- Booted and set-up XP. Trackpad really does suck
- 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
- Webcam works, speakers work, mic volume seems low
- 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
- 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
- Reboot using OSX install USB. Takes a minute or two but seems OK.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Installed 10.6.1, re-booted OK. Ran NetBookInstallwer again, set all Guide recommended checkboxes + Enable hibernation. Took awhile but re-booted OK
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Arrived Today
I got it and started the OS X install. Notes:
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Beginning
This blog is going to follow my experience installing Mac OS X on a Dell Mini 10v. At this point I have:
- Ordered a Dell 10v ( N270 processor, 1 GB RAM, 6 cell battery, 802.11n wireless and 160GB harddrive)
- Ordered a bluetooth card from eBay
- Created a bootable Snow Leopard 8GB USB stick using instructions at MechDrew's site
- Created a BIOS downgrade to A04 bootable USB using instructions here.
My plan when I get Dell is the following:
- Run it up using Dell's XP install and confirm hardware works (wireless, sound, webcam, etc.)
- Use some partition re-sizer (gparted?) and resize the XP partition to somewhere around 40 GB
- Install Snow Leopard per MechDrew's instructions for a dual boot unit in an attempt to preserve XP install
- Try it out
Based on the mydellmini forum I am expecting the following challenges:
- Waking unit on sleep
- Keeping BIOS settings
- Sound
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