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11-15-2009, 06:11 AM
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Samsung N120 - OSX 10.5.7 (Iatkos v7) - fully working 10.5.8 with bcm94321 wifi!!!
INSTALLING OSX 10.5.7 ON MY SAMSUNG N120 (similar to the NC10 model).
Starting from a WinXP install or blank HDD. I use in part these guides: 1- http://myhpmini.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=1633 2- http://kagliostro.net/2008/11/25/mac...llation-guide/ 3- http://acerbook.blogspot.com/ Particulars of my case: No CD drive on N120, not even external, and only access to another Mac (Tiger) for internet (has a CD/DVD reader). This is not a technical install guide, it's just the way I do it with limited hardware and limited knowledge, it's quite dumb proof. Without those guys who made those guides I couldn't have done it. I just wish Apple would make their OS installable out of the box on PC hardware. 1. Install Win XP as the first partition of the drive of my target machine I had so much trouble installing XP without a CD/DVD drive!!! A usb CD drive would have helped or even if i had a good old disk drive, I could maybe boot DOS, then copy the install files to my usb from the Mac (has a cd drive built-in), then to the HDD of my netbook, then start the setup. But someone figured out a way to make a USB key bootable XP install... from a Mac!!!! Using VirtualBox from SUN (sth like VMware). By the way, at this point skip to the next step if you have what you need to install XP or already have that installed. I use the relevant part of this guide to make a bootable USB XP install... essentially by first installing XP in VirtualBox on my Mac, then using the USB passthrough to the USB key connected to my Mac(a matter of setting up your virtual environment i.e. configuration). Then use the provided XP tools to build a USB key that is bootable : http://acerbook.blogspot.com (It involves BartPE and PEtoUSB - you need a XP install CD or an iso to transform your CD to a USB bootable XP install). It actually works with my WinXP SP3 CD from wherever... the only weird thing is that this CD doesn't ask for a CD key during install as I remember... but once transformed to this USB bootable key it DOES... I used a key on the Web, a corporate SP2 or SP3 volume whatever... just to let you know obviously the 'unattended' aspect of my disk was modified... 1a - XP usb install and partitioning : Boot with this and make sure the BIOS is set up properly (usb boot, execution bit option enabled - this prevented me from installing OSX initially, Wifi on, latest bios). Using the partition tool in the XP install, I decided I'd delete all the partitions - a clean slate - create a first NTFS partition at the beginning of the drive, install XP... there was the CD key prompt, the install went smooth, the file copy is quick with a USB key... So now we have a working XP installed, NTFS, C: 2- Download the Iatkos v.7 (10.5.7) I tried other distros, I'm no power user, I don't have time to play with Unix stuff I don't really get nor care about so I think IPC or Idened partly worked for me, the worst being trying to play with a retail SL with netbookinstaller etc. I don't have the time. Iatkos gives me a working 10.5.7 from the 'first' try so to speak. 3- Further partitionning I use Easus Partition master (free) in XP to create a second primary partition, FAT32 this time which becomes D:, of at least the size of the Iatkos iso but I give it 10 gb, which I call INSTALL (I can't stand logical partitions, I've had so much problems under Linux ages ago with that etc...). I create a third larger primary partition for the future OSX, it's fat32 for the moment, E:, at least 6-7 Gb... I use 50gb. 3a- Dump the Iatkos ISO to the partition (INSTALL) to be the source of the OSX install Now, use ddmac.exe (Leopard HD install helper tool, you'll find it easily all over) - referenced in the guides. Load the Iatkos.iso in it, and in the dropdown select the INSTALL partition you created as the target... there's a reference to boot.ini and my C: drive, it's all good, actually the boot.ini on C: will be modified to add the option of booting from this partition... People usually use DDMAC to make a bootable USB drive install of OSX. I use it as I've seen somewhere to dump the Iatkos iso to a partition, and install from that instead (and the INSTALL partition remains there if I want to reinstall later on). The menus are unreadable in DDMAC, just leave the things checked and select the iso like explained then click the button... the dump proceeds. It gives the message 'Have fun' when it's finished... 4-Reboot and Install OSX After reboot, you have a boot.ini menu - there should be 2 choices now : XP or MacOSInstall... if not try pressing F8 right after you select XP and see... Did you change some setting in DDMAC? The partition is somewhere! I choose the MacOSinstall. Sometimes I'd select it and it would come back right away to the boot menu... in that case, again, right after I press enter when I select MacOSinstall, I press F8 (YOU HAVE TO PRESS IT A FRACTION OF A SECOND AFTER ENTER, REALLY): I get another bootloader, similar to text loaders in linux, and there's Iatkos_v.7 in it, hd0,2 I think, who cares about the label... so I choose that... and it loads the installer. The first time it may not load properly and freeze. Always try twice. Do a force shutdown if need be and reboot, and try the installer again. It seems to me that freezing may happen during the first install or first shutdown after installing. Rebooting solves the issue for good. Sometimes playing with dual booting I end up messing up bootloaders and sometimes I can't fix it, partitions may become inaccessible etc. I was just as bad under linux. But resetting the partition scheme, installing XP first, then OSX from the install partition, always works for me. When I first tried I couldn't go further because of BIOS settings... the data executable bit option thingy must be enabled for me in BIOS for the install to work. It was the only relevant option as far as I'm concerned, the rest of the options being on defaults. I'm using the latest bios. 5-OSX installer. In the first steps of the installer, choose Utilities and DiskUtility to Erase the bigger FAT32 partition you've made and use the Mac OS Journaled format. Quit the utility. Continue the installer, select this partition that was just formatted, click on Customize before installing: I only add the following to what's already checked by default: -VoodooPS/2 Controller -SpeedStep (I'm not even sure if Atom has speedstep... this may be not necessary, whatever) -Laptop battery -NTFS-3g I DON'T add sata, intel ide, ACPI, OHR, symbios or anything else that is not checked already. KISS. I bought a BC94321MC on the web for 20$. Can't make it work under XP after trying 15 different drivers. But I installed it at this point in the N120. http://www.tomacintosh.com/2009/03/2...-samsung-nc10/ You don't need to select the BC43xx driver in the installer here, it just works natively in OSX, scans my network at the end of the install process. So, you click next and the installer goes... I'm not a Mac guy, I was surprised how fast a Mac install is... 15 mins or less... It will reboot and now you have the Cameleon boot loader defaulting to boot OSX, and you can click on a key and it also sees my other partitions, NTFS and the INSTALL partition, so you can always boot those too... 6-OSX desktop. I reach the desktop in lo-res, with sound working, trackpad and keyboard working, airport already connected and working, everything seems fine. I do a Software update to install 10.5.8 and other stuff, and a few reboots later I've exhausted the updates available. In the System preferences, Trackpad item, ''clicking'' is not checked for me by default it seems. The trackpad works OOB but the tap-clicking only works for me after I check this(doh!)... or is it related to me not installing the VoodooPS2 trackpad plugin and just the VoodooPS2Controller? Whatever, it now works. Nothing else needed. In another post I thought I had a big issue because sometimes I would install and the clicking was enabled by default, even during part of the OSX install.. I guess the option was not checked in 'Trackpad' insofar as we're talking about what happens after install - I have no more time to figure out why it may be different from one install to the other. 7-GMA950 For this I use the part of the guide related to booting in single user mode with -s from Cameleon, then rm -r on some kext, then reboot, install the 3 kexts, install GMA950.pkg, then enable Quartz. The guide spells it out well: Quote:
So this is it!! My Samsung N120 runs 10.5.8 with wireless, trackpad, dual-booting XP for backward compatibilty and much longer battery life I gather. For me it'll be staying like that until there's a Iatkos version of SL. Now if someone had a XP driver for my BCM94321MC lolll EDIT 29th nov. 09: this guy did it while keeping the manufacturer partition, without using chameleon (just using the little darwin bootloader) and needed cpus=1 at boot to boot it right. http://www.infinitemac.com/f47/how-t...netbook-t4727/ - Another guy made it work on his MSi U100. Congrats! Last edited by SlimJim; 11-29-2009 at 10:40 PM. 
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11-15-2009, 10:41 PM
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BCM94321MC XP driver... finaly!
4.150.29.0
Yeah, it's that one, don't know where it comes from, after I added drivers from tons of sources on the Web, this one was listed as Broadcom 801.11 n WLAN in the 'select yourself from a list' section of the driver update in device manager, had to uncheck 'show compatible drivers' and I tried that one amongst many, and XP gave me a warning it didn't want to load it but it did and it just worked. So at last the wifi works in both XP and 10.5.8!!
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11-16-2009, 12:10 AM
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USAGE NOTES:
Well, I guess this will always be a work in progress somehow... Overall everything is fine but I noticed the following: -Tap to click can be unresponsive for me... weirdly tap to click is less responsive on the dock and top bar whereas it's great on the desktop and in apps... I played with the settings in the pref pane, increasing speed for double-tapping using as a reference the left pane of a finder window for testing... I find the left pane was very unresponsive, trying to click on 'applications' for instance... I reached a compromise also playing with another setting... it's usable and it can be very precise but the tapping somehow feels 'engineered'... there's room for improvement but it works and I can use it now. I always feel it's too responsive when I go back to XP... I feel the difference. I'll buy a mouse anyway... -Speedstep - maybe not such a good idea after all.. I find during peak usage, when I was installing XP in Virtualbox or using it after, that everything would become jerky every some seconds... I guess while the cpu is being adjusted... maybe I should remove it. Or is it related to something else? Maybe some other kext could help finaly. Otherwise desktop and normal app usage seems fine. So this is it. Some tweaking remains!
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11-16-2009, 03:35 AM
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I started the Iatkos installer with the cpus=1 flag... With or without that I can install... not sure what impact it's having. I added a cpus=1 string to the kernel flags of the boot.plist file in /Library/Preferences/... after installation - doing so seemed right even though the profiler was showing only 1 cpu but the Voodoopower GenericCPU usage thing in applications was showing 2... now it shows 2 also but the second one has ridiculus values and the first one shows something that looks right... I don't know what's the good setting. The profiler identifies the netbook as Macbook4.1 - hadn't noticed that before.
Also this time I reinstalled I checked Voodoo with trackpad, and not the other. I had tap-to-click during the account creatin part of the install and had to check 'clicking' in the trackpad prefpane after install... overall the tap seems to have improved this time over... not sure why. It's trial and error... Last edited by SlimJim; 11-16-2009 at 03:38 AM.
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11-21-2009, 10:06 AM
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USAGE NOTES ... Well, after a week of using my netbook with OSX, I can say overall the experience is quite good, and the OS is very stable on the machine. But there's a few setbacks in my opinion, which can be caused maybe by my choices in the setup during installation:
-I find the VoodooHDA to be considerably less enjoyable than my XP driver for the sound - I found the sound to be quite hollow during playback of streaming movies I was watching... haven't played with it, there's not much settings I can adjust anyway... -Heat: under XP, after 2 hours of a movie playback for instance, the netbook is cool, slightly warm on the left side with some warm air coming from the side of the case... but I'm surprised how cool it remains. Under OSX, both the left and the right side, on each side of the trackpad, and the bottom, are really warm, to the point of making it uncomfortable on my lap or when I carry the computer around. The difference is considerable to the point I almost feel I could slide off the stickers at right side of the trackpad with a finger because the glue underneath it is warm. I mean the laptop works well and doesn't seem to suffer from this, the CPU reaches 50C under load and that's nothing compared to the 90C it can withstand but the computer becomes really warm. I haven't tried reinstalling without speedstep at this point. I wonder if people are getting similar results... If someone has an NC10 or N120 I'd like to know if you find it warm or not... -Battery life: Is less in OSX than XP but still, after 2 hours I had 50% battery left, and I haven't really timed anything but it looks like it's going to be between 3-4 hours... -Trackpad: I got used to it but I can't trigger the 'right click' by using 2 fingers at once on the pad... haven't played too much with the settings either but still. For intense editing and formatting in word processing for instance I prefer a mouse anyway... So that's it for now! Thanks! Last edited by SlimJim; 11-21-2009 at 10:09 AM.
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11-29-2009, 10:33 PM
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If anyone is looking for a wifi card that works great in OSX, I found this one, which I bought from this seller, and it works great in both XP and OSX... otherwise, most wifi cards in netbooks just don't do it right...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Wifi-wireless-BC...item5ad3f4b9f8 Opening a N120 Samsung is quite easy but you need a little tool to slide along the case between each clip... I used something strong and thin, made of stainless steel so that I don't leave marks... http://www.tomacintosh.com/2009/03/2...-samsung-nc10/
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12-11-2009, 05:30 AM
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I hope sooner than later we can have SL with the IKaros release...
http://uphuck.ggrn.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7276 Of course, when you have an external DVD or hdd, there are other ways to install, including a retail SL. OSX is quite enjoyable on these netbooks, and I recommend it, with your current OS for backup. I like to use my XP for the battery life and I find it a bit more responsive on my 1 gb ram. As support improves on OSX, I think it will be my OS of choice in the near future. It's really up to Apple to make it available to the public and i think their OS deserves to be on our netbooks and laptops. In the meantime, I guess we'll do it ourselves. A happy holiday season!
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01-20-2010, 03:11 AM
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A Happy New Year! Well, my OS X install still works, now much more usable with an external mouse than with the trackpad... I've ordered the Broadcom HD 1080 mini pci-e card since the Samsung N120 has 2 mini pci-e slots... I'll post some feedback when I install it. Recently I was using OS X and I realized I can't play Xvid movies in VLC with my install. Installing the xvid plugin for Quicktime allowed the movies to be played in QT but VLC is just displaying a black screen during playback... this is surprising.. I'm used to VLC always playing. Is this related to the quartz engine? I don't know. As I said, the movies play back well in Quicktime... I haven't tried to debug that... I just don't have the time! Have fun!
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02-07-2010, 08:59 PM
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Fully working iAtkos Install
I finally got what I think is a fully functional install as well. I didn't write down the exact steps but I had to modify kexts for ethernet, the graphics drivers for Quartz extreme, and most recently sleep. I also manually removed the sleepimage so I have a dual-booting XP and 10.5.8 system. I did replace my wireless card with an Airport Extreme one from eBay for $20.
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03-12-2010, 03:43 AM
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