MSI Wind OSX

I am not suggesting you run OSX on your unsupported laptop, this is only for educational purposes. If you decide to do this, you do so at your own risk.

This will cover installing OS X Leopard 10.5 on the MSI Wind laptop as an only OS. Dual booting will be covered later on.

There are several ways to do this. It can be done either from a retail DVD or from a patched install image, such as kalaway osx, or windosx86.

The easiest way for this specific laptop would be to search for a torrent containing MSIwindosx86. This is an install that was custom made for this laptop, and has already had extra things removed and added to improve usability. To install, simply insert the disc of the torrent into an external dvd reader connected to your wind, and boot from the CD. Once the comptuer boots from the CD, open up Disk Utility, select your hard drive, and under the partitions tab, select single partition. Tell the computer to partition and format the drive With the Mac OS (Journaled) format. There is no need for installing OS9 (Classic) support, as that will not function with Intel Chips anyway. Now just click through everything and tell it to install. Once it id done, the computer will automatically boot into OSX 10.5.4

Now we will update your machine to 10.5.5 and fix the video and sound outputs, as they will stop working with the update.

Simply fire up apples software update, and update everything, including the update to 10.5.5. If you cant get 10.5.5 from there, just download the combo update to 10.5.5 from apples website, and install it separately. At this time, there is still no WiFi working, so just plug it in with ethernet. You can share the internet connection to it from a WiFi enabled computer too.

Now your video should be at 800x600 and you get no sound.

To fix that download and install this package:

special thanks to the guys at MSI Wind forums for this file.

This will fix your screen and sound. Now you should get sound from the speakers and be able to use native screen resolution at 1024x600.

Now we are going to finish making this computer into a perfect little netbook. We'll enable wifi using Realteks new driver. Though not officially released, some of Realteks emplyees have leaked a beta version which works perfectly. Search for "realtek osx wind torrent" and download the driver from any torrent site. Install this and you'll have working WiFi.

For the Headphone Out, first download CHUD Tools 4.6.1 from Apple's Developer Site. You can register with a free account to gain access to download this file.

Install that software.

Next, Download this file
(once again, special thanks to the guys at MSI Wind forums for these files)

And extract it. Move both files to your home folder (not desktop or documents, straight to you home folder), and fire up Terminal.

Once you have terminal open, type:

chmod 755 switch.sh

./switch.sh

Hit enter after every line, and you will be asked for you admin password. Enter it and hit enter again.

Now, you can make a shortcut to the other file (Spk-Hp Switch) to your dock. When you open it, it will ask for your admin password every time. You must enter it and hit OK.

What this Spk-Hp Switch does, is it switches your audio from you speakers to you headphone jack, so if you want to use your headphone jack, simply plug headphones in, and run Spk-Hp Switch. If you want to switch back to speakers, run it again.
One thing to note, is that after a reboot or waking up from sleep, the computer will automatically be in external speaker mode, so to use headphones you must simply run Spk-Hp Switch, and switch to the Headphone Jack.

Well, I hope you find this useful. This method worked for me and everyone I know who has used it. It is very easy to do, and doesn't take long at all. All the hardware you need is an MSI Wind netbook and a USB DVD drive.

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