Many of use always believe in checking before buying. You can do that easily by going in your nearby shop and viewing the demo product. But for advance work like software or hardware testing we prefer to run a sample on our system to get a better feel of the same. This guide is just for the same purpose to provide you and way, by which you can run OS X on HP Mini 110 series laptop and check that how an ultra-portable can perform on Mac operating system.
The below guide will help you to install OS X on HP Mini 110 series laptop using iDeneb. There are many other guides which you can use to install better version of Mac operating system. There are several issues in installing this operating system on non-apple devices. But there are enthusiast who wants to test and run Mac based operating system on their current system. There are number of boot loader also which makes your job easier, but there are many bugs. And that is due to different hardware architecture. Those who own an ultra-portable laptop like Hp Mini can use this guide to run OS X on it. But this is a testing purpose guide, you cannot use a commercial operating system for free. There are some legal fees that you have to pay to the manufacturing company.
The guide describes many process which leads to extreme modification of systems hardware and firmware. So that can be a bit risky if it is not performed well. So the entire risk lies on you. Better go through this guide and many other guides and tutorial also before performing any changes. This guide can recommended for this who has better knowledge about formatting and creating multi boot disc. There are certain pre-requirement that you have to follow before doing this. And if you do not meet this pre-requirement then better avoid the below steps.
Note : Remember that using Apple operating system without purchase on your system can be illegal. So be ensure that you had found an authorized copy of the operating system.
MAC PC
The below entire process if for Mac OS X System. For those who want to do this on Windows can skip the below and jump to Windows part.
Pre-Requirements :
- First you must ensure that that the netbook must have at least 16gb of free space. Better if more than. You can keep an dedicated partition separate for this. Enough free space is essential for partitioning and creating a boot media for OS X. Lack of space can cause failure of entire process.
- Verify that the bios version of HP Mini 110 series laptop is above 5.0. The setup cannot work on lower version of bios. You can run the updates if you can found any better source of bios download.
- You need an flash drive or an external usb drive. The minimum space recommended for the same must not be less than 8GB. Also keep an usb mouse ready for further process.
- Download iDeneb version 1.3. It is not recommended to go with any other version. I tested on this and it worked fine. But if you want you can try another version on your own.
- For running Mac OS X on Hp Mini there are some patched files which are needed at the time of setup and after that. This files are kext, gui patch, osx86tools, uinstaller, etc. I am here providing an list of files below which you have to find on your own. You can search on web : HP Mini OS X Essential Files. There are many sites which are providing this. Below list is just an reference you can use.
**OS X Files for HP Mini :
- DSDTPatcherGUI
- Kexts
- OSX86Tools
- Uinstaller
- DDmac
You collect this files and download the same. Luckily I just found the Kexts file. The file is attached on 4shared. Try this download Link
How to create a bootable iDeneb Disc :
Before beginning one thing I will ask you to first create an iDeneb OS X version 1.3 disk image. Keep an multiple copy of the same. You can download it from the web. Download only the 1.3 version only. Because I found this as the most stable one, and there is no bugs also. It is also right that many of your hardware or app will not work on this. But atleast you have a look how the interface of this operating system is and its performance.
You can create a bootable iDeneb disc in many ways. There are some ready to use installation programs on web which helps you to generate an automated disc. I am mentioning a similar step to that. Usually it is recommended to use this via USB flash drive for better speed. Many time I had faced a bug while running setup and making changes via CD. Usb flash drive are more reliable and you are aware that every ultraportable supports usb boot disc. You can use an usb dvd drive also but I am not sure that this work or not. So the easiest way is to go with an usb drive. Before beginng you will need to create an Mac bootable partition. That can only be done with the help of system which has Mac OS X. An tool called Disk Utility is used for this purpose. Mac based system cannot read Fat32or Ntfs drives. They have different kind of partition format.
Creating iDeneb Mac OS X bootable USB drive on MAC
If you cannot manage an Mac system then you can use EFI disc. This cd can give you Disk Utility support. It is an bootable disc. This is an alternative way to format the usb drive on Mac readable partition. The first process begins with creating a usb drive that Mac operating system disc can recognize. This is an very crucial step and ensure that it is done properly.
- Run Disk Utility. It is located in Application > Utilities.
- In the window on the left side you can see the drivers listed. Choose the pen drive and then click on Erase.
- Now click on Volume Format > Mac OS Extended > Erase
- Once things went fine there then click on Restore. When you will click on Restore you will need to provide the location of .iso file of iDeneb image file. Provide the place where it is located. When you find the same click and choose it.
- Now you can see the iDeneb image file in Disk Utility window. Now there is an bit drag and drop operating here. So you must read this carefully. Now you can see iDeneb on the left side. There you can 1 more image which is quiet located next an Apple logo. Have a look on the same properly. You have to now drag that image at the source location. Once you did that properly and you can see the path then the next step comes is providing the destination. For this you have to drag the usb drive to the destination. This is easy once you understand you have to give the image location parth and then usb drive for destination. Then click on Restore.
- Once you done with properly then run UInstaller. In this choose the formatted drive. You will need to tick some options here. Tick on Install PC_EFI v9 Chameleon Edition 1.0.12. Chameleon is an bootloader which is very necessary to allow Mac OS X boot from drive. If this bootloader is not installed you cannot run Mac OS X after reboot. Click on Install to install the bootloader. I had told you to keep some files ready above. You must keep the files separately copied in an flash drive.
- An bootable iDeneb image is created now. You can now boot your laptop with the usb drive to get Mac OS X Installation menu. This was the just the primary part where we were creating a bootable media to run Mac OS X. Connect your usb and boot from usb. You can make those changes in the BIOS or choose the appropriate boot menu. Now you can being your Mac Installation.
Creating iDeneb Mac OS X Bootable DVD on MAC
- The above process was for using an usb drive and installing Mac OS X. But you can also do the same by using an DVD. Some of use surely need this.
- The start process is similar where you have to Run Disk Utility. When you are on Disk Utility then choose the iDeneb image file and click on Burn button. You have to now connect an usb dvd drive with an blank dvd. Now restart your HP Mini laptop and choose USB DVD as the boot media. Here you will also need some usb drivers and some black cd to burn necessary file. Keep a copy of all those files which I had mentioned on the start of guide on disc or usb.
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