After a couple of months using hackintosh at home, I need to use the similar environment at the office .. as I want to use a better environment
I went with this list:
Gigabyte GA-EP41-UD3L
Zotac 9600GT
Intel Core2Duo E7500 2.93 GHz
Casing with 400 Watt Power Supply Unit
RAM Kingston DDR2/800 2GB
Harddisk SATA 160GB
With the limitation I had [no 8GB or more FlashDisk], I modify some guidance on the hackintosh forum like this.
Pre-requisite:
- Retail DVD of Snow Leopard 10.6.0
- USB Flash Disk [64MB is enough]
- Get ES2L kit from sk1nhd33t posting
- Get DSDT.aml and Sets of LegacyHDA by theBrave here or here
- A working hackintosh or real Mac
Preparation:
Create USB Boot
- Create USB Boot as sk1nhd33t create Boot Installer guide, I ticked: com.apple.Boot.plist; LegacyAppleRTC.kext; NullPowerManagement.kext; OpenHaltRestart.kext; PlatformUUID.kext; SleepEnabler.kext
- Do not copy Bootcamp themes
- Leave /Volumes/[USBFlash]/com.apple.Boot.plist as it is
- Rename /Volumes/[USBFlash]/Extra/CustomExtentions to /Volumes/[USBFlash]/Extra/Extentions
- Copy DSDT.aml from theBrave to /Volumes/[USBFlash]/Extra
- Copy ./series of LegacyHDA 888 (ALC888)/4outs2ins HDA headphone/LegacyHDA.kext to /Volumes/[USBFlash]/Extra/Extentions
- Copy ES2L Kit to the USBFlash
Create installer partition on harddisk
- Plug your new harddisk to a working hackintosh and use Disk Utility to partition it into 2 partitions, with the second partition on the end of the disk around 10GB [give it SnowLeopard and SLinstaller name respectively]
- Use process above to make SLinstaller partition bootable
- Plug the harddisk to the new rig
Installation:
- Plug your USBFlash to the PC, and fire up the rig .. hit Delete on keyboard and choose this USB as the first bootable media, hit F10 and Y
- When screen of bootable Snow appear, hit arrow then choose SLinstaller as the boot media
- Follow the screen of MacOSX installation, choose your harddisk partition as target [I selected all the options in customized with no error at all]
- After it finished [around 30 minutes], it need restart
- Plug your speaker to the green port behind the rig
- On the screen of bootable Snow, hit arrow again and choose SnowLeopard partition
- [sound should be ok] Follow all the remaining installation process
- After it finished, once again do step creation USB Boot above to make SnowLeopard partition bootable.
- Restart the system [don't forget to plug out your USBFlash]
- System should be booted from SnowLeopard partition, and your system should be OK now.
- Connect to internet and update to 10.6.1 and iTunes 9.0.2 [this is what my fresh installation of SL need]
Refinement:
Check TimeMachine can work or not.
Check Dashboard widget addition [a proof of QE/CI functioning well]
OK, I’m a happy hackintosh user …
