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Member #4,014 · 2008-12-29 → 2010-06-01
#412 by Dispatches #329 by Author Reads #366 by Thread Reach Member #4,014 Retail DVD / USB Chameleon / Boot-132 AMD OSx86

@norcimo

InfiniteMac community contributor with 18 recorded dispatches, 5 lead technical dossiers (32,822 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,254,763 historical readers.

Dispatches 18 Ranked #412 of 6,691
Author Reads 32,822 Ranked #329 · 5 dossiers
Thread Reach 1,254,763 Ranked #366 in reach
Lead Dossiers 5 6,564 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #4,014 Joined 2008-12-29
Active Window 2008–2010 2008-12-29 → 2010-06-01
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Retial Snow Leopard 10.6.3
Asrock 4Core1600 P35, Intel Dual Core E8400 3GHZ, 2gig DDR3 FSB1333, WD320 7200 SATA2 HD, Geforce 8800 GTX 512 PCIe, Mac A1152 Mighty mouse , Mac A1048 keyboard.
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"Fuji Apple" Lifebook 4250 Tablet Book, 2gig DDr2, Intel Core 2 Duo, 32GigSSD, Apple Airport, Tablet Touch Screen, DVD writer.
Archive Standing
#412 of 6,691 by Dispatches (18 notes) · #329 of 3,454 by Author Readership (32,822 reads across 5 dossiers) · #366 by Thread Reach (1,254,763 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #4,014 · Joined 2008-12-29
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Retail DVD / USB (5) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · AMD OSx86 (2) · Gigabyte G31M / P35 (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

10.X Core
15 (83%)
Leopard 10.5
3 (17%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @norcimo (5)

32,822 cumulative reads on threads started by @norcimo

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Need Kext for Intel GM965 PLEASE,
HP Pavilion DV2000 laptop, Product#2500 intel chipset and CPU. Celeron dual core, Used the default chameleon loader, and default kernal. Installation goes quickly. Boots up fast.. used Ps2 keyboard and mouse driver to get laptop and touch…
Leopard 10.514,317 reads
2009-01-06 · 2 notes
DigitalRise X9 Tablet PC
Has anyone tried S: on this? it has the makings of all netbook intel 950 atom..specs.. DigitalRise X9 Tablet PC: Multitouch Tablet PC from China itech diary.com/digitalrise-x9-tablet-pc-multitouch-tablet-pc-from-china.html This is…
10.X Core8,534 reads
2010-05-04 · 28 notes
ACER 5100 and IDENEB 1.4 10.5.6 Video slowness
I got my old Acer 5100 out of the closed, the hard drive was bad, so I installed a 32SSD I had laying around. I got everything to work!. It was little hard with the video, but I found callisto03, for some reason callisto8 would not work…
10.X Core4,062 reads
2009-04-11 · 1 notes
Apple soft raid installation...
Can someone please explaing to me how do a stripe raid installation? I'm able to make the raid drive., i'm able to install the OS on both releases, it won't boot up. I tried SUPERDUPER, again used disk utility made my Raid array, executed…
10.X Core3,136 reads
2009-05-08 · 1 notes
OSX installation on a Apple Soft Stripe Raid HELP
Can someone please explaing to me how do a stripe raid installation? I'm able to make the raid drive., i'm able to install the OS on both releases, it won't boot up. I tried SUPERDUPER, again used disk utility made my Raid array, executed…
Leopard 10.52,773 reads
2009-05-05 · 1 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (13)

Direct links into threads where @norcimo contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“HP Pavilion DV2500 laptop, intel chipset and CPU. Celeron dual core, Used the default chameleon loader, and default kernal. installation goes quickly. Boots up fast.. used Ps2 keyboard and mouse driver, Graphcis Excellent! Intel GM950 with …”
10.X Core2008-12-29
965,272 dossier reads
iPC OSx86 10.5.6 problems/wishes
“Help HARA. I have the dreadful bootup loop. I have both the IPC 10.5.6 final and the IPC 10.5.6 DL LIVE DVD. They both boot up and restarts. I used this at the prompt: -x -c -v, even with cpus=1, same thing, they both reboot almost immediat…”
10.X Core2009-02-12
100,995 dossier reads
How to create & customize a Retail Installer on a USB Drive with Chameleon 2 RC1
“I have IPC installed, everything runs. No complaints. I want to install OS X retail, using your method.. but I'm a bit confused. I never delt with kernals.. "vanilla" "voodoo" can you please explain the method I would go with? im unclear co…”
10.X Core2009-05-17
51,321 dossier reads
How do I burn .dmg to thumbdrive on PC
“The way I did was using an existing mac. I copied the IPC-DL.ISO file to the desktop I formatted my 8gig usb imation drive on the mac. 4 gig works too..on the regular IPC. Using the disk utility, I restored the .iso file onto my USB drive. …”
Leopard 10.52009-05-06
30,196 dossier reads
Acer Aspire 5100
“Yes. I works really good. Some issues though with the video accelleration. But everything else work great. I just installed 10.5.6 from IDENEB, plus the Athero.kext file form Leo. this enables the athero wireless..the wired is nativly recog…”
10.X Core2009-04-11
10,760 dossier reads
DigitalRise X9 Tablet PC
“going to have to return it...its alot of work to swap touch screens... almost broke mine in the process... I love this thing, I paid way to much.”
10.X Core2010-06-01
8,534 dossier reads
DigitalRise X9 Tablet PC
“Netbook installer...this is a very good package. so you must use a single touch digitizer... can you point it to the right direction.. cause I my X9 is multi..and I can return it.. were on eBAY?”
10.X Core2010-05-27
8,534 dossier reads
DigitalRise X9 Tablet PC
“Is the device for the touch screen serial or USB, or PS2? Cause we can mod a Kext...and test it out...if its Ps2.. that should not be hard..”
10.X Core2010-05-09
8,534 dossier reads
DigitalRise X9 Tablet PC
“ok great.. going to buy on.. im sure we can mod a kext for touch screen. did you try the tabletmagic software, it's made for tablets , but it might just work... I have a fuji lifebook 4250 wth SL, everything works awesome, even the table an…”
10.X Core2010-05-05
8,534 dossier reads
iPC 10.5.6 on Toshiba M700, works but with a hitch
“My guess is that , the video is working, but: it must be hitting a refresh rate your lcd can't support. did you try connecting the laptop to a regular monitor from a cold reboot? Try it. Let us know. System Specs: Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo …”
10.X Core2009-04-12
7,768 dossier reads
Assistance on installing mac ipc 10.5.6 or iatkos 4 on hp pavillion dv5 series
“I would first find information on the drivers of each OSX pacakge, Every release is different depending on the author and not all have certain drivers. So you might have to use some from different packages. In the mac world they are called …”
10.X Core2009-04-12
7,369 dossier reads
NOOB ALERT! installing iPC 10.5.6 OSX86 on Acer Aspire One 150
“Everything works except for: 1. No wireless.. (replace the internal card with an original Airport extreme) look in Ebay.. they are cheap. 2. No sleep mode 3. Random crashes at shutdown. 4. 10.5.7 upgrade does not work…i dont know why...I in…”
10.X Core2009-07-15
6,933 dossier reads
install Leopard on a software RAID
“weres the wiki? or instructions?”
10.X Core2009-05-19
41,327 dossier reads