After quite a bit of research and attempting several different methods, I found that the easiest way for me to get the highest version of OS X Leopard (10.5.8) installed onto an old Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop was to use iDeneb 1.6, which gets the 10.5.8 kexts (think: drivers) installed (but does not get the video working), and then go behind it and run iDeneb 1.4, leaving everything unchecked except for the audio (choosing AC97) and the video (choosing GMA900). The reason is because while iDeneb 1.4 only goes up to 10.5.6, it has audio and video drivers that actually work on this unit. Once finished, Mac's built-in Software Update feature can be used to get the latest updates from Apple for all the various things, such as Java, iTunes, etc. Also, since 10.5.8 was the final update for the Leopard OS (10.5), the system will not prompt for any OS update beyond that which the machine and the drivers can support. By the way, I installed a 1GB ram chip, bringing this unit's total ram to 1.25 GB. It is working very well. Here are the pertinent iDeneb settings:
Installing iDeneb 1.6 (the first pass) the following are to be checked:
- iDeneb Main system
- iDeneb OSx86 Components 10.5.8 Ready
- Bootloader:
- Chameleon v2
- 9.8.0 Kernel Qoopz
- Apple Decrypt
- Disabler
- DSDT Patcher
- Time Machine Fix
- OpenHaltRestart
- PS/2 Drivers
- VooDooPS2Controller
- VooDooPS2 Trackpad
- CPUS=1_Fix
- Firewire Remove
- Sealbelt Fix
- Audio:
- VooDooHDA (had to later be selected as AC97 during iDeneb 1.4)
- ICHx Fixed
- Ethernet
- Intel100ProVE
- Broadcom Wifi
- SpeedStep
- VooDooPower
- GenericCPUPMControl
- Intel
- GMA 950 Laptop (had to later be selected as GMA 900 during iDeneb 1.4)
Running the install of iDeneb 1.4 (the second pass) the following are to be checked:
- Audio:
- AC97
- Video:
- Intel
- GMA 900
Sincerely,
Pastor J
The installation on my Inspiron 2200 went perfect. However any time i download anything off the internet when it reaches 100% my monitor freezes and I have to restart the machine. Sadly I had to give up on OSX as a choice of operating system.
ReplyDeleteHi, I followed your guide and everything goes fine, I just skip the last step (the second pass), then I used bootflags -v -x and then fsck ... mount ... cd /system/library/extentions/ then "rm -r AppleIntelGMA*" and "rm -r AppleIntelFrameBuffer*" <--- (or something like that this last one, the thing I leave just two files name beginning with "AppleIntel" and none of both sound like video things) then reboot and the setup process keep goes fine... and not sure about qe/ci yet, but the system work like a charm, thank you very much, all respect...
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