the Valaraukar Logs of Relativity

Kiwi-hopping

Being told I need to hurry up and post these.  Sooooo, here is a few from the stash.

From Agaryulnaer

From Agaryulnaer

From Agaryulnaer

From Agaryulnaer

From Agaryulnaer

From Agaryulnaer

From Agaryulnaer

From Agaryulnaer

From Agaryulnaer

From Agaryulnaer

10.5.7

Not too hard to it turns out.  If you look it up first before trying it yourself.  Updating through OSX has you rebooting into a grey screen with black lines.  A few simple instructions later, and you have 10.5.7

Mini-OSX

Finally, after many many fails, I am now the proud owner of a Dell mini 9 hackintosh.  Now I just need to update to 10.5.7 with out screwing something up...... again.

Osx-ucess?

A new day, a new chapter in hackintosh-ery.  So after reading some more tutorials, looking for some new torrents, and a few more fails with TransMac, I finally got somewhere today.  Seems my 8GB USB drive wasn't quite big enough to fit the 7.6GB OSX disc on.  So I went and got a 16GB USB drive and what do ya know, not only did the retail disk fit, it went a hell of alot faster onto the drive.  Lesson learned:  Do not buy cheap, unbranded, flash drives off eBay.  Fail, fail, and fail some more.

So, to sum it up.  Opened TransMac, right clicked on my shiny new 16GB USB drive and tell it to format image to disk.  30min later I have a bootable OSX 10.5.6 USB drive.  And if you're using a 10.5.6 retail disk, you want to use this boot loader, DellMiniBoot123v8.02b1 .  Followed the instructions and 47min later, OSX is installed.  Reboot with boot loader and go through the setup process only to have it crash repeatedly.  Sooo an hour later after some googling, came upon a solution.  At the boot loader screen, press -x or -f and go through the setup process again.  Success? 

OSX-acalypse

All I have to say is ugh.  What a freakin' headache.  Not having access to a mac, or should I say, a non-hackintosh has proven to be extremely difficult for this project.  After going through several steps to try to convert files, transfer files, see hidden files, etcetera, I finally found a tutorial last night for Window users.  So today is a continuation of the tutorial.

-Download the app, TransMac

-Format USB drive with OSXDVD.dmg

-Wait an hour and a half for said format.

-Proceed with bootloader and freshly formatted USB drive.

Insert cruel joke here.

Time

Time to get this rolling.  Final parts for my apple netbook have arrived today and so todays agenda:

-Convert 8GB USB drive into 2 partitions

-Somehow get the OSXDVD onto the USB drive

-Start installing OSX onto mini

So far, still stuck with #2.  Time to hit google some more.

Oh and, hello blog world.