Takenover83 Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 My first attempt. I am using a 10.4.3 (4.2B)install dvd. I boot up and get to the part where you have to select a partition to install to. It doesn't find my created HF+ partition. I tried two different harddrives. One of the harddrives (a 10G seagate) was formated totally with HF+. Using the disk utility, only shows my DVD drive. So maybe something to do with my chipset, but I didnt see anything negative for my SN96G5 on the wiki. These are your standard ATA harddrives. I tried disabling my onboard sata controller to see if it was stirring up a problem. My second attempt. I used DD to copy over the harddrive image to the partion. Yay it booted, but not completly. I get a little icon in the middle of the screen in the form of a no sign. I was able to boot this up via vmware after pointing it to the partition. Just not natively. Searching the forums didnt help much, so I thought I would atleast share my experience so maybe I can get some help I did see someone else had a SN95G5 and had some success, but they didnt post much details. So im guessing it is possible. Edit: Few more details added. Here is some details on my shuttle. Easier then me posting it all. http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SN95G5%20V3.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takenover83 Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 Problem #1 fixed. Harddrive was not on Primary cable. After I swapped it, the harddrive was detected. Will report after install atempt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takenover83 Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 Ok im up and running on 10.4.5 So far I dont have network or sound, and my ps/2 keyboard was not working. Good thing I had a USB keyboard laying around. Im such a noobie that I couldnt even figure out how to properly shutdown. Nic is Marvel Yukon Gigabit based. I want to see if I can get that fixed first. Off to search a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takenover83 Posted March 4, 2006 Author Share Posted March 4, 2006 I fixed the keyboard problem by using a usb to ps/2 adapter. I guess you can't use a mix of usb and ps/2 with the keyboard and mouse, it's either ps/2 or usb, not both. I through in a spare nic to temporarly fix my nic problem. I think it's a realtek based 8139 card, it worked like a champ. To bad I can't get a widescreen resolution, as I have some nice black boarders on the side of 27inch hdtv lcd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capran Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 I fixed the keyboard problem by using a usb to ps/2 adapter. I guess you can't use a mix of usb and ps/2 with the keyboard and mouse, it's either ps/2 or usb, not both. I through in a spare nic to temporarly fix my nic problem. I think it's a realtek based 8139 card, it worked like a champ. To bad I can't get a widescreen resolution, as I have some nice black boarders on the side of 27inch hdtv lcd. I have a SN95G5, see my threads: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...691entry70691 http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=698&hl= http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=11201&hl= I want to get widescreen working too. I have a Dell 2005FPW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0m3gA Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 I have the Shuttle XPC SN95G5 and successfully installed 10.4.6 (Goatsecx). I could'nt figure out why nothing appeared in Disk Utility until I read how you put the HDD on the Primary IDE Cable, much obliged. Working: Onboard Sound and Lan, MX518 (mouse on ps2 adaptor), ps2 keyboard. Not Working: Acceleration I think. Windows and Mouse stutter while moving. Internet pages 'render' slow. Have to manually reboot. I have an ATI 9800Pro. Any idea how to fix this speed issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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