Administrators Leon Posted October 29, 2012 Administrators Share Posted October 29, 2012 OK! SSD delivered. Now the funny part begins! Thank you for pointing me in the right direction (Mountain Lion no go). On this occasion I would like to ask one more time for advice: which flavour of OS X? My goal: do it fairly quickly, save time by not solving impossible problems but just by getting things done. Which flavour should I use? http://www.macgeekblog.com/blog/archive/2009/02/15/osx86-live-dvd-ipc-x-dl-1056.html Here is a guide using this ditro: http://robaldred.co.uk/2009/06/dell-latitude-d430-osx86-install-guide-using-ipc-ppf5-final/ Any suggestions? Please help... Dont use a flavour.. look in the menus .. there is guides.. right here.. that will give you vanilla installation.. your machine is one of the best supported for SL and Lion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefek99 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 LOL, I didn't realize Install OS X Using EDP! applies to my case, you can call it "three letter abbreviations paranoia" UPDATE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome (yeah, there is Wikipedia term for that) Thanks for help, that was really quick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted October 29, 2012 Administrators Share Posted October 29, 2012 The EDP procedure will give you a Vanilla OS X installation specifically tuned for your laptop model. You would never get that with a distro as distros are generic and you end up with drivers not suited and/or suitable to your specific computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefek99 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Do not see my SSD drive. From: http://myhack.sojugarden.com/guide/ Note: If you can not select your drives or you see nothing but the USB drive, go into your bios and ensure that your SATA device is running in AHCI mode. Alternatively you can try to install an IOATAFamily.kext as it will allow many systems to access SATA (and even some PATA) devices without the need for AHCI but it is not recommended. It is not the first time I'm having these problems: AHCI mode is available only to SATA drives. Your D430 uses a special ZIF IDE/ATA hard drive and does not have an AHCI mode. http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/disk-drives/f/3534/p/19440975/20151888.aspx#20151888 Next time (4th iteration) I'll put IOATAFamily.kext into your pack so I'll install extras only once... (Tomorrow, now go to sleep) <never expected this process to be walk in the park> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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