Are there any kits/guides/installers for the D620?

[darnocs]

I got an old D620 and wanted to Hackintosh it. I don't see any live links to .ISOs or such things. Any pointers?

[Hervé]

Hello @darnocs.

 

As per our posted forum rules, distros never were supported at OSXLatitude so we're not going to start now... Look elsewhere if that's what you're after.

 

The old and obsolete D620, whether with GM950 or nVidia NVS110M graphics, can natively run 2009 Snow Leopard and 2011 Lion in 32bit kernel mode. With the MLPF hack, they can run 2012 Mountain Lion in 32bit kernel mode. Today, all of these old OS X versions are totally obsolete and, unless you only use old software, you won't be able to do much with them; even basic Internet browsing will hardly be working due to compatibility issues. All subsequent OS X versions up to El Capitan are 64bit only and therefore have no support for GMA950 or NVS110M graphics. macOS versions cannot be run since they require Penryn CPUs at minimum and the D620 is Merom only. See here and here for further details about compatibility.

 

This being said, if you have a Mac or a Hackintosh at hand, you may create a myHack installer with a retail version of SL or Lion. Failing that, provided you have a retail copy of SL 10.6, 10.6.3 or 10.6.8 (DVD or USB key), you can use Nawcom's old ModCD tool to boot your D620 and install Snow Leopard. From there on, you may create a myHack installer for Lion or Mountain Lion.

• Full bootpacks for D620 are available here.
• Nawcom's ModCD is available here. A step-by-step installation method on a D430 is detailed here (just forget the old and defunct EDP part).
• myHack is available here.
• Lion and Mountain Lion can be downloaded directly from Apple's web site as posted here.
• Guides for MLPF'ed Mountain Lion installations are available here and here.

We've got tons of old threads related to installing and running Snow Leopard/Lion/Mountain Lion on these old D Series laptops, just browse the forum and use the available Search facility.