[Guide] Install Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on Intel D865PERL

[crazyJAT]

This is just a rough guide for now. I will clean it up as I go.

 

Steps:

1. Download the nawcom ModCD from here. If the link is broken, try here.

 

2. Boot from the nawcom ModCD and follow the on screen instructions for swapping to the Retail Snow Leopard installer disc. You will need to boot with the following boot arguments:

 

rd(0,0)/Extra/modbin_kernel GraphicsEnabler=No USBBusFix=Yes -v

This board has some issues with USB. USBBusFix=Yes is required to have a functional USB mouse/keyboard during installation.

 

3. Once booted to the installer welcome screen, click continue to go to the next screen. Now, select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu and setup your hard drive. If you want to dual boot windows, that will be covered later. For now, make your partitions. Click options... and make sure you are using MBR. (Windows 7 supports GUID, but that is outside the scope of this guide).

 

4. Now quit Disk Utility and return to the installer screen. Once you get to the screen with the Customize... button, click it and check Rosetta, uncheck Language Translation (unless you need them), and uncheck Additional Fonts (unless you need international fonts). Make sure ApplePS2 is checked and leave all other options as they are. Start installing.

 

5. Your system should now restart and boot up into Snow Leopard 10.6.0. The first thing we need to do is fix the audio kext. For some reason the permissions are screwed up on it when it gets installed by the nawcom modcd. Open up terminal and type:

 

sudo chown -R username:staff /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAC97Audio.kext

Where username is your username

 

Reboot again. At this point you should have working audio and networking.

 

6. TODO: DSDT

 

7. We need to backup some stuff from 10.6.0. Open terminal and type the following:

 

sudo mkdir /Backup.10.6.0
sudo cp -R /System/Library/Extensions /Backup.10.6.0/
sudo cp -R /System/Library/Frameworks /Backup.10.6.0/

 

8. Download the 10.6.4 Combo Update from here and the legacy kernel from here

 

9. Install the 10.6.4 Combo Update and without restarting, install the legacy kernel package. Now reboot. You should now be booted into 10.6.4

 

10. Update to 10.6.8 coming soon. I need a snack break...