MSI Wind OSx86 / Hackint0sh

I recently converted a MSI Wind netbook into a mini "Hackint0sh". There are many ways of doing this and several OSx86 distributions, some of which are more or less compatible with different systems and hardware configurations . I was relatively new to the whole process so I studied quite a few guides and tutorials. The process involved much trial and error / figuring out the best method for the tools that were at hand (really forced me to brush up on my knowledge of Terminal commands!) I almost screamed like a little girl upon seeing the Leopard install screen on my previously Windows XP netbook. I loosely followed this guide, while changing a few steps to suit my setup.

I did not have an external DVD reader/writer so I created a GUID partition on a 1TB Western Digital USB HD. Then I used SuperDupe to copy the iDeneb v1.4 10.5.6 (available at your neighborhood torrent shop ;) image over to the partition then installed the Chameleon bootloader on the partition.

Went into the boot settings on the MSI Wind and selected the USB HD as the boot startup disk. The drive booted and the install completed successfully but not without quite a few hiccups like distorted screen size, and sound/audio i|o, web cam, and wireless all not functioning. Somehow, these all magically began working after about an hour of installing/uninstalling/re-installing various kernel extensions and drivers.




I haven't done any benchmark tests but this little MSI Wind Hackint0sh (using it to make this post right now) has been running great and I've been continually impressed with it's performance.

This is not meant to be a guide, just a brief overview of the process that I went through but if you're interested in making your own hackint0sh, feel free to post questions in the comments.

Below are several resources that made this possible. Also, thank yous to many friendly digital citizens in the #hackint0sh channel of irc.hackint0sh.hu server who were super supportive and helpful!

http://www.osx86project.org/

http://www.hackint0sh.org

http://ihackintosh.org/

http://msiwind.net/

http://forums.msiwind.net/osx-installing/installing-osx-the-wind-using-ideneb-t11069.html
( ^same guide as posted in the text)

http://www.electricvagabond.com/2008/11/msi-wind-touchscreen-mod.html
(Touch Screen Mod!)

http://gizmodo.com/5109902/msi-encourages-hackintosh-leaks-os-x-wi+fi-drivers-for-the-wind

Oh yea! can't forget, I found some amazing work on this flickr stream, one of those images is being tiled as my desktop seen in the last image above. And i found those nice minimal pictogram icons at this site.