OS X on External Hard Drive
I have a 20GB external hard drive that I want to install OS X on because my laptop's HD is rather small and I have some difficulty partitioning it. I have a LG R400 with the following specs: - ATI X2300 Graphic Card (128MB VRAM) - Intel…
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I have a 20GB external hard drive that I want to install OS X on because my laptop's HD is rather small and I have some difficulty partitioning it. I have a LG R400 with the following specs:
- ATI X2300 Graphic Card (128MB VRAM)
- Intel T2130 CPU (1.86GHz Core2Duo)
- 2.5GB RAM
- Atheros AR5007EG Wifi Card
- Realtek Speakers
I was wondering what distro of OS X would be able to give support for my wifi card (dont really mind not having speakers) and install without much problems?
Which kernel should I use since someone said I shouldn't use Vanilla (I have downloaded iDeneb v1.4)?
Which patches should I use with my laptop (I chose my X2300 driver, Vanilla kernel, tried voodoo kernel as well, and the cpus=1 fix patches but the install didnt work both times)
How can I go about installing iDeneb v1.4 on a external HD, and getting it to install and boot from the external HD (so that I can use windows when I need to and when I want to use OS X I just plug in the HD - I can set up the BIOS to load from external HD first).
Thanks alot, I am new to OSx86 - I have tried installing OSX on my laptop partition and it didnt work.
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Ok, so I tried to do an install on the external HD and I only selected the essential stuff in the customize part and i selected my video driver (ati x2300) and i selected my wifi (atheros ar5007eg). But when I rebooted after the successful install screen it got stuck on the apple loading screen for a very long time and never progressed. Please help. This is all in iDeneb v1.4. I didnt select a kernel either (there were 4 options: sleep, voodoo, speedstep and one other, not vanilla) nor a chipset, didnt know which one to choose.
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Normally you should be able to use an external device, OS X even runs from an USB stick. But USB devices are very slow. Do you have eSATA ports on your laptop? Which model do you have.
The XxX 10.5.6 Final 2 image has drivers for your gfx card and wireless LAN. But we have to know the chipset. PM me for a download link.
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| @osxisawesome | Primary Author | 4 | 2009-04-18 → 2009-04-19 |
| @naquaada | Contributor | 1 | 2009-04-18 |