Comments on: How To Install Snow Leopard On A Dell Mini 9

By: "Macintosh HD" not in Startup Disk?

"Macintosh HD" not in Startup Disk? — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:32:39 +0000

[...] 02:32 AM Update: I did a fresh install of Snow Leopard by following this guide again How To Install Snow Leopard On A Dell Mini 9 | DailyBlogged The installation finished and said completed, but when I go to reboot it, it shows otherwise. It [...]

By: Scott BL

Scott BL — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:49:12 +0000

Will Snow Leopard Build 10.6.3 work? It seems that’s all you can purchase now-a-days.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:23:15 +0000

This was so easy… I was at 10.56… Now at 10.6…everything works very well from startup…. I have a 16G SSD….. about 3 more Gb of space left compared to Leopard.

Thanks.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:29:52 +0000

10.6.2 broke Atom support. You’ll have to reinstall, unfortunately.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:03:09 +0000

I followed these steps, and the whole thing went flawlessly: well done, and many thanks.

One of the first things I did with my new hackintosh, though, was to run a software update, which included about 800+ MB of OS updates. That chugged along for an hour or so and completed, but on restart now I’m getting a massive “kernel panic” error that I see described on other forums (with no adequate solution). The screen tells me in a number of different languages to restart the machine again, but at the top there’s an ominous message saying “Version mis-match between Kernel and CPU PM.” Restarts, understandably, have not solved this.

Any thoughts on a remedy? Or should I just repeat these install steps, and never again be foolish enough to run updates for the OS?

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 16 May 2010 05:52:42 +0000

I am trying to run this install process and it keeps failing on me. I get the grey screen that tells me to restart the computer.

I made and image of a Snow Leopard 10.6.3 OS Disc.

Also, will this process work with Leopard 10.5 OS Disc?

By: UnHeavyKevy

UnHeavyKevy — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:24:42 +0000

Awesome! It worked like a charm! I’ve looked around for months and this is by FAR the easiest and best guide. God Bless and thank you so very much!

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:13:59 +0000

Thanks for the guide – very straightforward, accurate timings (much to my surprise!) and I never realised it would be so simple to get it to work. I think reading the MyDellMini forums made it look harder than it really is.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:48:40 +0000

Yeah, this should work fine. It’ll be a little slow, but it will work.

By: charles

charles — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:02:19 +0000

could you run os x from a flash drive once the drive has become bootable?

you could use 2 flash drives, make them both bootable and load the install cd onto 1 and then plug both in the dell and choose flash drive 2 as the install location.

any ideas if this would work?

: )

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:42 +0000

It seems alright for me. What are the specs of your 1525 as they would attribute to choppy playback. Also, what software do the videos play choppy in? As for Snow Leopard, you can always make a new partition using this guide and then install Snow Leopard to it. That way, your current 10.5.8 install would go untouched.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:49:12 +0000

@Thomas – Yeah, you seemed to convey a strong message that SL is very unstable at the moment. I would like to upgrade, but “varied success” is hard to overcome considering 10.5.8 runs almost perfect now.

Is XVID/DIVX playback choppy for you… no one seems to answer me but it seems odd.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:02:23 +0000

It is if you have enough storage.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:19:31 +0000

Is it possible to triple boot like I did with my inspiron?
Cos im gonna buy the mini 10v soon.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:53:28 +0000

Our Snow Leopard guide for the 1525 has been up for some time now, though I do remember you were a little hesitant about installing it (actually, I told you it wasn't worth it :-p). However, you might want to give it a shot as users have varied success.