[Guide/Install] Snow Leopard On Dell E6500/E6400, Dual boot Windows 7 and DON'T NEED 8 GB USB Thumb Drive

[ntyonline]

Hi All,

 

Thanks to the original post of Pratician, CalaverX11 and many others people, finally i found a way that i think is the easiest plus with minimum tools require to install a clean Snow Leopard on E6500 (I think the same will work on E6400).

 

Since the original post is more focus on Leopard, so i decide to start a new thread here and use it as the collection points for Snow Leopard with E6400/E6500. If you interest in original post, below is the link.

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=134430

 

In this guide, you do not need any thumb drive or portable hard drive at all. (It had been puzzle me for some time that should i buy a 8GB thumb drive just to install SL on my machine)

 

What do you need:

1. Boot 132 CD ISO

2. Ubuntu CD

3. Original Snow Leopard DVD

4. Extra Folder for Snow Leopard, attached below. Special thanks for CalaverX11

5. Chamelon 2 RC 3, attached below.

6. Make sure your Bios setting for SATA is AHCI. Do not use IRRT, for some reason it just stop working when i set it as IRRT. Since the laptop have only one harddisk, technically IRRT is useless anyway. You can google around if you wonder what IRRT use for.

 

Here we go:

Part 1 Format and Install Snow Leopard:

- Boot using Boot 132 CD loader.

- Wait until finish booting and your CD stop spinning. Remove the CD and insert Snow Leopard DVD and press F5 (2 times) until you see the SL DVD show up. You might need to wait few sec here.

- Select and Boot the SL DVD.

- After the "Installation Language" window, open Disk Utility.

- If you wish to Dual-boot Windows 7, make at least 2 partitions. The first partition reserve for Windows 7 and create the second partitions as [Mac OS Extended (Journaled)] plus GUID option.

- Exit the Disk Utility and install SL on the second partition. (Be patient here, you will need at least half an hour. If the progress bar did not move, just move your mouse around, it is just because it is not refresh properly).

- After finish installing, boot again using the Boot CD 132 and this time select the SL that you just install on your second partition. Hope that you can boot into your newly install SL without problem.

- Once you boot into SL, install the Chamelon 2 RC 3 below to the partition that the SL currently install.

- Copy and paste the extra folder attached below to your extra folder. Thanks to CalaverX11 for collecting all the necessary file.

 

If you just wish to install SL, you can stop here, if you wish to Dual Boot with Windows 7, see Part 2

 

Part 2 Dual boot with Windows 7

- Boot using Ubuntu disk, and choose the first option that did not really install the Ubuntu, just allow you to run it from the disk.

- Use the Disk Utilities of Ubuntu to delete the first partition and recreate the first partition.

- Exit Ubuntu

- Install Windows 7 as usual. At this points, Windows 7 will be your default boot OS.

- Install EasyBCD. EasyBCD Download Link

- Click on Add/Remove Entries

- Add an entry for Mac and select Drive C:

- Reboot and try to boot into the Windows 7 and SL.

 

At this points you should have the working Windows 7 and SL.

 

Currently what is not working:

- Wifi (Intel 5100 a/g/n): NO

- Shutdown/Restart: NO

- Sleep: NO

- Build-in Mic: NO

- SD Slot: NO

 

If you manage to make any of those work, please let me know and i will update the guide here. Thanks.

Chameleon_2_RC3.zip

CalaverX11Extra.zip