Groundwork
Started the preparation work for my Hackintosh project…
1. Downloaded iDeneb 1.5 ISO (the hacked OSX Leopard install disc)
2. Downloaded iLife and iWork and various patches
3. Download the necessary ‘kexts’ (equivalent of drivers for OSX)
4. Download BIOS update for the Mini
5. Ran the BIOS update, with the required reboot
6. Repartitioned the hard drive using Acronis Disk Director – created a new primary partition of 30Gb, unlabelled, no drive letter, unformatted, leaving 25Gb on C: for Windows
7. PC now shows a 25Gb C: drive, with no second drive showing. That’s good. Or at least I think it is.
My understanding is that the OSX install will detect the ‘other’ partition and let me select and format it as part of the install process. We’ll see, eh?
8. Realise I need an external DVD drive to actually do the install. Arse.
9. Hmmm. Thinks. Scratches head. Thinks some more.
10. Ooh, just remembered about a tutorial I read for a Dell Mini that lets you use an USB Hard Drive to boot the ISO from, wonder if that will work for the Compaq?
Got to go out for a bit now, but hope to make some more progress later tonight.
