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Snow Leopard Hackintosh progress?
Any updates on Hackintoshing Snow Leopard on the MIni 9? I'm very curious to see how that lightweight install will jibe with my measly 8GB SSD.
At this current time, they have gotten it to work on the Mini 9 except: Sleep, Restart and Audio. On the Mini 10v, it works except for Sleep and Restart. I'm sure within a week or so, those issues will be resolved.
As for the 8GB drive, I'm not sure. I'd recommend buying a 32GB or 64GB Runcore drive, which includes a mini-USB port for easy cloning of your existing drive, or installing a new build to it. The 32GB Runcore is now within a pretty reasonable price range, and has proven to be faster than the stock SSD that Dell installs.
I have read that the new "increased free space" on the Snow Leopard installs is due to the calculation of space being switched from base-2 to base-10. I imagine they want to use that going forward as it's easier for non-techie's to understand and makes it show a 250GB drive as actually being 250GB (warm fuzzy feeling). And of course the added benefit being the illusion that Snow Leopard takes up much less space than previous versions.
As for the 8GB drive, I'm not sure. I'd recommend buying a 32GB or 64GB Runcore drive, which includes a mini-USB port for easy cloning of your existing drive, or installing a new build to it. The 32GB Runcore is now within a pretty reasonable price range, and has proven to be faster than the stock SSD that Dell installs.
I have read that the new "increased free space" on the Snow Leopard installs is due to the calculation of space being switched from base-2 to base-10. I imagine they want to use that going forward as it's easier for non-techie's to understand and makes it show a 250GB drive as actually being 250GB (warm fuzzy feeling). And of course the added benefit being the illusion that Snow Leopard takes up much less space than previous versions.
The increased free disk space is not due to the change in base, as this would decrease (indicated) file size but also total disk size. It is due to disk compression. The (always deep, technical) Ars Technica Snow Leopard review details how this is done: the compressed file is stored in the resource fork to maitain backwards compatibility.
They also changed the base. People have speculated that the true amount of disk space you save is actually much smaller than what many people have reported. People reporting a 17GB savings and such are falling to the base change. The reports of 5-7GB savings are more realistic. But I digress...
I haven't tried to Hackintosh my Mini 9, but I am considering it. However, I will only do it if I can dual boot both Win7 and 10.6
I haven't tried to Hackintosh my Mini 9, but I am considering it. However, I will only do it if I can dual boot both Win7 and 10.6
I do not believe that to be the case, have since trimmed my snow leopard install to just 6.2gb, including around 1gb of apps dir. Performed with monolingual that performs similar steps as xslimmer and a few tweaks (disable sleep and remove sleep file, remove osx voice file). Even though I have a 16gb ssd, wanted to have as much free as possible.
Just and update, got my mini9 yesterday, typing on it now, snow leopard fully functional. 10.6.1 with sound/sleep, and seeing as this is my first netbook and first hackintosh, the process was very easy. Clone SL onto usb drive, patch, install, update to 10.6.1, install one ktex package, and disable usb legacy for sleep. Easy.
Will note however that it seems that sometimes the sound driver gets messed up, and sounds all of a sudden have static mixed in, however a quick reboot fixes the issue. Also, not positive that shutdown/reboots are clean, I've had it hang on me during my shutdowns. Again, I only got it yesterday, but getting snow leopard on it was quick and painless, here are the two threads I used:
Cloning and patching SL dvd to usb drive:
www.mydellmini.com/forum/general-mac-os-x-discussi...
Getting 10.6.1 and sound:
www.mydellmini.com/forum/os-x-snow-leopard/12699-h...
Also: weird saw ryan's original post show up in my feed as "6 hours ago," as for 8gb ssd: you may need to slim a bit out, easiest to give would be the Voices and printer drivers, take out a gig I bet..
ps: ryan, had the chance to meet you in tokyo back at the meetup in 2007! One of the few foreigners, blue polo, haha
Cloning and patching SL dvd to usb drive:
www.mydellmini.com/forum/general-mac-os-x-discussi...
Getting 10.6.1 and sound:
www.mydellmini.com/forum/os-x-snow-leopard/12699-h...
Also: weird saw ryan's original post show up in my feed as "6 hours ago," as for 8gb ssd: you may need to slim a bit out, easiest to give would be the Voices and printer drivers, take out a gig I bet..
ps: ryan, had the chance to meet you in tokyo back at the meetup in 2007! One of the few foreigners, blue polo, haha
