iDeneb 10.5.6 to Retail Reinstall

[mjenner10]

Hi Guys,

 

Firstly, thanks for your help so far, the advice on these forums has been invaluable in getting my hackintosh working properly, I used iDeneb 10.5.6 but now on the advent of 10.5.7 rather than jump through hoops to update, I've decided to go legit (well, semi... it is a hackintosh ) and bought a retail DVD so that I can make my hackintosh as close to a real Mac as possible and hopefully remove upgrade pains.

 

I've been reading about this for a while but as with a lot of hackintosh advice, some is outdated, some very specific and a lot is very fragmented so please forgive me if I'm barking up the wrong tree with some of my knowledge.

 

In order to do what I want to do, I think I need to do the following:

 

1) use OSX86Tools to backup my kexts on iDeneb 10.5.6 to somewhere safe

2) Carbon Copy Clone OSX partition to another HDD (as a backup)

3) Burn Boot-132 CD and use to install retail OSX.

4) Try and get as much of the system working without the backed up kexts.

5) Install required kexts (and voila... working retail, updatable OSX system (hopefully))

 

My hardware spec that's working with iDeneb is as follows:

 

- Intel E6400 Core2Duo 2.13GHz

- Asus P5B Deluxe i965 s775 WiFi (2Gb DDR2 Mem)

- 4xMisc SATA HDDS

- 1xPATA HDD

- Samsung DVDRW SATA x18 S183ABEBN

- 256M Gbyte 7900GT NX79T256DBRH

- Creative Audigy Sound Card (using Azalia Audio Kext I think?)

 

OSX and WinXP Dual Boot, using Chameleon 2RC1 in an OSX boot partition on WinXP disc, OSX on another disc.

 

iDeneb works perfectly with two caveats:

1) Shutdown doesn't totally power off the PC, you need to hold the power button to power off after system shutdown.

2) Restore from sleep kills the Audigy soundcard (not bothered about onboard audio).

 

I'm happy to live with these issues for now and deal with them later.

 

So on to the questions:

 

1) Are there any "gotchas" or potential problems that you can think of with this method?

2) Will I be able to use an EFI string with my graphics card successfully?

3) If anyone knows the answer to my little sleep restore and shutdown issues, ideas and assistance would be appreciated (but not expected as this isn't the primary purpose of this post ).

 

I'm currently tidying files and making room for the OSX backup (can't afford to just by yet another harddisk at the moment ) so whilst I'm doing this I thought I'd do some research so I can do it "right" and hopefully minimise downtime.

 

Cheers,

 

Matt