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My hackintosh chronicles

It didn't go as smoothly as I had hoped. It was more time consuming and frankly, scarier than I thought. I wouldn't be surprised if people just fry up a perfectly good netbook trying this. If you don't like following detailed instructions, forget about it.

1. The easy part -- I bought a Dell Mini 10v from Amazon. I didn't get it refurbished from Dell Outlet because... I wanted a red one with a 6-cell battery.
2. I don't really use a USB flash drive, and I didn't have one big enough for this purpose (8gb required). I luckily found a 16gb on sale for around $40 at Best Buy. I know, I know, I probably could have gotten a better deal elsewhere, but I didn't feel like looking around for too long. (I also ended up using an older 4gb flash drive for task #5 below.)
3. I followed these detailed instructions (also here) to prepare the USB drive for installation. But as soon as I plugged it into the Dell and began the actual installation process, I was greeted with an error message: what I thought was a full version of Snow Leopard was in fact only an upgrade DVD. That sucked. I thought I bought a full version for J's Macbook Pro a few months ago. Had I known, I would have bought one when I bought the netbook a few days ago... SIGH.
4. Anyway, after pouting and sulking for two days, I got my hands on a disk image of Snow Leopard, with my fingers crossed that this one wasn't an upgrade version. But when I tried to prepare the flash drive again in Disk Utility, I was greeted with another error message:
   

   Restore Failure
   Could not find any scan information. The source image needs to be imagescanned/scanned for restore

5. Luckily, I found this thread which fixed the problem. (What would I do without Google?)
6. I was back on track, and hopeful. I downloaded NetbookBootMaker on an old 4gb flash drive, and was all ready to start installing again. But then I realized that the Dell 10v's BIOS version needs to be LOWER than A06 -- and I found out mine was A06. Another big, frustrated SIGH. A couple of commenters on the Dell mini forum said A06 worked just fine, but eh... I don't know.
7. So then I had to go find out how to downgrade my BIOS to A04. Geez. They make it sound easy, but for a long-time Mac user like myself, this was reeeeeeeally not that easy. And I have to say, I really hate Windows, so I really hope this works. A netbook running Windows is useless to me. By the way, the guy who wrote the downgrade instructions wasn't kidding. The beeping is REALLY loud and annoying. I'd strongly suggest that you don't do it while your partner is in the same room trying to carry on a Skype conversation with a friend in South Africa. Shockingly, in spite of my bumbling fumbling ways, it worked and my BIOS showed up listed as A04!
8. Now I boot from that other flash drive with OS X Install DVD, and so far so good. The Apple shows up on screen. And the pinwheel spinning, spinning, and spinning. Then finally -- voila! As I write this, the installation has finally begun...
9. At last, my hackintosh is born! It took a few headaches and quite a bit of patience and finger-crossing, but what I have now is a tiny, pretty (!) and lightweight Mac netbook with a working webcam, and close to 8 hours of battery time (cuz I splurged on the 6-cell battery). It's perfect for quick trips to the library and conference travel, etc.
10. By the way, I already found myself the perfect bag.

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