My Snow Leopard Installation on a Dell 820

[big bartl]

Hi all,

 

as this is my first post in this forum, not my first post in forums at all, I want to share my experience with the installation of snow leopard on a dell 820 laptop. Feel free to give hints and comments to my experiment...

 

The current status is, that I am writing this text in the current running safari/snow leopard 10.6.5.

 

Here my actions I have done up to now:

 

1) Got the last release of I-Boot (tonymacx86.blogspot.com) and a retail Snow Leopard Installation DVD (10.3)

2) Disable the multi core support in the bios

3) Booting the I-Boot CD - changing to Snow Leopard Installation DVD and continuing with the installer

4) Partitioning the hard disk and starting the installer selecting packages etc

5) waiting while moving around with the mouse, see problem (1)

6) After shutdown for reboot changing again the disk to I-Boot and booting it again

7) Selecting my new hard disk partition and booting the fresh snow leopard installation

8) First JUHU, while watching the welcome video (GFX and Sound are quite OK)

9) Downloading the 10.6.5 update from apple and installing it

10) After reboot (still I-Boot) creating a time machine backup (This step is really useful and I recommend it for every "greenhorn")

11) Reading the broadcom ethernet thread - a really long one :-) - and at the end downloading the AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext

12) Copying the kext into the S/L/E Folder - fixing rights and ownership - clearing kext cache

13) rebooting (still I-Boot)

14) Cable ethernet online!

15) WLAN - ebay search for a apple compatible wlan card (my is the intel one which is not supported - I have found at the forum) - currently awaiting the shipping

16) Installing Chameleon RC5 by using MulitBeast

17) Rebooting - not working :-(

18) Back to I-boot

 

So this is the current status, my problems will now follow...

 

My Problems are (I will update this list with new problems, informations and solutions as long I will get/find them):

 

1) When once the screen goes in stand by it will just come back black (the backlight will be switched on again but this is all) -- currently switched display standby off

2) The Laptop hangs sporadically while the installation is running - no doubt why

3) DVD eject does not work

4) Restart does not work (some times it works but do not ask my when - I am still investigating); Sometimes, after hard power of the first time coming back again it restarts before running again

5) ...

[big bartl]

Found Lappy' guide and boot CD thread ...

 

However the boot CD is not working for me - While booting with this CD my D820 hangs (well not with kernel panic but with doing nothing) shortly after loading the network kext. When no cable is plugged it just waits - after plugging a cable in it fetches a dhcp lease and a ip address and waits after this step for whatever ???

 

So I am still using the I-Boot CD to boot the installation DVD and the first time to boot the system. After this a use Lappy's post install script to load the required kexts into the /E directory. This is working quite good for me. Unfortunately my DVD is still not opening. Well I have to investigate deeper...

 

So far...