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23-Oct-2009

Posted by : Stephane THIRION

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Apple Snow Leopard on Asus EEEpc 1000HE

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This is a simple “how to” install Apple Mac OS Snow Leopard on a netbook Asus EEEPc 1000HE

What you need:

  1. EEEPC 1000HE
  2. A working Mac with SnowLeopard installed
  3. An external harddrive or USB key
  4. A Snow Leopard install DVD : only 29$ http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC223?mco=MTAyNTQwMjU

Downloads:

  1. Kexts from rcfa at http://www.zshare.net/download/66089613f77ee41a/
  2. NetbookInstaller at http://code.google.com/p/netbook-installer/downloads/list
  3. SuperDuper disk cloner at http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

Simple steps:

  1. Format the USB drive with GUID format (e.g. with DiskUtility)
  2. Install SnowLeopard on external USB drive using the working laptop
  3. Boot from external USB drive, perform all upgrades, e.g. to 10.6.1, software installs (XCode etc). You could do this on the EEEPC, too, but most likely it’s much faster on your SnowLeopard machine.
  4. Download and install SuperDuper.app on the external disk
  5. Boot from external USB drive, start NetbookInstaller and set up basic extensions and Bluetooth with the target volume being the EXTERNAL disk (if you pick the wrong disk you regular mac will stop working)
  6. Install kexts: Install these with kext Helper (to /System/Library/Extensions, not /Extra) and copy dsdt.aml, dsdt.dsl, smbios.plist, com.apple.Boot.plist to /Extra.
  7. Now, plug the USB drive into your EEEPC and boot from the external drive. You should have a working Hackintosh (albeit a bit slow).
  8. Format the internal disk in GUID format, I made 2 partitions 80Gb each and GUID the second one.
  9. Clone the external disk to the internal one using SuperDuper.app. This will take a loooong time.
  10. Start NetbookInstaller.app again and perform the same installs as above but now on the INTERNAL disk of your EEEPC.
  11. Reboot …

I found this how to on Small Computing, Ijust made some change to adapt it and I’ve tested it with success

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Comments (30)

moldor said on 27-10-2009

Got everything onto the EeePC, when I run the Netbook Installer again it gets to “Installing Power Management Bundle” and the progress bar stops there. Hard drive light still flickers, but after 15 minutes no sign of it finishing.

Also, in point 10, when you say “same installs” – do you mean those described in point 5 or point 6 ?

moldor
chris said on 27-10-2009

Mine did the same thing when I started Netbook Installer. Which options should be selected when I run it again?
moldor said on 27-10-2009

On the page where you downloaded NetbookInstaller there;s another program called NetbookBootMaker2 – I downloaded that, on the off-chance that it would do a better job and it appears to.

I nuked my hard drive last night when installing a Leopard utility (changes the black Apple logo on the top menu bar to a striped one) and Finder now refuses to load, so I’m re-imaging it today (fortunately I have the image on a portable hard drive !!)

Apart from that I’m happy with OS X on the 1000HE – next trick is to triple boot it (OS X, Windows 7 and Debian Linux), just as an experiment.

I also have an old HP TC1100 Tablet PC that I’m going to try OS X on today – now THAT will piss a few people off if I can get it to work !!!
Stephane THIRION said on 28-10-2009

Well Done Moldor :) and thx for the tip !
moldor said on 28-10-2009

I cannot get the NetbookInstaller to run without crashing – the NetBookBootMaker, on the other hard, works perfectly
Geoff said on 06-11-2009

Did you get wifi working?
moldor said on 07-11-2009

Using NetBookBootMaker everything works perfectly – wifi, bluetooth, webcam, ethernet, sd card – the lot.

Unfortunately my wife has put a small but significantly deep scratch on the screen with a pair of scissors (threw them to me rather than handing them !), so I’m up for a new screen if it annoys me too much – and it does !
Stephane THIRION said on 07-11-2009

wow, Moldor, you have a dangerous life in front of your computer :)

moldor said on 07-11-2009

Yeah – well, I asked her to throw them to me, expecting them to land on the coffee table next to me, but she tried to land them in my lap. They bounced, and ….

Interesting part is the guys I bought the 1000HE from will sell me a new screen for $144AUD delivered, but ASUS want $350AUD for the same screen – when I asked why they said “we won’t sell you the part, we have to install it”. When I queried $200 in labor to install it, they said “well, that’s what we charge – you can always do it yourself and void your warranty”

Beginning to wish I’d bought an HP now.
ashley said on 08-11-2009

thank you so much for this help page… i have been wanting to do this for ages. I worked for me and now I am enjoying snow leopard yery much. I do however hope you can furnish me with a few answers to some questions I have.
1. my camera works as does the sd, but i cant get the bluetooth to activate? any ideas?
2. is there any document that i can use to see what keys on the keyboard no longer work.
3. is there anything else i should know about the limitations of this hakintosh?

THANKS
moldor said on 08-11-2009

Ashley, if you followed the howto exactly (substituting NetBookBootMaker for NetbookInstaller) bluetooth should just work.

WHat happens when you try to activate it ?
ashley said on 09-11-2009

thanks for reply. i am able to detect bluetooth devices, i can “pair” with them, but for some reason , i cant use them?
ashley said on 09-11-2009

could it be that i did this instal using a working mac pro without bluetooth installed, or wifi for that matter.???
Frank said on 10-11-2009

Hello:

Points 6 and 7:

(6) The files to be copied into /Extra — I did that using “Terminal” — logging in with sudo -s. But I see the ownership and permissions of these copied files in /Extra are NOT like the other files there ‘root’ but have my Apple username as owner. Is that a problem? If so, how do I otherwise do that? When I try going to root in “Terminal” by typing su – I am getting a password error…. not sure how that works.

(7) In step 7, on the EeePC, with the external drive connected that has the MacOS install, I simply have no cluse HOW-TO boot from that external drive. My EeePC runs Windows 7.

Can you give me some hints?

Frank
Stephane THIRION said on 10-11-2009

Hi Frank
You have to enter the bios setup to change the boot order of your devices, and put your USB drive first.

To access the bios you have to hit the F2 or Inser key at your computer boot.
Frank said on 10-11-2009

Okay, thanks Stephane.

I did that, and the screen I get when rebooting is:

boot0: GPT
boot0: testing
boot0: testing
boot0: done
boot1: /boot

It hangs right there. Maybe because of what I mentioned above for point (7)?

Also, I am NOT using a 1000HE but a brand new 1005HA-H (with 250 Gig HDD).

What do you think?

Frank
moldor said on 10-11-2009

Hi Frank,

I’d use the NetbookBootMaker program. That fixed a similar problem on my machine.

Jon
Frank said on 10-11-2009

Hi Mlder:

I already used NetbookBootMaker (latest available version) — in step 5.

Frank
Frank said on 10-11-2009

I still think the problem is the way how I copied the files dsdt.aml, dsdt.dsl etc. to /Extra — and the ownership of these file (NOT root).
How do you copy them?

Frank
moldor said on 11-11-2009

Frank – I’m reinstalling the OS now, so I’ll put up a modified list of instructions when I’m finished.

One thing I did do, and always do, is to enable the ROOT user and copy the files to /Extra as root – it could be that which has screwed up your install.
Frank said on 11-11-2009

Hi Moldor:

Just changed ownsership of the files installed into /Extra using the command:
chown -R root:wheel

But this made not any difference — getting the same error on my EeePC.

Could it be the bios version of the EeePC or the fact that the EeePC is a 1005HA-H ?
Or, maybe, that I upgraded the newly installed Snow Leopard on the external drive to 10.6.2 already?

Frank
moldor said on 11-11-2009

You can’t do the install from an external drive if you’ve upgraded to 10.6.2 – you have to use 10.6.1 or lower.
Frank said on 11-11-2009

Ahhhhhhh … okay. I will start over then.
Is it possible to upgrade AFTER 10.6.0 was successfully installed, using “Software Update”?

Thanks!

Frank
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John said on 16-11-2009

Hi !

Anyone has an idea why I can boot my EeePC with the created external HDD and the installed OSX there, but *not* see EeePC’s internal hard drive from “Disk Utility”??? I did two different installs of OSX — 10.5 and 106.1 — on two different external disks, both time the same. So I can’t format the internal drive and copy teh install over there. What could this be?

John
iStinkles said on 26-11-2009

My eee is at the gray screen with apple and loading circle. but it’s taking its time. should i just let it run, or did i do something wrong
Tees said on 04-01-2010

I was wondering: you mention the need for a Mac with Snow Leopard already installed. Would it also be possible to use a Mac with Leopard? Point is that I have a Mac at work, at which Leopard is installed and I don’t have admin rights, but would like to have Mac OS X on my Asus EEE.
Stephane THIRION said on 04-01-2010

I think it should do the trick, do you have access to the disk manager ?
Tees said on 04-01-2010

Thanks for the fast reply. I can access Disk Utility, and I’m also able to GUID format a USB drive. I’ll give it a try as soon as I’ve got the Snow Leopard install DVD (and post the result here)
Stephane THIRION said on 04-01-2010

ok, I think it should be fine ;)

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