scott0482 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 I recently acquired a D620 and ghosted our standard XP image onto it and have been using it for a few weeks. Then I was tasked with upgrading an iMac from 10.4.11 to Snow Leopard. I thought I could just download some updates and get it there, but then realized they have to buy Snow Leopard. But then I realized it was $30 so I figured, why not put this on my D620 so I can experiment. So that is what I am thinking. I want to Dual Boot however. I briefly read a few things and think I know where to start. If someone could give a very basic outline of what to do, I think I can get the specifics down. I have a WD 120gb sitting on the desk next to me. I have a usb to sata dual hard drive dock. I have external usb hard drives I could load an image to I do not have a usb thumbdrive larger than 4 gb.. I can drive to best buy tonight and scoop up the OSX cd for $30. So I think what I want to do is the following: 1. Burn CD made from D620SLV1.iso 1a. ? change bios settings on laptop (Do I need to, and which ones?) 2. Boot from cd, eject, put in SL cd, hit f5 until it works 3. Install OSX and figure out how to give it a 40gb partition (should that be enough?) 4. Whatever else it says in here: http://www.r2x2.com/users/lsb/weblog/1b8db/ 5. ? Boot from Windows 7 DVD, install to a 2nd 40gb partition ? 6. ? What file system should the rest of the drive be? http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive do I make it mac format and put this on the windows partition? is there free software to read mac partition on PC? Thanks in advance Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Leon Posted February 16, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 16, 2011 Hey Scott, Goto www.osxlatitude.com - there is guides for everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott0482 Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 I am posting from my Hackintosh it took maybe 45 minutes to install. osx install said approx 25 minutes left most of the time.. so yeah, i have a d620 with snowleopard 10.6.3 i am downloading 1gb of updates right now. any may to make multi-touch or side scrolling work on the touchpad? i plugged in my iphone and i do not see it in finder is something missing? usb driver? i was going to copy the pictures of took of the install and post them on the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott0482 Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 I am trying to upgrade /Extra. .. tada.. we are done with first part... Upgrading /Extra... 1. Remove your "/Extra" folder (remember todo a backup) 2. Download the attached extra.zip (yes, from the link above..) and unzip it to /Extra 3. Open up a "Terminal" (Applications/Util.../Terminal) 4. start by typing "sudo su" [ENTER] ... enter your password and hit [ENTER] (yes, without the " ") 5. type: cd /Extra [ENTER] 6. type: ./edptool.command [ENTER] 7. Follow the instructions (READ EVERYTHING) when i get to ./edptool.command it says "No such file or directory" I downloaded a few of the extra.zip files and none of them have that edptool.command file in them. what do i do? I restarted and the touchpad doesn't work.. i am going to try to put back the old extra folder.. i put back the old /Extra folder and touchpad works again.. of course i want the scroll which apparently is part of that modified extra folder.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thund3rbolt Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 hey scott .. how are you unziping the file? I take it you are just using the macosx to unzip? Just copy and past the current /extra then delete /extra. That will leave you with a /Extra Copy folder. Then use macosx to expand the extra.zip on your desktop and drag it to the root folder. Then open /extra and click on edp.command -- should work since it's working for everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott0482 Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 (edited) I just double clicked the extra.zip file from firefox downloads and it automatically unzipped into my "downloads" folder. then i renamed the /Extra folder to Extra.old and moved the one I unzipped to the root of my HackintoshHD I did not see edptool.command in there.. but maybe edp.command was and I didn't see it. I have bigger problems now. I installed 10.6.6 update and my wifi is gone now. Any way to get that back? I have the broadcom card. I see in your signature that you are running 10.6.6, so there is hopefully a way to fix this. Also, touchpad now shows up in the preferences, but it says no touchpad is connected. Hopefully I can try replacing /Extra again and looking for anything that ends in .cmd or .command and running it. I downloaded this Extra.zip btw. 30th. November - 2010 - Version 1.4 released http://www.osxlatitude.com/groups/d4xosx/wiki/a92b0/attachments/0dbea/Extra.zip I just downloaded it on my windows computer and am looking in the zip file.. there is no edp.command or edptool.command in there. rebuild_mkext.command is in there Also, i notice there are 2 main folders in that zip file, which i didn't notice in osx. Extra and _MACOSX So something seems to be missing in the instructions.. looks like i found the solution to the wireless: http://www.osxlatitude.com/groups/d4xosx/wiki/98753/Rebranding_Broadcom_80211abgn_Cards_as_Airport.html so i had to install my linksys wireless card as "Ralink" to make it work in Windows7 and now i have to change this broadcom to an apple airport.. fun stuff. Edited February 17, 2011 by scott0482 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thund3rbolt Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Bingo, I have found your problem. Do not have firefox unzip the file! Download as a zip, then open the downloads folder and double click it from there.I think firefox is not unzipping properly. It's the same thing if you were to unzip from a windows box. It doesn't retain the heir-achy properly. All your problems should go away like a bad dream once you get that extra folder unzipped and installed properly. Run the edptool.command and select no power management as well. note: If you are still having trouble use safari to get the file. I just double clicked the extra.zip file from firefox downloads and it automatically unzipped into my "downloads" folder. then i renamed the /Extra folder to Extra.old and moved the one I unzipped to the root of my HackintoshHD I did not see edptool.command in there.. but maybe edp.command was and I didn't see it. I have bigger problems now. I installed 10.6.6 update and my wifi is gone now. Any way to get that back? I have the broadcom card. I see in your signature that you are running 10.6.6, so there is hopefully a way to fix this. Also, touchpad now shows up in the preferences, but it says no touchpad is connected. Hopefully I can try replacing /Extra again and looking for anything that ends in .cmd or .command and running it. I downloaded this Extra.zip btw. 30th. November - 2010 - Version 1.4 released http://www.osxlatitu...0dbea/Extra.zip I just downloaded it on my windows computer and am looking in the zip file.. there is no edp.command or edptool.command in there. rebuild_mkext.command is in there Also, i notice there are 2 main folders in that zip file, which i didn't notice in osx. Extra and _MACOSX So something seems to be missing in the instructions.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott0482 Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 I hope that works.. I just used winzip and winrar to unzip the file on my PC and it is the same as if i use windows to do so. are you totally sure that the file i am looking for is in that "extra.zip" that i linked to above? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thund3rbolt Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Okay 2 things: 1 Do NOT unzip from a PC running windows ( period) .. it's a mac osx file in journarled filesystem. Windows doesn't know what the hell to make of it! That's why yer seeing _MACOSX dir. Unzip mac specific files on a mac. 2 I checked this edp release -- very old the command you would use is in fact rebuild_mkext.command. If you would like to use a newer release which I recommend then procceed to item 3 3 Extra.zip edp 1.5 rc6 ( please keep in mind this is beta) and yes the command issued will be edptool.command. I hope that works.. I just used winzip and winrar to unzip the file on my PC and it is the same as if i use windows to do so. are you totally sure that the file i am looking for is in that "extra.zip" that i linked to above? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thund3rbolt Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Off to get some Zzz Scott - Good luck and if yer still stuck I'll catch up with u 2morow. ^5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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