Take a look at this article for a full install guide for OS X/Leopard!

Any progress on the stock Wifi Atheros AR5007eg? To be honest I don’t want to remove this card, (bt3) supports it nicely. I actually have a quad booting system functioning very well w/a backup partition for all my hd-images. The only 1 BIG problem that lingers is this non-working wifi card. I’ve read about the method w/running kismac, although I did not share in the success.

I’m running 10.5.6 via the mysticus dvd. I noticed i still had to install kexts for video and sound…

Stuart, you mentioned sleep works well? The smibios kext I have sleeps my machine however I am not able to bring it out of sleep. Do you know what version you have?

If you’re wanting to run OS X on top of Windows or Linux, then I don’t think that this is currently (easily) possible… as with the different boot-loaders and drivers required to emulate various parts of the system to boot Leopard on a netbook, the virtualisation software would have to provide the same features. So far as I’m aware Apple to allow for Virtualisation on OS X Server’s license, which suggests that it it possible in some form – but I believe this is to account for running multiple copies of Server on Mac Pros or Xserves.

http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/downloads#Audieee-NC10.dmg

I’ll try to get something done this week though, as the beauty of the efi_boot approach is that it really is very simple to get up and running!

I came across your blog after searching Google on how to install a retail copy of OS X on the NC10 as I dont particuarly like installing hacked version of software, espcially Operating Systems. Anyway, I was wondering if you could perhaps provide a quick how-to along with any files you used to get your retail copy installed? I realise this is a big ask but you seem to be the only person Ive come across installing OS X on the NC10 in the correct manner. I have OS X 10.5.4 on DVD and am a newbie to the whole hackintosh scene. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. I hope your mac is working out for you. Look forward to your reply.

Thanks!

I’ve also got the NC10 loaded with OSX and my main annoyance is the lack of brightness controls. I can live with the audio bit but would really like the option of brightness controls.

I’m also actually booting with options into Win7, XP and Ubuntu – just to play around.

My NC10 does not have the SIM card slot. When I opened it to replace the WLAN NIC i noticed the empty space on the mainboard for the mini PCI-E hsdpa card. It shouldn’t be too difficult to add one of these with a steady hand during soldering and the right molex connector for the card.

That’s indeed bad news about the codec. I’m afraid I don’t have anything to offer as an idea since I’ve not even looked at the sound issue. Meanwhile my USB sound stick should arrive sometime so I can at least use skype with a headset when necessary.

(Out of interest, does your NC10 have a 3G SIM slot in the battery bay?)

Scrolling is a pain because the hardware seems to have edge-acceleration turned on by default, and the Mac has no way to configure this. Tapping, however, is in the Keyboard and Mouse System Configuration applet, although it’s turned off by default.

Some bad news: I tried dropping the ALSA dump into HDA Enabler 1.20, and it just said “Unrecognised codec”

Well that sounds really good what you’re saying. It was already a fairly straightforward experience once I had it booting with the Dell Mini ISO but I’m sure if you could wrap it all up in a installer/script that would help out those without command line experience .

Have you had any problems with bluetooth? Mine seems to be working sometimes. Before updating to 10.5.5 it used to be off after boot-up. Sending the NC10 to sleep and waking it up would enable bluetooth again. Now after the update to 10.5.5 it worked once fairly well (I even managed to establish a bluetooth PAN but with mediocre speed & latency) and now it shows “off” again…

Have you installed any tweak to make scrolling easier? I also noticed that tapping to click doesn’t work – which is probably a mac thing – I’ve never owned one before but I’m a convert now!

(I also re-wrote the AppleScript installer program from the Dell utility to be more fault-resilient and to remove a couple of mistakes – so I might repackage the installer to be NC10-specific with the latest bootloader, a working set of kexts, and any other updates I find).

I’ve been toying with the idea of getting the MacBook Air USB ethernet adapter from my local Apple Store, just to check that it works… and I’m sure it’ll come in handy at some point

I’ve just done the update to 10.5.5 and it went flawless! What a great experience to install the update directly from Apple without anything breaking. I managed to get bluetooth to work fully (I couldn’t connect to a bluetooth PAN under 10.5.1) but the speeds for internet access using the PAN are painfully slow. Luckily I have other backup plans how to access the internet when I’m on the road. Since I own a WM phone I used WMWifiRouter for the moment which works great.

I do get the artifacts in iTunes as well but as I said the graphics chip worked OOB with the Dell Mini ISO. I also managed to get the AppleAzalia kext working while it is loaded from the EFI partition.

I’m very happy so far with the state of OS X on my NC10. It’s very usable. Minor annoyances are not being able to change the display brightness and the missing internal MIC + switch to headphone port.

Once you finish sanitizing your kext collection I’d be delighted to test your setup. Do you plan on writing a HOWTO on insanelymac? If you’re not I could be tempted as I think this is so cool that it definitely needs to be shared with the community. I’d obviously credit you with the success since you’ve been doing all the work.

I know it’s not going to be a HOWTO for everyone since installing from retail DVD requires at least a working network interface (e.g. USB-WLAN or exchanging the internal WLAN NIC – what we did) but I think there will be a lot of people who’d be very very grateful if there was a HOWTO.

BTW, obviously I’m writing this from OS X running on my NC10. Best value for money ever spent on PC hardware in my opinion.

I did update to 10.5.5, but did so by downloading the Combo Updater from Apple’s Downloads site. Having said that, I do this for my real Macs too, because if you use the Delta updater then some files are left not matching their receipts, and so Disk Utility complains about them if you ‘Repair Permissions’.

Bear in mind that you should have all your kexts on the EFI partition prior to upgrading, though, as the update is liable to change them in unhelpful ways…

Interestingly, I didn’t get full resolution until I updated the supplied GMA950 kexts, so there may be a new version included, or your setup might be slightly different to mine… Do you see occasional corruption when using iTunes? I get things like blocks rendered out of place, or the mouse cursor appearing to stick on the window.

I’m just sanitising my kext collection over the next few days – I want to swap dsmos.kext for AppleDecrypt.kext (which is apparently 20% faster), try to get HDA Audio working (for headphone output) with a Linux codec dump, and see whether the native GMA950 driver can be convinced to work by adding EFI strings to com.apple.Boot.plist.

Could I ask you for a really big favor? If possible could you upload the contents of your /Volumes/EFI/Extensions directory to mediafire or a similar site? I’m sure your current setup is a lot more refined and it would take me ages to get around all those tweaks.

I’d also like to update to 10.5.5 via the Software Updater. Have you done that yet? According to the general idea of booting from the EFI partition it should be possible.

Again my deepest gratitude for your great work!