Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Arrived Today

I got it and started the OS X install. Notes:
  1. Booted and set-up XP. Trackpad really does suck
  2. Rebooted and confirmed that BIOS is A06. Shows Bluetooth enabled but XP Device Manager doesn't know anything about it, assume it is not installed
  3. Webcam works, speakers work, mic volume seems low
  4. Booted with BIOS A04 install USB and typed R225278.exe /forceit /forcetype . As advertised. lots of beeping during install. Then it just shuts down! Scary but it did reboot and has A04 installed
  5. XP is currently using 8.28 GB, assume a 32GB partition should be fine. Boot using gparted USB stick. Resized NTFS partion ot 31.82GB and partioned remaining space (107 GB) as HFS+. Reboot and see if it will boot to XP. Looks like it does but wants to do a CHKDSK
  6. Reboot using OSX install USB. Takes a minute or two but seems OK.
  7. Looks like Disk Utility won't do what I want it to do, i.e. use the partition I set aside. Plan B: blow the existing partitions away and create one Mac OS paritition GUID boot not MBR
  8. Install starts, once it gets going it says it will take 30 minutes (at 13:22). At 13:32 it says 27 minutes but the progress bar shows about 40% done. At 14:11 it says 10 minutes and about 95% Done at 14:13, took ~40 minutes
  9. Re-booted and then it seemed to re-boot on it's own, spinning wheel right now started around 14:15. Started, followed the instructions
  10. Installed 10.6.1, re-booted OK. Ran NetBookInstallwer again, set all Guide recommended checkboxes + Enable hibernation. Took awhile but re-booted OK

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