Snow Leopard OS X installation HELP! Gateway MX8710

[xxxrichievxxx]

Hello Everyone!

 

I have tried over and over many installations and instructions on how to make a Snow leopard bootable USB External Hard drive. But nothing seems to work.

 

I have a Gateway MX8710 and currently installed is Leopard 10.5.8, Which works perfectly (except wireless)

 

Specs about this notebook:

Gateway MX8710 Specs

 

I was wondering cant i just copy paste the current kexts im using on Leopard and use them for Snow Leopard to boot up and install?

 

if so where do i put them in? Extras folder? or System/library/extensions/ ?

 

I have just reformatted my Maxtor OneTouch III Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and did the whole Clicked on OSInstall.mpkg and installed it to my USB external Hard Drive. (took out some of the languages and printers because i dont need them), And i am ready to continue on

 

i need some help on what to do next xD

 

Thank you

 

I have iAtkos v7 installed

[delphinus87]

I did something similar to this with my PC. Others may frown at the thought of upgrading from a Distro to a Vanilla install, they'll claim you are bloated and don't know what Kexts you are using and what ones you have to replace if something goes wrong, but I've been doing just that for a few months no with no problems.

 

Your idea is sound. use the kexts you know to work with your setup and install them to your Snow Leopard. There's a few problems to that actually. What i think you're talking about is to install onto your USB Snow Leopard, then boot from Leopard and drag and drop Kexts from Leo to SL. What this'll do is erase any Kexts Apple thought to upgrade. This can be as small as your iPod not working to you KPing on boot, which is not a good thing D=

No, what you do is this. This worked for me, not guaranteeing it'll work for you, but it's along your lines.

 

Simply boot into Leopard, format your USB HDD, and proceed to Clone your Hard drive to your USB using a free app like Carbon Copy Cloner. What this does is make a perfect copy of your Hard drive so you can boot from it, and it'll be exactly the same as your Hard Drive. boot into to make sure it works. This is when things get very vanilla. Lets install OS X 10.6 from the DVD image, using the unmodified install. Crazy? Like a fox! (I'm having fun writing this post, give me a break ).

 

This you do while booting from your USB drive. we won't go installing to your hard drive just yet. It may say you have to restart while installing. This is why you don't install from your DVD, but rather you restore an image of the DVD to a flash drive and install from there (perhaps I should have made that a bit more clear?). You see why because it plants a little file on the flash drive to tell the installer where to pick up from. When you restart, boot to the flash drive and it'll want to resume an install, let it do this. When it's done, boot to your USB hard drive and (fingers crossed) you are booting into Snow Leopard! Yay!!! <fireworks>

 

Now, you should have a decently functioning SL with all of your old Kexts that you needed stuffed into a nice vanilla install. You might need a few new kexts here and there, but hopefully not. Now that you have this working, you could reclone your Leopard to the USB HDD again and follow these same directions to install onto your normal hard drive, but only do this if you a) are able to see your SATA HDDs and DVD drive from SL and are extremely impatient and want SL now! I'd do neither. Partition your USB HDD and clone your SL to the new partition. Overkill? read on, grasshopper.

 

Try to update to 10.6.2. If your lucky, you won't KP, but you likely will. reboot into your new 10.6 clone to make changes. You could hold a gun to my head and demand I update my computer to 10.6.2 again and I probably couldn't do it. It involves removing sleep enablers and smbios and fakesmc and other nonsense and other people have explained it far better than me so hopefully there'll be plenty of resources for you to use. I could help you, maybe, but do you really want my help

 

Remember everything you do to make it work, write things down on dead trees so you can do this again when we finally install to your main Hard drive. When you are finally ready to do this, take a deep breath and erase your working SL install (if your USB is big enough, you might not to do this). Then clone your now obsolete Leo partition to your portable and do everything you just did again.

 

*pant pant*

 

To summarize, clone your Leo to a USB HDD, upgrade to SL to make sure it works, then do the same to your Hard drive.

 

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... wow, thats a lot easier to understand

 

 

it may seem daunting, but I tried to include everything. hopefully you won't have to do half of this, but it's here if you need it. Good luck ^^

[xxxrichievxxx]

<br />I did something similar to this with my PC. Others may frown at the thought of upgrading from a Distro to a Vanilla install, they'll claim you are bloated and don't know what Kexts you are using and what ones you have to replace if something goes wrong, but I've been doing just that for a few months no with no problems. <br /><br />Your idea is sound. use the kexts you know to work with your setup and install them to your Snow Leopard. There's a few problems to that actually. What i think you're talking about is to install onto your USB Snow Leopard, then boot from Leopard and drag and drop Kexts from Leo to SL. What this'll do is erase any Kexts Apple thought to upgrade. This can be as small as your iPod not working to you KPing on boot, which is not a good thing D=<br />No, what you do is this. This worked for me, not guaranteeing it'll work for you, but it's along your lines. <br /><br />Simply boot into Leopard, format your USB HDD, and proceed to Clone your Hard drive to your USB using a free app like Carbon Copy Cloner. What this does is make a perfect copy of your Hard drive so you can boot from it, and it'll be exactly the same as your Hard Drive. boot into to make sure it works. This is when things get very vanilla. Lets install OS X 10.6 from the DVD image, using the unmodified install. Crazy? Like a fox! (I'm having fun writing this post, give me a break <img src="style_emoticons/default/happy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="happy.gif" />). <br /><br />This you do while booting from your USB drive. we won't go installing to your hard drive just yet. It may say you have to restart while installing. This is why you don't install from your DVD, but rather you restore an image of the DVD to a flash drive and install from there (perhaps I should have made that a bit more clear?). You see why because it plants a little file on the flash drive to tell the installer where to pick up from. When you restart, boot to the flash drive and it'll want to resume an install, let it do this. When it's done, boot to your USB hard drive and (fingers crossed) you are booting into Snow Leopard! Yay!!! <fireworks><br /><br />Now, you should have a decently functioning SL with all of your old Kexts that you needed stuffed into a nice vanilla install. You might need a few new kexts here and there, but hopefully not. Now that you have this working, you could reclone your Leopard to the USB HDD again and follow these same directions to install onto your normal hard drive, but only do this if you a) are able to see your SATA HDDs and DVD drive from SL and <img src="style_emoticons/default/cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="cool.gif" /> are extremely impatient and want SL now! I'd do neither. Partition your USB HDD and clone your SL to the new partition. Overkill? read on, grasshopper. <br /><br />Try to update to 10.6.2. If your lucky, you won't KP, but you likely will. reboot into your new 10.6 clone to make changes. You could hold a gun to my head and demand I update my computer to 10.6.2 again and I probably couldn't do it. It involves removing sleep enablers and smbios and fakesmc and other nonsense and other people have explained it far better than me so hopefully there'll be plenty of resources for you to use. I could help you, maybe, but do you really want my help <img src="style_emoticons/default/blush.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="blush.gif" /> <br /><br />Remember everything you do to make it work, write things down on dead trees so you can do this again when we finally install to your main Hard drive. When you are finally ready to do this, take a deep breath and erase your working SL install (if your USB is big enough, you might not to do this). Then clone your now obsolete Leo partition to your portable and do everything you just did again. <br /><br />*pant pant*<br /><br />To summarize, clone your Leo to a USB HDD, upgrade to SL to make sure it works, then do the same to your Hard drive. <br /><br />...<br /><br />... wow, thats a lot easier to understand<br /><br /><br />it may seem daunting, but I tried to include everything. hopefully you won't have to do half of this, but it's here if you need it. Good luck ^^<br />

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Sounds hot xD I'll give it a try xD!! haah thank you for the great info and for the Time you had to put this together for me ! Well not just for me but you know THANKS ANYWAYS XD Haha