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  1. Using myHack with a Bootpack from OSXlatitude to get Snow Leopard installed- should be old hat, right? The D820 I'm using has a busted screen- I'm using an external monitor. This process really has 3 boots involved- 1st Boot- from the USB pen- OK from the start. 2nd Boot- to the OSX SL installer... must use GraphicsEnabler=No, or else it gets hung at the "Aurora" Desktop background- but there is a mysterious region to the left that the cursor starts out in and can drive into, like a 2nd display... and that might have the "menu bar" and the OSX SL Installer screen. 3rd Boot- from the newly OSX-installed drive- hung at the "Aurora" just like in 2nd Boot w/o GraphicsEnabler=No, except I can't get that command -or any other- to prevent me from hanging in the Aurora! I tried GraphicsEnabler=No, "Graphics Mode"="800x600x32", "Graphics Mode"="1152x870x75", etc. When applied after the 1st Boot, these "boot prompt" commands seem only to act on the 2nd Boot. I'm betting the 3rd boot is looking at the ext monitor, and setting up a 2nd display just as it would on an ordinary Mac- and setting the main or "menu bar" display to the laptop- which is busted! This is not what I had expected- since the D820 didn't work that way in Windows- it probably a control panel set to mirror the displays all the while I used it! This site has a cmd-F1 keyboard shortcut for ordinary macs to mirror the displays on boot: http://superuser.com/questions/87964/ke ... n-mac-os-x I haven't been able to get any of these to work on the D820- but I'm not sure if and where the command and F1 keys are mapped! Which brings me to my question- Is there a way to have the System Preferences -> Displays -> Arrangement -> Mirror Monitors Box come up checked at the 3rd boot? I haven't stumbled across this yet when googling for such a thing. And it isn't all that urgent... the real install will be on a D820 with a working LCD screen!
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    MarkF

    -Where you are from/where you live. California -How long you have used a hackint0sh (if this is your first time, state that you are new to this). Trying to get my first one "off the ground" -A brief summary of your experiences in hackint0shing (if any). None till now... but lots keeping old macs running. -What triggered your interest in hackint0sh. Mac Minis (2006-7) look like Dell 820s. It's all Intel hardware now! -Your general computer skill level. Hardware engineer. -List any technical experience you have in various operating systems and programming languages (if any). Shells, scripts and such. -If you have any talents/skills that you would like to offer to help the community (optional). Make it go! But the one thing about this web site I haven't figured out is: Where are you hiding the "search boxes"? I thought maybe if I registered they would magically appear! But No! From the FAQ: >How can I search a forum or forums? >Enter a search term in the search box located on the index, forum or topic pages. >Advanced search can be accessed by clicking the “Advance Search†link which is >available on all pages on the forum. >How to access the search may depend on the style used. Style used? I was going to ask my questions about 10.6 on a Dell D820- after I had searched- it's an old machine and OS- this has all been done before!
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