fixarvesslan Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Hello, I'm very new to OS X and would love to try it out on my Dell Latitude X1. This is what i have done so far: - Burned the macosx_10.4.3_8f1111_for_dtk_userdvd.iso with the JaS.1111a.Generic.Patch.V4.2b.ppf patch onto a DvD. - Created an empty primary partition. - Attemped to boot with the disc. Then I get the "white-bg-whit-the-grey-apple-logo-screen" and the wheel under it spins around for a while, then the screen goes light blue, and the nothing happens. - Booted with x-flag, same result. Is there anyone out there who has installed OSX86 on a X1, or anyone who can think of what might be wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 i tried it, but gave up in the end so if it is possible i really would like to know installtion tels me the hardware is not compatable.. i think its the cpu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foureight84 Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 hmm i don't think it's a cpu problem. pentium m machines can run osx. check out this post. this guy was able to install it on his latitude x1. http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...&hl=latitude+x1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fixarvesslan Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 i tried it, but gave up in the end so if it is possible i really would like to know installtion tels me the hardware is not compatable.. i think its the cpu Yeah I got that to, but make sure you have the patched iso and that you have created an empty primary partition and Darwin should at least let you boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foureight84 Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Yeah I got that to, but make sure you have the patched iso and that you have created an empty primary partition and Darwin should at least let you boot. hmm i didn't see your last comment in that post i linked to. i guess it doesn't work with the latitude x1 after all. darn it! i just bought a latitude and was hoping to be able to try 10.4.3 on it. i'll try installing it anyway when my x1 arrives. btw, what's your opinion about the x1, good laptop overall? perhaps osx doesn't work on the x1 is because the cd-rom drive is external usb and maybe it's not supported or there's a bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fixarvesslan Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 hmm i didn't see your last comment in that post i linked to. i guess it doesn't work with the latitude x1 after all. darn it! i just bought a latitude and was hoping to be able to try 10.4.3 on it. i'll try installing it anyway when my x1 arrives. btw, what's your opinion about the x1, good laptop overall? perhaps osx doesn't work on the x1 is because the cd-rom drive is external usb and maybe it's not supported or there's a bug. Well I'm quite sure that it is possible, I have seen posts where people are having post-install problems on thier X1s. Overall I love it! You don't even notice that you have it in your bag, and with 1280 mb ram it feels really smooth. If anyone has installed osx on their X1, could you please tell me if I shoud have some additional flags when booting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 hmm i didn't see your last comment in that post i linked to. i guess it doesn't work with the latitude x1 after all. darn it! i just bought a latitude and was hoping to be able to try 10.4.3 on it. i'll try installing it anyway when my x1 arrives. btw, what's your opinion about the x1, good laptop overall? perhaps osx doesn't work on the x1 is because the cd-rom drive is external usb and maybe it's not supported or there's a bug. i love my x1 it's so small and light, makes no noise at all and its fast enough . it has a low voltage cou, not a normal pentium m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fixarvesslan Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 Ok, so I got the installation going. I followed this guide: http://www.profit42.com/guides.php?id=1 but i forgot to set the partition active. So I installed Partition Magic and went trough those steps aswell and voila, the installation popped right up. Hope this helps some of you. Now I'll just wait and see how many lovely problems that will show up during/after install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fixarvesslan Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 Well that went well... The install started up and it started to copy the files. Then at 70% or something it gave an error message, nothing specific just that an error ocurred during installation end that I had to try again. Has anyone seen this problem before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 install with -v and see why it stops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fixarvesslan Posted January 26, 2006 Author Share Posted January 26, 2006 Now I cannot even get the graphical installer to run anymore. Does anybody have a clue what i should do? Shoot myself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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