[sim.:ps:.on.]

http://neuerdings.com/2007/11/16/mac...auf-dem-zwerg/
Wie ich aus dem Internet entnehmen konnte läuft auch MacosX auf dem eee.
Jetzt wollte ich mal fragen, ob das hier schon jemand versucht hat?
Wenn ja wäre ich über einen Erfahrungsbericht sehr erfreut.
Wenn nicht, werde ich selbst, nachdem mein 900er eingetroffen ist selbiges vornehmen!
Danke
[Hoffe ist das richtige Forum!]
uups. habe schon mal die sufu betätigt, aber nix gefunden. Jetzt hatte es was, aber eben kein richtiger erfahrungsbericht!

Spoiler:

Dans Methode:

Load OSX 10.5 Leopard on the eeePC
Posted in Geeky, Random by Dan at 12:04 pm

So, ever since I got the eeePC I’ve loved how easy it is to tinker with. Since I’m not a Linux guy, I dumped the Xandros preload and opted for Windows XP so I could you my EVDO USB datacard and blogging software easier, but I wondered could I install OSX on it? And, after trial and error - you can!

The only problem is that the eeePC only supports SSE2 instead of the SSE3 that Leopard is coded for. Kinda a bummer, and will require some extra tinkering to coax the OS on the eeePC. Thankfully Adam’s awesome tutorial over at Lifehacker provided an excellent foundation on how to do these hacks.

First, download the Brazil Mac Hack from OSX86 Scene. This patch helps you create a X86 version of Leopard you can install on generic PC’s.

Once that is done, you will need an DMG of Leopard, if you have a Mac you can create and Image in Disk Utility - just make sure your self created image is called osx-leopard105.dmg and it should be saved on your desktop. Or you can skip all the steps below and download Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard [ToH]-RC2 SSE3/SSE2 Intel Only from your favorite BitTorent site - scroll down to the point where you see Leopard is now installed.

Should you choose to create your own image and patch it. Quoting from Adam’s tutorial:

After you’ve downloaded the zipped patch files, unzip the archive and drag all of the contents of the archive to your desktop (it should contain two files and three folders in total).

Now open the 9a581-patch.sh shell script in your favorite text editor. At the top of the file, replace XXX with your username on your Mac (so that it reflects the path to your current desktop).

While we’re at it, let’s edit the 9a581PostPatch.sh file as well. This time, edit the fourth and fifth lines at the top of the file to look like this:

PATCH="/Volumes/LeopardPatch/leopatch/" # path to the patched extensions
LEO="/Volumes/Leopard" # path to Leopard installation

Save and close both files.

Finally, it’s time to patch the DVD. Open up Terminal, type sudo -s, then enter your administrative password (your login password). Then type cd Desktop and hit Enter. Now you’re ready to apply the patch. Keep in mind that you’ll need plenty of space on your hard drive to perform the patch. I had around 20GB of free space when I did it, though I’m sure you could get away with less. To execute the patch, type:

./9a581-patch.sh

and hit Enter. The patch will now execute

You will also need to download a patched SSE2 kernel from here. When thats downloaded, unzip it on your desktop.

Open up terminal and type:
sudo hdiutil attach -readwrite $path_to_patch_dvd -owners on

Where $path_to_patch_dvd is the location of the actual ISO on your desktop. The terminal will prompt you for a password, enter your user password.

Then the ISO will mount in read/write mode. Drag the SSE2 mach_kernel you downloaded before to the ISO and replace the existing file. Eject the mounted volume and burn to DVD.

This will then create a SSE2 compliant Leopard DVD.

Once the DVD is created, plug in a DVD drive into the USB port of your eeePC and set the boot order in the eeePC’s BIOS to read from the USB drive first. When the eeePC starts you will get a DOS like screen asking if you want to start the installation or hit F8 for options. Hit F8.

You’ll now see the boot: prompt. Enter -v -x and press Enter

After about 15 or 20 minutes the MacOS X graphical installer will launch.

Quoting again from Adam’s write up:

Format the install drive: I know that you’re raring to install now that you’re finally here, but there’s one thing we need to do first: Format our hard drive so that it’s prepared to receive the Leopard installation. So go to Utilities in the menu bar and select Disk Utility (if you don’t have a working mouse yet, you can still access the menu bar from the keyboard). Once Disk Utility fires up, it’s time to format the drive. Here’s how:

Select your hard drive in the left sidebar.
Click on the tab labeled Partition.
Select a 1 partition Volume Scheme, name the volume Leopard, and choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format.
Last, click the Options button and choose Master Boot Record as the partition scheme.
Now that your drive is ready, so are you.

Install Leopard: This really is the easiest part—just follow the on-screen instructions and choose your newly created Leopard partition as the install destination. Then, before you make that final click on the Install button, click Customize and de-select Additional Fonts, Language Translations, and X11. These components were removed so we could fit everything on the patched DVD, so we won’t be installing them now.

If you did everything right, Leopard is now installed. I didn’t seem to need to run any of the post install steps in Adam’s tutorial so I’m not going to write those steps up. It is highly recommended that if you are not geeky (or very unsure of any of the steps above), I suggest you download Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard [ToH]-RC2 SSE3/SSE2 Intel Only from your favorite BitTorent site.

I’ve noticed that Leopard is a bit pokey on the eeePC because of its slow processor and 512MB of RAM. I ultimately opted for a file called Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2].iso that I found on a popular BitTorrent site that seems rock solid on my eeePC.

Also for those worried that they will destroy their eeePC - You shouldn’t. Aseus encourages you to install Windows, which requires you to destroy the default Linux setup. They created an awesome bootable restore DVD which you can use restore the machine to factory settings at anytime. Just like brand new.

The eeePC is really a great hobbiest computer.

Questions or comments? Drop them in the post. I’m still tinkering with the OS, and will report back on what works and what doesn’t. Thanks again to Lifehackers excellent tutorial. Without it, I would have never been able to get past step one.

Die Antworten:

Spoiler:

1.

Ian

How rugged are the eeePC’s Dan? I’ve read the reviews, but after reading this, the only thing holding me back is that fear of cheap plastic.

Nov 15th, 2007
2.

Kevin C. Tofel

Great job Dan! One quick question: how much storage is left from the initial 4 GB flash memory after you installed Leopard?

Nov 15th, 2007
3.

dw

how about drivers? is everything working, like wifi, bt, trackpad, and so forth…

thx d

Nov 15th, 2007
4.

Dan

You know I should have actually looked before I installed stuff. I remember roughly 2GB.

Nov 15th, 2007
5.

damston

Adam says he still needs the osx patched dvd in the optical drive to boot, is it also the case with the eeepc? while i’m very excited with this, I surely don’t want to carry my dvd drive everywhere to boot :-)

Nov 15th, 2007
6.

Dan

I didn’t need the Optical disk for the finish… or for boot. Maybe it has to do with the sse2 patch.

Nov 15th, 2007
7.

Dan

The device is kinda solid. The only thing that bothers me is the keyboard.

Nov 15th, 2007
8.

Mike Cane

And everything works just fine? WiFi? keyboard? Trackpad? No glitches, crashes, or weird things?

How much storage space do you have left after this?

This has to be Hack of the Year!

Nov 15th, 2007
9.

Juan Pablo Pincheira

Nice stuff. But it’s true that OS X without core image & quartz and wifi (on a laptop) is really useless.

Greets.

Nov 15th, 2007
10.

Adam Pash

Awesome.

Nov 15th, 2007
11.

Roberto Mateu

As soon as I read that wifi works fine. I’m buying a “Galaxy Black” one at Newegg http://urltea.com/2456. If it doesn’t .. well .. probably getting one too.

Nov 15th, 2007
12.

jim d

So, don’t you feel at all bothered by the fact that you are recommending people go out and *steal* OSX? I have no problem with trying to install OSX onto 3rd party hardware assuming that you’ve purchased a copy, but telling people to go out on bittorrent and jack it is just kinda slimey.

Nov 15th, 2007
13.

Nicky

Does the onboard camera work with Photoboot?

Nov 15th, 2007
14.

Dan

Nicky - sadly no.

I’m gonna try USBWebcam and see if it works.

Nov 15th, 2007
15.

linuxuser

does wifi work?

Nov 15th, 2007
16.

Dan

If you try the hack and do go a BitTorrent route, I would expect at a minimum you would buy a copy of MacOS X. There are no excuses for stealing.

Nov 15th, 2007
17.

Branko Collin

“So, don’t you feel at all bothered by the fact that you are recommending people go out and *steal* OSX?”

Jim D, don’t you feel like slime yourself for suggesting that Dan is saying that? The way I read it, he used OS X from a Bittorrent download because it was easier than creating a disk image from his own copy of the OS. Or should he perhaps pretend that file sharing doesn’t exist?

By the way, it’s not called theft but infringement. The difference exists for a reason.

Nov 15th, 2007
18.

Alex

You gotta shoot a juicy video of it in action… does the external monitor work?

Nov 15th, 2007
19.

kornel

Dan,
What is currently not working? Our number one question is if wifi is working.

Thanks,
kornel

Nov 15th, 2007
20.

bill

do drivers work? video or wireless issues? sound?

Nov 15th, 2007
21.

Alex

Just curious, what was the final verdict on wi-fi?

Nov 15th, 2007
22.

Dan

Wi-Fi is sketch…. Working on that now. Gonna do another update tonight.

I’ll work on a video

Nov 15th, 2007
23.

JackandJohn

Can we get a rundown of the driver “support”?

Full resolution of monitor supported?

3D Acceleration supported?

Core Image supported?

All keys supported?

Trackpad moves the mouse?

Trackpad buttons do left and right-click?

Webcam works?
*No, not by default; still in testing

Built-in speakers work?

Exterior ports work? (USB, VGA, Audio in/out)

Card Reader works?

Built in Ethernet works?

Wifi works? (B? G?)

Thanks for forcing this through just to see if it works

Nov 15th, 2007
24.

Ike

What USB DVD reader are you using? I want to get the cheapest one out there for this.

Nov 15th, 2007
25.

sam

To “the Right Reverend” Jim D:
So, don’t you feel at all bothered by the fact that you come across as sanctimonious and holier-than-thou? Your pious preaching from your pulpit is just kinda slimey.

Nov 15th, 2007
26.

Doc

Thanks Dan,

The very first thing I thought of when I saw the eeePC was how long untill OSX is running. You could also install OSX onto a fash drive and boot from there.

***BTW Dan, I have been running OSX86 for sometime now and the best install I have found is one called “XxX osx86 10.4.10″***and it’s only a 1.86GB DL

Good luck and a video would be GREAT!!

Think I will pick one of these up (in black) when the 10 inch comes out next year.

Nov 15th, 2007
27.

Jerome

Whoa, just got today my eeepc, Dan could you tell me how the eeepc work with 10.4.8 ? is it quick enough ? does 1 or 2 gb of ram would help ?
I just wanna use it for web/email on the go but need to be not too sloooow.

Nov 15th, 2007
28.

xxdesmus

If you get the wifi working I may just buy a black one of these little beasts off of Newegg this weekend. Keep us posted, great work!

Nov 15th, 2007
29.

Ty

So i got the patched version of 10.4.8 that you mentioned in the article and i am confused on what my next course of action is. You say to skip to the part where it says “leopard is now installed” but if i skip to that part then nothing has been accomplished. Do i still need to download the SSE2 kernel or can i just skip to the part of installing it with an external DVD drive?

Nov 15th, 2007
30.

JACX

Hey Dan

Any comments on this release (10.4.10) ?

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=67279

I guess my concern is the point you mention first about SSE2 support.

Thanks

Nov 15th, 2007
31.

consolation

The “dvd-required-to-boot” problem is fixed by setting the osX partition to “active.” You can use the terminal or even a boot disk with the appropriate utilities installed. Eg acronis

Nov 16th, 2007
32.

Stephen

Good stuff Dan! A lot of readers are asking the same question: what works, and what doesn’t?
Top of the pile would have to be wifi and auto suspend when the lid is closed.

Nov 16th, 2007
33.

Stuart

Quick note - on a flash-based storage medium, using a Journalled filesystem is almost certainly a very bad idea: the use of a journal at least doubles the number of writes performed as data is written to the journal then flushed to its final location. Even with flash’ built-in wear-levelling technology, this will drastically reduce the lifetime of the part.

(I don’t know if MacOS supports an option similar to ‘noatime’ on Linux to prevent constant metadata updates, but this would also be beneficial. Additionally, disabling the new FSEvents system by touching a file named ‘/.fseventsd/no_log’ (see http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/7 ) will be another big in for longevity. Finally, some method of disabling swap or moving swap to a different location would help immeasurably - but probably isn’t possible. Constant use of swap files is probably what will, in the end, kill the flash drive. See http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/14/218235 for further discussion.)

Nov 16th, 2007
34.

Dan

So after much tinkering I seem to have the WiFi connection working reliably and sound too. Will post a step by step later, hoping to make everything a little easier.

Nov 16th, 2007
35.

mP

Way to go Dan!
I’ve been refreshing all night to hear that, but got impatient and ordered a black one based on your write up here. Keep the updates coming, i know a lot of people are really interested.

Nov 16th, 2007
36.

Craig

Did you upgrade the RAM? I was wondering if it recognizes 2GB RAM on the Mac OS?

Nov 16th, 2007
37.

Nitant Soni

SO Wifi works and Sound Works. Thats awesome

Does QE/CI work?

Does VGA out work?

Also whats the speed of Tiger? I am guessing, it must be pretty slow.

Thanx for the guide/review.

I Think I will go buy a EEE PC soon enough

Nov 16th, 2007
38.

gyffes

I am delighted with the eeepc AS IS but bought it basically to tide me over ’til Apple comes out with their own TinyLappie.

Given that the early rumors are that Apple’s gonna come out with a slimmed down Macbook (that is, retain the 13″ formfactor), this hack looks everbetter.

I have no problem with the idea of buying a Mac license but still using torrent if it makes the install better, but can I buy a TIGER license? I have oodles of Tiger DVDs laying about but they may not be the best choice(s) for this hack.

Dan, did you get wifi working by pulling the driver(s) off the Restore disc? How snappy is it with Tiger? Were you able to do Tiger by following the Leopard directions but replacing every [Leopard] step with a [Tiger]?

Thank you for showing the way.

And for those who ask: The eee pc build quality is AWESOME. And while the keyboard is small, in a mere 3 days my typing on it became QUITE fast. I’m now, however, having trouble typing on my Macbook ’cause my fingers had so easily adapted to the eee’s smaller footprint: Now that I’m back on the macbook (finally got it back from my wife), I can’t seem to get my fingers to relax enough to use either all my fingers or to spread out enough to easily type on what now seems a MASSIVE keyboard. I’m actually looking forward to resuming typing on the eee…

Nov 16th, 2007
39.

Don

Many people want Apple to sell OS X for pc’s, but in, the meantime, the idea of trying to hack your way in is just too much trouble and downright illegal for me. Interesting to know it can be done, but actually doing it is another matter.

Of course, for some, just being able to do it is most of the fun. Not for me; I would fear the wrath of Apple’s multi-billion dollar legal department, which, in my case, would be too much for this wimp!

I especially wouldn’t advertise or publish the fact if I did. You are obviously braver than I!

Nov 16th, 2007
40.

Hugo Ramos

Go get a life… and buy a Mac! You should bend over and pay respect to those guys at Cupertino.

Hugo

Nov 16th, 2007
41.

jim d

@SAM: My pious preaching is less pathetic than your piss-poor alliteration.

All I said is that it’s slimey to jack a copy of OSX. If you want to pay for OSX, fine. Download linux. Otherwise just buy friggin disc. Jeez.

Nov 16th, 2007
42.

Mark

Hi

Will be picking my Asus tomorrow. As a Mac user I’d love to put Tiger on mine. In simple(!) terms, if I go for 10.4.8, do I *just* replace it for the Leopard.img mentioned below (still doing the things mentioned before the comment about the 10.5 torrent? Or if I use the Tiger.img, do I need to do all those ‘other’ steps after that point as well?

Apologies if this sounds confusing - I’ve never installed OS X on any Intel stuff before!

“First, download the Brazil Mac Hack from OSX86 Scene. This patch helps you create
a X86 version of Leopard you can install on generic PC’s.

Once that is done, you will need an DMG of Leopard, if you have a Mac you can create and Image in Disk Utility - just make sure your self created image is called osx-leopard105.dmg and it should be saved on your desktop. Or you can skip all the steps below and download Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard [ToH]-RC2 SSE3/SSE2 Intel Only from your favorite BitTorent site - scroll down to the point where you see Leopard is now installed.”

Cheers … Mark

Nov 16th, 2007
43.

dave

I call BS until you show something other than a boot screen that may or may not be real.

Nov 16th, 2007
44.

RIFRAF

JIM D - I would say that your comment saying it’s slimey is ‘piss-poor’. Dan is just making it easier for people who might not have the technical knowledge in compliling their own dmg file. And yes, I would download the 10.4.8 version myself to just not deal with the headache. It’s a suggestion JIM so if you don’t like it, don’t use the image and give Dan a break.

Oh and by the way even if you do buy the disk, you’re still breaking Apple’s policy of loading the os on a system not branded ‘APPLE’.

Nov 16th, 2007
45.

Olli

Could you post some more pictures/screenshots of mac os runnnig plz? I really would like to know what it looks like on such a small resolution and if it’s enough to really work with it.

Nov 16th, 2007
46.

Adam

Dave,

if you check through some other sites you’ll see that other people have loaded this on thier Eee PCs as well.

Nov 16th, 2007
47.

Jessica

So how did you get Wifi going? Inquiring minds want to know

Nov 16th, 2007
48.

Bob

Agreed. Needs more picts of this running. I smell a rat…

Nov 16th, 2007
49.

diedvalar

Awesome! can you post more screenshots?

Nov 16th, 2007
50.

macnoobslol

sup noobs, eat some apples noobs lol terrible macs lol.

NOOBS NOOBS LOLOLOALOWLOWLAOWLL

Nov 16th, 2007
51.

spooky

I don’t know what’s real anymore; is this real, or am I lost in a schizoid waking nightmare?

Nov 16th, 2007
52.

cc

To Hugo Ramos: You are so so right. Everyone should go buy a 7″ mac laptop, not this crappy asus eee pc. Wait….mac doesn’t have a 7″ laptop? Well….I will stick to my eee pc.

Nov 16th, 2007
53.

Chris

Good work Dan, You’ve definitely got me tempted to do the same. Keep us as updated as possible, btw - would you recommend the eee pc even if you couldn’t get os x to work? it seems that even with windows or xandros it’d still be usable as a torrent box and/or porn box.

Nov 17th, 2007
54.

Josh

Hi Guys!

Just installed the tiger version! took forever!

What does everyone want to know?

Nov 17th, 2007
55.

Trev

Great work,

how are those step-by-step instructions coming along for WiFi?

Is there any way to do this install without an external DVD-rom?

Cheers,
/Trev

Nov 17th, 2007
56.

Sina

Dan,
I downloaded your 10.4.8 torrent… the installation went smoothly, but after rebooting os x kernel crashed… do you know why?

Nov 17th, 2007
57.

Doh!

@The Rev Jim D

“piss poor alliteration” ?!?!?

The lady doth protest too much, methinks. (with apologies to the Bard.)

As for WiFi it looks like the chipset (Atheros ar5bxb63) is flagged as a AR5006 or 5007) check the following:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=58154
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=60652
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=61260

went looking for an Eee today, but had to put my name on a list for Wed, seems they fly out the door the moment they come in, they’ve ordered 100, reckon they may get 50 and I’m 20 something. Here’s hoping.

Nov 17th, 2007
58.

Nate Williams

This might be a trivial question, but does ichat work with the builtin camera?

Nov 17th, 2007
59.

luvgranny

Hi Dan,

I have followed your instructions to install Os X Tiger on my eee, it boots after several trys, however I could not get the built in ethernet or the wifi to work. Would you be kind enough to give me some pointers.

Thanks

Nov 18th, 2007
60.

Nate

He showed the boot screen because its harder to replicate. anyone with a eee pc and a mac can use the VNC function of xandros to dial in to their mac and load a “leopard desktop” on their screen.

Nov 18th, 2007
61.

kocoman

I am waiting for the sse3 Merom version of eee in April 08. Leopard tells me it needs 7.5gb to install. How are you able to install with 4gb? I think the QC/CE does not work?

Nov 18th, 2007
62.

CH

Some genius needs to make a slimmed-down, EEE-optimized, patched tiger (or leopard) image, including drivers for WiFi, sound, etc.

Though I’m relatively sure that’d be a bitch to do.
And/or impossible.

Nov 18th, 2007
63.

andrewiswise.com

Will I be okay to try this install with an SD card as the boot option?

I’m looking at external dvd drives, but don’t want to waste the money on something I probably won’t ever use again.

Nov 18th, 2007
64.

Doh!

@andrewiswise.com

You don’t need a portable DVD player, just a USB to IDE cable, and your PC, (provided it doesn’t have a SATA DVD player) The catch being you need external power. So you pull the side off your PC, yank the IDE cable out of the back of your DVD player, insert the USB cable, and then plug it into the Eee, I do it with spare IDE drives all the time, The cable cost about $10 or so.

Nov 19th, 2007
65.

MaDTweakeR

Dan, are you still going to do a followup with more details on how to install Tiger? I tried using the DVD image you recommended (JaS) however after installation it boots up onto a blue screen and hangs, or it comes up with an all-screwed-up dark blue one with a spinning beachball.

Could you tell me which packages you selected from the installation DVD? I couldn’t fit them all in due to disk size and I might have left the wrong ones out.

Strange enough, the installer seems to work perfectly. It even accurately shows the battery charge status.

Nov 19th, 2007
66.

MaDTweakeR

Ok, I got it sort-of working now too with the JaS Tiger (for some reason I had to install the GMA950 as well as the GMA900 driver) but it crashes half the time when starting up and every time when shutting down (have to hold the power button to shut it down). Neither wired or wireless is working though.

Performance is OK though when it is running! Thanks for the tips in getting it going and if you would make some more detailed tutorials I would really appreciate it.

Nov 19th, 2007
67.

harry

will osx’s journaling system make the lifespan of the eee’s SSD shorter?

Nov 20th, 2007
68.

Graeme

Dan, do you have the hardware details for the built in webcam, just a make / model number will be enough.

please email to mr-biggles@hotmail.co.uk
Currently i’m running winFLP on my eee, but the mac tutorial does look rather fun

thanks

Nov 20th, 2007
69.

Eric J

Any chance you could show us some XBench results?

Nov 20th, 2007
70.

CH

Are you sure removing the partition labeled “BIOS” is ok? And when installing Tiger, what do we do lacking the “Options” panel, regarding the MBR? And is the name of the single partition we form important?

Nov 20th, 2007
71.

CH

Ok, I am at a complete loss for WiFi, the monitor not being at the full resolution is driving me wild, and I haven’t even had time to let the other non-working stuff bother me. I am running OS X, though, which is fun for novelty. But other than that, it’s crippled.

Nov 21st, 2007
72.

Doh!

You can set the default resolution in the boot.plist (or something like that, look it up.) This is a hackers novelty toy, it was never going to work out of the box, the joy was always going to be in *making* it work.

You’re essentially running a pirate unsupported operating system designed for proprietary hardware, on a feature reduced child’s laptop, based on the say so of some anonymous blogger. I hope this clarifies your support issues.

If you want full functionality go buy a mac, or wait for them to announce their new mini laptop.

Nov 21st, 2007
73.

CH

You made it sound SO MUCH FUN! And I’m completely serious when I say that.
(Don’t ask.)
I’ll probably get a MBP on Fri, anyways, but a slimmed-down, ultra-portable OS X wohld be really freaking awesome, you’ve got to admit.

Also, thanks for the boot.plist tip, I’ll give it a try.

Nov 21st, 2007
74.

CH

Ok, I’ve tried a lot to get the monitor working in full res. Anyone having any luck with this?

Nov 22nd, 2007
75.

jim

Ok. Got the boot dvd created. Eee loads the dvd but goes to a blue screen and never comes back. Tried the dvd on a “regular” laptop and it worked fine, OSX loaded. Any ideas?

Thanks

Nov 22nd, 2007
76.

Peter Payne

I know it’s asking a lot but could EVEN ONE PERSON ON THE PLANET EARTH post some kind of video to youtube showing speed, functionality etc so the rest of us can make decisions about how to proceed.

Nov 23rd, 2007
77.

Rob

Jim,
I found that I had to run the whole process twice. After the install, boot from the DVD again and run the installer again, but uncheck everything. The install button will say upgrade, but it seems to install some more items. I still have verying success actually booting the laptop, but it works when the boot finally happens.

Nov 23rd, 2007
78.

CH

Ok, I’ll give you a brief rundown:
Without advanced hackery (which I am incapable of), the following are not working:
Wi-Fi, audio, camera, mic, full-resolution, and laptop-type functionality.

Until all of these are fixed and are available in an easy-to-follow walkthrough, it’s absolutely pointless.

Not to mention that every single window outstretches the screen, it’s just too small. Also, all of the eye-candy of OS X slows to a crawl. Applications launch quickly, though.

Nov 23rd, 2007
79.

MaDTweakeR

The monitor works in full res (800×480) if you use the JaS installer as described in the article, and enable the extra GMA900 and GMA950 drivers. Unfortunately that version booted very erratically (sometimes it would take me 10 tries to boot successfully) so I gave up and put the default Linux image back on my EEE.

Also Ethernet, Wifi, Sound and Cam weren’t working so it was pretty useless anyway. But it was kind of cool to see OS X on my EEE just once

Nov 24th, 2007
80.

xxx

MADTWEAKER

Its because you enabled BOTH 950 and 900 dumbass….

You can only choose 1 driver…

Nov 25th, 2007
81.

cyberface

To the guys calling bullshit because the only photos so far are of the boot screen, I sympathise. The Eee hangs at the boot screen with the normal install.

However I’ve done some work and got the first stage - booting to the desktop - so it’s not bullshit at all, just needs some fine tuning.

Check out here

http://eeepc-osx.wikispaces.com/Screenshots+of+first+successful+effort

Nov 25th, 2007
82.

MADTWEAKER

@XXX:

Of course I tried installing only the GMA900 driver first, but it shows just a very distorted picture on bootup then, kind of like when the screen is smashed. I had to install both the GMA900 and GMA950 drivers to get any picture after the install. Maybe the 900 driver uses a file installed by the 950. And yes, you can install drivers you don’t need, they just don’t get used. Most people install the whole package of drivers, I just didn’t do that because of disk space concerns on the EEE.

Nov 26th, 2007
83.

CH

I wrote a more detailed guide for installing Tiger on the EEE, by the way.

http://eeepc-osx.wikispaces.com/Tiger_Install

(NOT MY SITE, just my page)

Nov 27th, 2007
84.

CH

I used this guide to write it, of course.

Nov 28th, 2007
85.

Sam DeRenzis

Are you guys serious? If I could get Leopard working I’d certainly give it a go, the thing is this hack is difficult enough on a desktop let alone a highly portable eeePC! I’d also have reservations about installing it given the mention above of:

“Quick note - on a flash-based storage medium, using a Journalled filesystem is almost certainly a very bad idea: the use of a journal at least doubles the number of writes performed as data is written to the journal then flushed to its final location. Even with flash’ built-in wear-levelling technology, this will drastically reduce the lifetime of the part.”

That’s pretty serious ppl, why would you install that instead of something like PCLinuxOS which has Beryl? Hell would Beryl even run on the eeePC? If that would work it’d certainly be damn cool IMO. It’s much more sophisticated and cooler.

So what will you do?

Dec 3rd, 2007
86.

Frank Tango

When are you going to post the wi-fi fix? I have ants in my pants!

Dec 4th, 2007
87.

Peter Payne

Sorry, this is very interesting and I’d like to know more, but no blogs seem to go back linking to this post. COULD WE HAVE SOME KIND OF UPDATE POST, PREFERABLY WITH VIDEO SHOWING SPEED OF APPS???

Dec 11th, 2007
88.

norm seplume

it’s slow to load, when it does. Once in the OS it feels like regular osx except when it’s animating something ( draws sliding out , genie effect etc ).
As long as it doens’t need to animate anything it responds & handles like my g4 ibook. I have a large yojimbo libary that I loaded onto it & it went fine, searches & accessing pages within it were no different to anyother mac I’ve used. Yeah & Dan the no wifi post is starting to suck

Dec 13th, 2007
89.

WOMAN

One thing I don’t understand is how in the world you are supposed to use the OS X terminal if you don’t have OS X….isn’t that kind of defeating the purpose? I mean, I’m installing OS X because I don’t already have it. So how am I supposed to access the terminal to apply the patch?

Dec 14th, 2007
90.

rish

Hi,
I was just wondering-to take the easy way out (downloading the image from BitTorrent), can I just download this on the Linux OS that eee PC comes with? What exactly would I have to do after I get it off of BitTorrent? Thanks,
Rish

Dec 15th, 2007
91.

Peter Payne

Okay, I am trying to put 10.4.8 on EEE but it’s not working. I downloaded the pre-hacked disc out there and got it to install by booting from the DVD-R, formatting my drive and installing. All went well, EXCEPT there bit about, click the disk name then Partitions, then the Options tab to select Master Boot Record. The Options button DOES NOT exist in the 10.4.x installer, even hitting the green resize button to make sure I’m viewing everything I should be seeing in the small screen.

So, I’ve moved ahead with installation. When I reboot though, I get a kernal panic every time. I have not been able to do any “post install tweaking” as was done in the original Hackintosh article, as the patches aren’t on the 10.4.8 disk image. I don’t know why it’s crashing although is the Master Boot Record a possibility? Not sure if it were a total requirement.

So to recap, I’ve got a pristine EEE PC with 10.4.8 (the hacked version) installed properly on it. But no “post-install” patching done (the stuff that some said weren’t needed in Leopard at least). I cannot see any way to set the internal disk to, say, GUID as it required most of the time, there’s no option button showing at all just Split, Delete, Revert and Parition along the bottom of the screen, above the disk information (SILICONMOTION SM223AC, ATA, Internal, etc.) I appear to be seeing everything on the screen, as I’ve resized it all properly.

So can anyone help me out?

Dec 16th, 2007
92.

Tom

I have installed 10.4.8 on an Eee successfully, be sure NOT to select the option called “most common hardware support”. It trys to load some stuff that doesn’t work on the eee. Unfortunately, the screen becomes 640×480, and wifi doesn’t work, and I haven’t tried a hardwired ethernet connection, but it might not worth either. So 10.4.8 is functional, but not very useful on the eee. I know your question was about the MBR setting, but I think that already defaults to the right thing from the disk image your downloaded.

I hope this helps

Dec 16th, 2007
93.

Tom

Reading this and other sites it seems that part of the problem is that the 900Mhz CPU is clocked down to 600Mhz. This apparently causes a lot of problems for OSX because it believes the system when it reports a 900Mhz CPU.

There are various fixes including an old Bios (8804) for the machine that allows a 100Mhz FSB/900MHZ CPU clock

See here.

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewforum.php?id=3

Dec 20th, 2007
94.

Timber

Dan, November 16th, 2007 - 8:00 am wrote:

“So after much tinkering I seem to have the WiFi connection working reliably and sound too. Will post a step by step later, hoping to make everything a little easier.”

How much later? I don’t seem to be able to find a solution anywhere….

Dec 21st, 2007
95.

AV Lover

If wifi doesn’t work, forget about Mac installation then…

Dec 22nd, 2007
96.

person

woooow…. ok then you guys need to chill…. those of you who don’t like the guide…. leave. I think its a good guide that actually helped me alot. thanks.

But what you do on the internet is your problem and no one else’s… so those who feel like getting into other peoples business just need to shut up.

anyways thanks for the guide.

Dec 22nd, 2007

[Mr.Tea]

Gibt hier ein Video welches OSX auf dem eee zeigt, da kann man sich in etwa die Performance vorstellen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arxdlBGolTE

Für mich ist es zu langsam, ein Betriebssystem muss reagieren wenn ich irgendwo klicke, wenn es lagt oder hängt raste ich aus
Schade, würde sich auf dem eee 900 gut machen..


Gruss

[TKL]

Hmm, schade das es so lahm ist! Das wäre noch ne Alternative gewesen. Ich habe nach einen kleinen Windoof versuch wieder Xandros rauf gemacht und arbeite über KDE Desktop. Das läuft schön flüssig und reicht im Grunde genommen vollkommen aus. Habe noch einen GB Ram Nachgerüstet.

[Mr.Tea]

Also mit Windows läuft der eee eigentlich auch prima, öffnet alles schnell ohne verzögerung..

Gruss

[sim.:ps:.on.]

Ich denke das liegt alles nur an den Treibern.
Habt ihr beide einen eee und hattet ihr mal os x drauf?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IC-eBL2p0E&NR=1

[kbatman99]

Hallo !
Gibt es irgendwo eine Anleitung und die Software wie man OSX am eee PC installiert ?
Bitte um Hilfe !

[a5T3r!X]

@kbatman99

Soll ich bei dir vorbei kommen und es dir aufspielen? Möchtest du das?
Ich kann dir natürlich auch meinen eeePC, mit OSX drauf, schenken. Wäre bestimmt vom Aufwand her noch günstiger für dich, oder?