"Hackintoshed" ATOMs & OS9 . . .

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

It's a serial port dongle and I only need it to run the plotter from a "plotter server" like my P6360/Crescendo G3.

I can set up the jobs on any of my y2k era Macs or my QS '02. Like I said, the emulator is just for Rainbow Logo Correctness! :approve:

 

[kite210]

If you need to find drivers for a hackintosh, I would try the Insanelymac forums, they have a lot of custom drivers for quite a few things that have no support under vanilla OS X.

Granted I gave up on Hackintosh around mid 2009, and haven't looked back since, but it was interesting to see Leopard running on a Compaq notebook.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Like I said, it'll basically be an ubuntu box, X and Sheepshaver will be on there for S#!$-N-GIGGLES!

Classic support available upto OSX 10.4.11 on PPC. OSX 10.5+ no Classic, including PPC systems

Thanks for that tidbit, which feline release would 10.4.11 be? :?:

Dumb@$$ Cat Names! It's almost as stupid as the PowerBook G3 No-Naming Nonsense! :

 

[theos911]

10.0b - Kodiak

10.0 - Cheetah

10.1 - Puma

10.2 - Jaguar "Stunning, Cunning, Always Running"

10.3 - Panther

10.4 - Tiger

10.5 - Leopard

10.6 - Snow Leopard

10.7 - Lion

 

[Gorgonops]

Thanks for that tidbit, which feline release would 10.4.11 be? :?:

Just to reiterate, in case there's any confusion, 10.4.x on Intel *does not include Classic*, so finding an ancient guide for Hackintoshing said first (public) x86 MacOS doesn't help in a quest to run OS 9 software.

I'm sure you know already, just... making sure since you asked.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Hence: Sheepshaver, Ubuntu & X!

 

[trag]

So if I wanted to Hackintosh my Dell Latitude D430 so that it could dual boot Windows XP or OSX, and I am very ignorant about Hackintoshes -- where should I start?

Is there a place that actually lays things out in order and makes it clear where to download whatever bits I might need? I have legitimate copies of Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard on hand to start with.

When I try reading some of the websites/forums about this it always seems like I'm in for a long research project of reading this bit here, and that bit there, and substantial uncertainty about exactly what needs to be downloaded and installed.

Or is that latter paragraph just the nature and state of going the Hackintosh route?

 

[olePigeon]

Probably at the OSx86 project website: http://www.osx86project.org/

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

IIRC, coius would be a good source of info on, I hate to misuse the term for a non-hardware hack, "Hackintoshing" CORE & ATOM systems.

 

[MacJunky]

I used to run 10.5 on my old E1200@3.2GHz&Rad3850 rig and I have installed it(but do not actually use it) on my previous notebook(aspire one) as well as current AMD based notebook and current AMD based desktop.

What olepigeon suggests is what you want. but be sure to use the forum and wiki instead of the odd hardware listing thing on the main site.

 

[trag]

The site that Olepigeon pointed me at lead me to one called OSXLatitude which is especially for folks putting OSX on their Dell Latitudes and the D430 seems to be an especially favored model. Thank you Olepigeon!

I haven't read through all of it, but assuming it's still around when I'm ready, I think everything I need is available at that site.

I really like the D430. It's a couple of generations back now, but it still has a Core2Duo even if it does only run at 1.33 GHz. The shape and feel is just really nice.

I picked up an E4300, the next corresponding model, with a 2.4GHz C2D. But I still like the D430 better. It's just nicer feeling ergonomically.

On the tech side, the D430 uses a PATA/ZIF 1.8" drive and has no built-in optical drive. The E4300 is slightly larger (fraction of an inch) in every dimension, a little heavier, and has the optical drive built-in. The E4300 also uses a standard SATA 2.5" hard drive, so it's much easier and cheaper to expand that, but I still like the D430 better.

Both models are coming off of leases and such right now and are widely available on Ebay.

Oh, so the thing that caused me to buy a Dell laptop? I wanted to get rid of the giant tower PC which was running my chip programmer and replace it with a laptop, and I wanted a fairly recent laptop. But I needed a parallel port. Both of these Dell models have docking stations with parallel ports on the dock.

So with a docked Dell laptop, I have a compact machine I can use to drive my Chip programmer (parallel port) or a modern FPGA development system (USB port) or a microcontroller development system.

The D430 works great with the chip programmer. I haven't tried the E4300 yet, because the docking station for the E is still too expensive.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Since I've started yet another whacky hack topic anyway:

It's time for some tangential twisting! )

EudiG! Where was the link you posted for installation of, and operation of the built in 3G Modem from, ubuntu/AMD on my Verizon Pavilion dm1? :?:

I can't find it in the forums. :I

trag, are those D430 Docks hitting eBay as well? What are decent price ranges for both . . .

. . . got FireWire too? That sounds like a great combination of I/O doohickies! :approve:

 

[trag]

Yep, the D430 and E4300 each have a 1394 port. The docks for the D430 were about $30 the last time I checked. I bought my D430 as a package from a seller with the laptop, docking station, laptop bag, a couple of AC adapters, Windows XP Pro (best for my programmer software), and other sundry. The 1.33 GHz is the fastest model. The 1.2GHz model was more common. And there was a 1.06 GHz model which I think had a single core.

There are a couple or three different docking stations. The one with the parallel port and a DVD drive built in is the "Media Bay", which is a very flat station like a slice that makes the D430 thicker.

I paid $225 for my lot back around April. Now the D430s seem to be around $150 - $170 but the price has been slipping recently. They were solidly over $200 until a few weeks ago. Watch out for the large numbers of models with no hard drive and no cable/caddy. The 1.8" drive is expensive to replace. The caddy/cable set can cost $35 all by itself, and a 120 GB 1.8" drive is about $80.

I found a 240 GB drive for $130 which I'm tempted to try. The seller claims it doesn't work with laptops, only media devices (iPods), but I think it will work with a sector adjustment tool. The bigger drives have 4K sectors instead of 512 byte sectors (IIRC) and there's a need to put the start of the something or other at the 64th sector instead of the 63rd and that's what the adjustment tool does.

The reviews I've read where folks failed to get them to work are consistent with this hypothesis. The drives seem to format, but won't work as bootable and work in external enclosures. Apparently this is a normal symptom of the advanced mumble formating, AKA 4K sectors.

Still, $130 seems like a lot of money now days for a 240 GB drive... Newegg had a 2.5" SATA drive for $50 with 750 GB the other day.

 

[24bit]

I had installed 10.6.3 on a Asus EeePC 1001HA recently.

Obviously it can be done with the Netbookinstaller/Netbook bootmaker packages.

BasiliskII and SheepShaver were installed on the fly as usual with OSX. SS´s performance on OS9 or 7.6 wasn´t even that bad, booting was rather fast.

Nevertheless I would not recommend Snow Leo for a low end netbook like the 1001HA.

Battery life was poor and the Eee´s fan was blowing permanently. WiFi was a pain most of the time with the built in WLAN.

For those hating XP, Mandriva might be an alternative host for the emulators, BII and SS perform less good than with Snow, but are quite useable still.

HAIKU might be worth a shot, but AFAIK there is only a BasiliskII build available.

 

[IPalindromeI]

Mandriva was discontinued and turned into madrieia or whatever they called it. I always hated it anyways; I prefer Debian based distros.

 

[bd1308]

Even better would be creating a linux init script to start Basilisk or Sheepshaver automatically (with X) before gdm loads. It can be done fairly easily, and you'll never have to see the other Linux stuff.

Compile a kernel and make it load in 15 seconds too

 

[sirwiggum]

I use an Acer Aspire One (Atom) A150 as a hackintosh (triple boot w/ Linux and XP).

Runs alright, not the quickest OSX machine out there.

As it is not PPC, 9 wont work without an emulator.

PPC application performance via Rosetta of Office X is not good, and ends up placing a rogue cursor in the document.

 

[gobabushka]

My "Desktop" is a hackintoshed Dell XPS M1530 running Snow Leopard, and it runs great, in fact it runs circles around my 1st Gen MacBook It wasn't hard to set up after I found the right DSDT.aml for it, but I have been considering switching over completely to Linux Mint.

One question though, anybody have any good ideas about getting dual monitors working properly with the GMA 950 under Linux Mint?

 

[sirwiggum]

Dual monitors as in notebook + external?

Should be straightforward once monitor plugged in. If not, your /etc/x11/xorg.conf will likely need "tweaked"

Not sure if this helps

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Script_to_toggle_internal.2Fexternal_display_for_laptops