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"Hackintoshed" ATOMs & OS9 . . .
Since I've started yet another whacky hack topic anyway:
It's time for some tangential twisting!
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EudiG! Where was the link you posted for installation of, and operation of the built in 3G Modem from, ubuntu/AMD on my Verizon Pavilion dm1? :?:
I can't find it in the forums. :I
trag, are those D430 Docks hitting eBay as well? What are decent price ranges for both . . .
. . . got FireWire too? That sounds like a great combination of I/O doohickies! :approve:
It's time for some tangential twisting!
) EudiG! Where was the link you posted for installation of, and operation of the built in 3G Modem from, ubuntu/AMD on my Verizon Pavilion dm1? :?:
I can't find it in the forums. :I
trag, are those D430 Docks hitting eBay as well? What are decent price ranges for both . . .
. . . got FireWire too? That sounds like a great combination of I/O doohickies! :approve:
Yep, the D430 and E4300 each have a 1394 port. The docks for the D430 were about $30 the last time I checked. I bought my D430 as a package from a seller with the laptop, docking station, laptop bag, a couple of AC adapters, Windows XP Pro (best for my programmer software), and other sundry. The 1.33 GHz is the fastest model. The 1.2GHz model was more common. And there was a 1.06 GHz model which I think had a single core.
There are a couple or three different docking stations. The one with the parallel port and a DVD drive built in is the "Media Bay", which is a very flat station like a slice that makes the D430 thicker.
I paid $225 for my lot back around April. Now the D430s seem to be around $150 - $170 but the price has been slipping recently. They were solidly over $200 until a few weeks ago. Watch out for the large numbers of models with no hard drive and no cable/caddy. The 1.8" drive is expensive to replace. The caddy/cable set can cost $35 all by itself, and a 120 GB 1.8" drive is about $80.
I found a 240 GB drive for $130 which I'm tempted to try. The seller claims it doesn't work with laptops, only media devices (iPods), but I think it will work with a sector adjustment tool. The bigger drives have 4K sectors instead of 512 byte sectors (IIRC) and there's a need to put the start of the something or other at the 64th sector instead of the 63rd and that's what the adjustment tool does.
The reviews I've read where folks failed to get them to work are consistent with this hypothesis. The drives seem to format, but won't work as bootable and work in external enclosures. Apparently this is a normal symptom of the advanced mumble formating, AKA 4K sectors.
Still, $130 seems like a lot of money now days for a 240 GB drive... Newegg had a 2.5" SATA drive for $50 with 750 GB the other day.
There are a couple or three different docking stations. The one with the parallel port and a DVD drive built in is the "Media Bay", which is a very flat station like a slice that makes the D430 thicker.
I paid $225 for my lot back around April. Now the D430s seem to be around $150 - $170 but the price has been slipping recently. They were solidly over $200 until a few weeks ago. Watch out for the large numbers of models with no hard drive and no cable/caddy. The 1.8" drive is expensive to replace. The caddy/cable set can cost $35 all by itself, and a 120 GB 1.8" drive is about $80.
I found a 240 GB drive for $130 which I'm tempted to try. The seller claims it doesn't work with laptops, only media devices (iPods), but I think it will work with a sector adjustment tool. The bigger drives have 4K sectors instead of 512 byte sectors (IIRC) and there's a need to put the start of the something or other at the 64th sector instead of the 63rd and that's what the adjustment tool does.
The reviews I've read where folks failed to get them to work are consistent with this hypothesis. The drives seem to format, but won't work as bootable and work in external enclosures. Apparently this is a normal symptom of the advanced mumble formating, AKA 4K sectors.
Still, $130 seems like a lot of money now days for a 240 GB drive... Newegg had a 2.5" SATA drive for $50 with 750 GB the other day.
I had installed 10.6.3 on a Asus EeePC 1001HA recently.
Obviously it can be done with the Netbookinstaller/Netbook bootmaker packages.
BasiliskII and SheepShaver were installed on the fly as usual with OSX. SS´s performance on OS9 or 7.6 wasn´t even that bad, booting was rather fast.
Nevertheless I would not recommend Snow Leo for a low end netbook like the 1001HA.
Battery life was poor and the Eee´s fan was blowing permanently. WiFi was a pain most of the time with the built in WLAN.
For those hating XP, Mandriva might be an alternative host for the emulators, BII and SS perform less good than with Snow, but are quite useable still.
HAIKU might be worth a shot, but AFAIK there is only a BasiliskII build available.
Obviously it can be done with the Netbookinstaller/Netbook bootmaker packages.
BasiliskII and SheepShaver were installed on the fly as usual with OSX. SS´s performance on OS9 or 7.6 wasn´t even that bad, booting was rather fast.
Nevertheless I would not recommend Snow Leo for a low end netbook like the 1001HA.
Battery life was poor and the Eee´s fan was blowing permanently. WiFi was a pain most of the time with the built in WLAN.
For those hating XP, Mandriva might be an alternative host for the emulators, BII and SS perform less good than with Snow, but are quite useable still.
HAIKU might be worth a shot, but AFAIK there is only a BasiliskII build available.
Mandriva was discontinued and turned into madrieia or whatever they called it. I always hated it anyways; I prefer Debian based distros.
Even better would be creating a linux init script to start Basilisk or Sheepshaver automatically (with X) before gdm loads. It can be done fairly easily, and you'll never have to see the other Linux stuff.
Compile a kernel and make it load in 15 seconds too
Compile a kernel and make it load in 15 seconds too
I use an Acer Aspire One (Atom) A150 as a hackintosh (triple boot w/ Linux and XP).
Runs alright, not the quickest OSX machine out there.
As it is not PPC, 9 wont work without an emulator.
PPC application performance via Rosetta of Office X is not good, and ends up placing a rogue cursor in the document.
Runs alright, not the quickest OSX machine out there.
As it is not PPC, 9 wont work without an emulator.
PPC application performance via Rosetta of Office X is not good, and ends up placing a rogue cursor in the document.
My "Desktop" is a hackintoshed Dell XPS M1530 running Snow Leopard, and it runs great, in fact it runs circles around my 1st Gen MacBook 
It wasn't hard to set up after I found the right DSDT.aml for it, but I have been considering switching over completely to Linux Mint.
One question though, anybody have any good ideas about getting dual monitors working properly with the GMA 950 under Linux Mint?
It wasn't hard to set up after I found the right DSDT.aml for it, but I have been considering switching over completely to Linux Mint.One question though, anybody have any good ideas about getting dual monitors working properly with the GMA 950 under Linux Mint?
Dual monitors as in notebook + external?
Should be straightforward once monitor plugged in. If not, your /etc/x11/xorg.conf will likely need "tweaked"
Not sure if this helps
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Script_to_toggle_internal.2Fexternal_display_for_laptops
Should be straightforward once monitor plugged in. If not, your /etc/x11/xorg.conf will likely need "tweaked"
Not sure if this helps
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Script_to_toggle_internal.2Fexternal_display_for_laptops