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Installing Retail Snow Leopard On Inspiron 1525

So I'm going to install Snow leopard on my Dell Inspiron 1525, looking at the MacYourPC site (macyour pc.com/2009/09/13/mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-retail-install-boot-132-method/) it seems relatively easy...(touch wood I was just wondering…

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@dreamsofubuntu Published 2009-11-07
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Snow Leopard 10.6
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9,639 historical reads · 1 curated field notes (from 3 dispatches) · 2009-11-07 – 2009-11-13
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@dreamsofubuntu (2)@ep3hatch03

So I'm going to install Snow leopard on my Dell Inspiron 1525, looking at the MacYourPC site (macyour pc.com/2009/09/13/mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-retail-install-boot-132-method/) it seems relatively easy...(touch wood I was just wondering if there where any inspiron 1525 hackintosh owners who could recommend some of the kexts which they use.

Also how do you update from the retail install? is it through the official apple update manager? will this break anything?

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Author Update #1 @dreamsofubuntu 2009-11-12

After booting the boot-132 disk and replacing it with my leopard disk and then pressing f5 like the macyourpc site says I just get pixelised strips at the top and bottom of my screen...

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Field Note #1 @ep3hatch03 2009-11-13

Press F5 twice will solve it

I made a forum dedicated to our Dell 1525, cehck it out!

dellosx.forum otion.com/

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@dreamsofubuntuPrimary Author22009-11-07 → 2009-11-12
@ep3hatch03Contributor12009-11-13