Apparently it does seem cool to have Mac OS X Leopard running on a PC, a netbook at that. Well, at least that's what my roomie thinks.
She bought herself a new Asus 1000H and requested that I transform it into a Mac. Short of explaining to her that I really am not transforming her netbook into a Mac, since installing OS X is different from transforming her hardware into an Apple one. It would require magic and my powers were limited to hacking techniques I didn't even invent in the first place.
To cut the story short, this entire week was devoted to installing Leopard on her Asus 1000H. And boy was it difficult!
First, I only had the msiwindosx86 slipstream DVD installer which is customized specifically for the MSI Wind, not the Asus 1000H. But I still trudged on, crossing my fingers and hoping against all odds that it would work.
1 try:
I plugged in my external DVD drive to the Asus 1000, slapped in the msiwindosx86 DVD and rebooted. Darwin loaded but I got stuck at a cryptic line along the way, never getting to the graphical installation program.
2 try:
Again, I went scrounging the net for some clue and found out that you can't install OS X on the 1000H without flashing your BIOS with a compatible one that you get from here.
It worked. All but sound. And try as I might, there wasn't anything I could to make audieee work.
So, being true to my nature, I opted to do another fresh install as I thought this glitch might be caused by the fact that I didn't uncheck the patched kernel during install. According to the tutorials, it's important that the vanilla kernel be used if you want audieee to work.
3rd try:
Reinstallation success with the patched kernel left unchecked. But I got stuck at the welcome/configuration step, where I kept getting the Spinning Beach Ball of Death when I clicked on "Do Not Transfer blah blah" option.
I hit the net again, and found that I needed to interrupt Darwin during loading and at the "boot:" prompt, type:
-s
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
(entering each line one by one)
and the change root's password so I could log in to the system later.
passwd root
After several tries, and I dunno why I had to try more than once since it's supposed to work at the first try, I was rocking :D
I installed audiee, which was just a matter of dragging the unzipped app to the Applications folder.
And hop-la! We got sound! :D
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