- Mar 19, 2009 The Kitch has also written about installing Mac OS X on a Lenovo S10 or a Dell Mini 9 and the everyday Mac netbook. The menooB Hackintosh tutorial for installing a Mac Leopard OS X Retail DVD on a PC might also be useful.
- Hi all, Can anyone help me out by providing information on installing mac os x in the s10. I tried to google but I cudnt really understand the tutorials, specifically the part where it requires a mac machine to format the USB stick with 'MSIWindOSx86.iso' file using ddmac.exe.The problem is I dnt have a mac anywhere near me or my pals.
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Well, I managed to turn my S10 into a hackbook running OS X 10.5.6. It’s been quite a journey, but I’m pretty much all the way there. I followed the step-by-step found at http://www.netbooktech.com/2008/10/13/guide-to-installing-os-x-on-lenovo-ideapad-s10/ which got me most of the way there, but there were some niggling things I wanted to work that I had to look high and low for. One of my issues was 2 finger scroll on the Synaptics touchpad. I finally did get that working with this link http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=88811 but I still can’t get sleep to work without disabling USB. At this point I want USB more than sleep, so no sleep for me now. I did have sleep working for a while and it was fantastic, but needed USB so had to revert to the old USB kext.
So how hard is this? Let me say this…it’s not for the faint of heart. It took me a long time and a lot of “grief”, but in the end I think it’s worth it. Don’t try this at home kids if you don’t have a couple of days and the desire to do a lot of Googling. I consider myself to be pretty technically capable, and I had some help from a friend who is not only *very* technically competent, but also has a Mac.
So, there it is…my experience making my Lenovo S10 netbook into a hackbook. It was an incredible learning experience and I’d do it again in a heartbeat (in fact I already had to after installing some kexts and running into a deadly kernel panic). If you have some patience, some smarts, some technical ability, and want a cheap and pretty cool hackbook, go for it. If not, then stick with XP.
TTFN,
Mark
The most easiest laptop in the world to install snow leopard on it is the S10. 1-Just restore you snow leopard DVD to an external drive through disk utility in your OS X 2-Install S10 Enabler into that partition. 3-Install snow leopard from here. If you don’t have a mac you can follow this 1.
EDIT – For sleep with USB I followed all of the instructions, but I was editing the kext files with the GUI Textedit app and that was my problem. I had to use the disk utility to repair the permissions on my drive, and voila – perfectly functioning sleep and USB. It took a lot of digging to find that little trick, so hopefully someone else finds it helpful.
If you want OS X running on your Lenovo S10 then a retail copy of Snow Leopard and the Snow Leopard Enabler are clearly the way to go. So far pretty much everything seems to work except sleep and ethernet (though I’ve not tried the latter) on my S10-2. Crucially, sound does work. The web cam even works in PhotoBooth if you crank up iChat first and tick the menu option to show video effects first.
I previously had a triple-boot thing with OS X, Windows XP Home Edition and Ubuntu Netbook Remix going on, but I realised there wasn’t much I wanted to do in Linux that I couldn’t do in OS X or Windows – so I decided to simplify it a bit and make the machine a bit more elegant. Instead of a text menu I would have a machine that would boot into OS X without delay unless I told it I wanted to go into Windows – as I will be using OS X almost all the time.
An easy, elegant way to switch between Windows and OS X is to use Apple’s Darwin bootloader – but when I wiped the disk and reinstalled both operating systems I found that the OS X bootloader couldn’t see Windows, only OS X. Configuring the Darwin bootloader seems to be a dark art, and there’s not much info on the web. But I discovered that the order you install them in seems to matter. Here’s how I got it working.
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1) Wipe the whole hard drive clean. Do this by booting off your OS X install USB stick, use Disk Utility to partition the disk in 2 parts. I have a 250GB hard drive in my IdeaPad. I made the 1st partition 160GB OS X, HFS+ MacOS Journalled, using Master Boot Record. I left the rest of the disk blank and I did not install OS X at this point.
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2) I booted off a WindowsXP Home Edition install CD and made a 15GB NTFS partition in the free space and installed Windows on it. (I found that making FAT32 partitions in Apple Disk Utility seemed to give me disk errors when it came to installing Windows, even if I made it NTFS later, so it’s best to get the Windows installer to make the Windows partition.)
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3) I then booted off the OS X install USB stick again and installed OS X on the OS X / Mac-formatted 160GB partition.
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4) When you reboot the machine will go into OS X unless you press F8 on startup – just after the Lenovo splash screen and just before the Apple logo.
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And you get two logos – cursor left or right to choose the OS you want to boot from.
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Next I plan to use some of the spare space to make a FAT32 disk I can use to swap data between OS X and Windows. And maybe leave a sliver free for Linux in the future…