Journal04, Installing iAtkos 5i on Dell D610

First of all i tried using the OSX 10.6 from leohazard and it resulted a kernel panic. My other option would be using the iAtkos S3 or the iDeneb 10.6.6 (and both still 10.6). It kept me thinking, why waste time on experimenting on the 10.6 why not just downgraded to 10.5 and experiment 10.6 later. So i did, before i made this blog i already experiment on the IPC 10.5.6 which was recommended by a thread in insanelymac (you can check it out here). For my case it resulted also a kernel panic.

There are so many available distros outhere like the IPC, iAtkos and Ideneb. In fututre time I'll try to install using Ideneb but now I am going to install a hackintosh on my dell d610 using an Iatkos 5i.

After restoring it on "disk utility" and patch it with chameleon bootloader using "myhack" (all of those mentioned is using a mac, if you have a window use transmac which you can check it out here) I finally get it done to boot. After some few tries (cause I failed couple of times to install) I figure out that there were some tweaking on the "customize" setting to get it done. With some trial-error effort, this is the list of "customize" menu setting which I finally get it to work (except the wifi, which later i'll discuss it here). If you want, you can also look into it here for some reference but the "customize" menu setting in that site need some changes (which I took some time to understand and made some changes on my own below). Below is the "customize" menu setting I used to get it to work. (the tick mark is as shown in the menu, see pictures)

-iAtkos v5i main system √

-Bootloader

   -chameleon √ (i use this instead PC EFI V9 as in the thread)

-x86 patches

   -Decypters

      -appledecrypt √

   -SMBIOS drivers

      -SMBIOS enabler

         -SMBIOS-EFI air √

   -Kernel

      -9.5.0 Kernel Voodoo√

    -ACPI

      -x86 ACPI √

    -Disabler.kext √

-Driver

   -VGA

      -ATI

         -HD 2xxx 3xxx √

         -EFI strings for ATI

            -HD3400 √

      -Intel

         -X3100 √

         -EFI strings for Intel √

   -System

      -SATA/IDE

         -Intel SATA √

         -VIAATA √

      -Speedstep

         -Intel speedsetep a √

      -laptop battery √

      -NTFS 3G √

   -Network

      -intel pro/100 √

      -broadcom 440 x √

So there you are, just click "done" and install it. I suggest that you familiarized yourself with the OSX environment and savor every moment to understand before you decide to install apps or anything (putting kext and installing stuffs). The original thread also included a link to the apps for the wifi in "iwidarwin". In my case, it fails and you can see the post I wrote here, you can try it and if it fails too you can experiment by installing with the use of an alternative distros. enjoy!