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[TheRSLegend]

Wondering if anybody's tried it yet? It's brand new and I'm waiting to see if it works before messing with it.

[Imperiopolis]

I'll be trying on a 1008ha this weekend which has the same hardware essentially, so it should be telling of whether or not it will work on the 1005ha.  I'll post back with how it works and a guide if it's successful.

[Ninjew]

That would be awesome as I too want to install SL on an Asus 1005HA-P.

[makeitso]

I've seen images of it running well on a 901.

I have a 901 with 32gb ssd. How would i go about starting to do it? Any help??

[TheRSLegend]

Get back to me if it works on the 1008, please.

[TheRSLegend]

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[TheRSLegend]

Has anyone had any success with the retail?

[Imperiopolis]

Currently no success, 10.5.8 is running smoothly on the 1008ha, but cannot get SL to boot, getting a KP.  (it has installed, though)  Trying to find the right combo of kexts to get it to work now.

[Imperiopolis]

Update: I have got snow leopard running on my 1008ha, I will post a guide shortly.  It's very simple if you have 10.5.8 booting once you have the right collection of kext and the proper bootloader.

[TheRSLegend]

I was hoping I wouldn't have to go through Leopard to use Snow... Oh well. Could you post a guide for the Leopard install as well? Because I was holding off on that on my 1005HA for SL instead.

[Damolp]

Yeah i got it booting on my 1000H  1005HA and 901 the KP at start was puzzling me worked it out that it was the dsdl file. Ended up writing my own kext for bt as there is none avaliable.

[Imperiopolis]

Care to share your bluetooth kext? I'm experimenting with the WLAN now, there is support for the AR9280, I kind of am hoping that this can be modified to support the AR9285 in the 1005 and 1008 models.

[kyle c]

I'm waiting for some feedback before I dive into SL on my 1005HA. A guide, even a minimal one, would be much appreciated though. Thanks guys

[Imperiopolis]

I can throw up a guide for the bare bones stuff tonight.

[TheRSLegend]

It would be much appreciated.

[TheRSLegend]

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[Imperiopolis]

Installing Snow Leopard on the eeePC 1008HA

First, what works and doesn't work:

Things working:
Bluetooth
Sleep, Restart, Shutdown
Keyboard with basic function keys
Trackpad with tap and two finger scroll
Sound (no mic, it seems)
Video with full native Resolution
Webcam in photobooth and skype (doesn't seem to work in iChat)
Time Machine

Not working yet:
WLAN (Think this is certainly possible, with everything currently supported by the atheros drivers in snow, but you can always swap for a fully supported card)
Ethernet (Doubt this will work, haven't really looked at it)

Now that that's out of the way, here are the steps.  Please only try this if you know what you're doing.  I take no responsibility for destroying your eeePC.

Requirments:
eeePC 1008HA (the 1005 model will probably work as well)
my snow extra pack (download)
NetbookInstaller (download)
Snow Leopard Installer
An 8gb Flash Drive, or other free partition beyond where you wish to install
A working Leopard Install (Doesn't need to be on the 1008HA if you wish to install to an external HDD)

Step 1:
On your working Leopard Install, use Disk Utility to format your 8gb flash drive as MBR with 1 Partition, name it SL Installer.  Then restore your Snow Leopard DVD or DMG to the Flash Drive.  If you wish to install on an MBR partition, you'll want to navigate to System/Installation/Packages and replace your OSInstall.mpkg with this one.

Step 2:
Execute the OSInstall.mpkg previously mentioned, and begin the install.  Make sure to select your proper target drive, and in Customize to deselect Languages and Printers, or your install will fail.

Step 4:
Alright, you've got Snow installed on your 1008 now, but you're not ready to boot quite yet.  Just a few more steps to complete.  First, start up the NetbookInstaller app you should've downloaded, and run it on your new Snow Leopard install.  It may take several minutes.  It will tell you that you're running an unsupported device, just hit continue.  Select your drive, and check only the following:
Install PC EFI v9
Install General Extensions

Then let it do its magic.

Step 5:
You're almost ready! At this point, your SL install should be fully bootable and ready to go, but I assume you'd like sound, sleep, and a working battery meter.  So, copy my provided Extra folder to your new Snow partition, overwriting any files when prompted, and repair permissions on the files in terminal.

Now, if you've done everything correctly, you should be ready to reboot into snow and be greeted with the welcome video   Enjoy!

Big thanks to the people here for providing me with all the information needed to get this running on our eeePCs and writing the needed apps.  If it works for you, you should support them

[Imperiopolis]

Update:

Utilizing the guide here for dell minis, I've now got full native resolution and working bluetooth.  Still working on wifi and sound.  Basically, all you do is install SL, then run the NetbookInstaller on your Snow Leopard drive.

I'm actually even posting this from my SL boot utilizing my bluetooth PAN

It all runs very very smoothly.

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I did a clean install off another computer. followed the standard install stuff. Replaced IOATAFamily.kext in /E/E/ patched GMA950. installed RT2860.

Bluetooth, wirelesss, video, 10.6, all work on my 1000HE. Only problem I am having is after every reboot disk needs to be repaired. Will get disk warrior 4.2 and try a repair with that see if it works perm.


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[Imperiopolis]

Okay, added in VoodooHDA and now I've got sound working nicely.  The only things still broken are sleep and wlan.

(Still posting from it, it's extremely fast and stable)