OSx86 - Thinking about picking up an HP Mini 1000

[pdmcmahon]

As suggested by the pre-cursor to the title, has anyone here loaded an HP Mini 1000 with a "fruit" OS? If so, was it pretty straighforward?

I quick search of the Googles reveals stories of many who have tried and failed.

Thanks in advance.

[ThehAWKs]

Getting retail Leopard running on a hp mini 1000 is not an easy task if you don't know the basics. first you need to get a dump of your acpi dsdt so you can fix it, then kexts aka drivers for audio, LAN.

you must have a working install of mac os x to do everything then you can do the install from a USB drive. After all that you can update just like a real mac.

Video of hp mini 1000 running osx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHednFbPK3U

all the info you will need

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/

Edited June 24, 2009 by THEHAWKs

[ThehAWKs]

Oh and you can check this site out to

http://myhpmini.com/forum/

[pdmcmahon]

Good stuff, thank you brother.

Say hi to Brooklyn for me.

[Rudy]

I don't know about the HP but it was a snap to get on my Dell ;)

[ThehAWKs]

I don't know about the HP but it was a snap to get on my Dell ;)

its a snap if your not doing a Retail install of Leopard but with a modifed Osx86 Disk its as simple as 123 :)

[ultimate99]

its a snap if your not doing a Retail install of Leopard but with a modifed Osx86 Disk its as simple as 123 :)

I'm pretty sure Rudy used a retail dvd. ;)

Probably also used another cd for boot loader, kexts, etc..