Posts Tagged ‘hackintosh’

I just bought bigger hard drives, as I was running out of space with my DNS-320 network storage. Unfortunately, the DNS-320 does not support RAID scaling. So I needed to remove the old drives, set up a fresh new RAID array with the new drives, and manually copy the data over from the old drives [...]

Previously I was able to run my Asus Eee PC 1000HE as a “hackintosh” on Snow Leopard 10.6.0, 10.6.4, and 10.6.7. But I’ve always kept the hackintosh install on a bootable USB drive, as I didn’t want to mess with the original Windows XP install on the 160GB hard drive. I recently purchased a 180GB [...]

Previously I was able to run my Asus Eee PC 1000HE as a “hackintosh” on Snow Leopard 10.6.0, 10.6.4, and 10.6.7. But I’ve always kept the hackintosh install on a bootable USB drive, as I didn’t want to mess with the original Windows XP install on the 160GB hard drive. I recently purchased a 180GB [...]

In a previous post I described how I installed 10.6.0 on my 1000HE and later updated it to 10.6.4. Now I’ve successfully updated it to 10.6.7! The update process was actually pretty easy.

In an earlier blog post, I briefly described how I installed Snow Leopard 10.6.0 on an Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook. I have since upgraded this to 10.6.4 and have documented my complete install process from start to finish below. Borrowing a working Mac, the first step was to install 10.6.0 onto the stick per [...]

I have the very occasional need to run utilities which are only available for the Mac. This isn’t enough use to buy a dedicated Mac for this purpose, but on the other hand borrowing a Mac gets quite old. Lately I had heard of people setting up Hackintosh systems with a Mac OS running on [...]