download this http://rapidshare.com/files/100669894/NVInstallerV.41.pkg

After installing that, and a reboot, it should work perfectly 

Click on About This Mac and more options and then graphics to view what graphics card it has registered.

 

 

Sound - Sigmatel 9205

Sound is half working, the sound comes out of the speakers, but the Line In and Line Out currently aren’t working. If you look around Insanelymac then you may locate an answer.

(http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=77926)

 

Download this http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B6O6ALND

Unzip it 

Go to your /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext

Delete if you have one

Replace it with the downloaded one. You may need to enter your password.

Go to disk utilites and repair permission.

Reboot.

 

 

Ethernet :

 Should work out of the box if you selected the 440x in the installation.

 

Bluetooth:

Should work out of the box! 

USB:

Should work out of the box! 

 

Firewire:

I’m not entirely sure, haven’t had the chance to check this yet.

I’ll grab a video camera tomorrow and check if this works, and I’ll re-edit it then!

 

Memory Card Reader:

Unable to get working as of yet.

 

 

Any questions?

PM me or email the.heywood@gmail.com 

and I'll try to assist!

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Thanks for this. Am going to try when I get a backup harddrive. If I have a system which is fresh and I want Vista/OS X what do I do? Same thing except partition from start and install Vista then install OS X? Also what would you recommend GPT or MBR?

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I also have a dell 1520, but cannot get the sound on iatkosv2 to work right. When I replace the file like you listed to do after rebooting all I don't get sound. Instead it acts like the sound is working, and hd audio output is shown when I go into the sound options. The sound doesn't work right, if you can shed any light that would be amazing, thanks,

 

TeeravX

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I have an unknown problem

My installation gone quite normally as the instruction

But when the install finished and it rebooted.

It loaded the select startup volume screen.

I press Enter on the vol where I installed the mac os x

But it won't boot or anything when I chose my windows ntfs which is my vista

It just restart by itself.

I'm clueless atm. I'm writing this on my phone.

Please help me of what can be done for me atm

Thanks

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