| 1. With your drive (USB/External HDD) plugged in, | | | | Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard onto the HP Mini |
| launch Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities) and format | | | | What you need: Snow Leo USB Installer (that you've |
| it. Let's assume we'd named the USB/HDD partition | | | | just created in part one of this guide), HP Mini (this is |
| as "DVD Snow Leo". Note: I normally use GUID & | | | | tested on the 1000) |
| Mac OS Extended (Journaled). | | | | |
| 2. Still in Disk Utility, click on the Restore tab. Drag the | | | | 1. With the USB installer plugged in, switch on the Mini |
| Snow Leo image ("Mac OS X Install DVD") into the | | | | and press F9 as it starts. You'll see the boot menu |
| Source field. Then drag "DVD Snow Leo" into the | | | | screen. Use the up/down arrow keys to choose your |
| Destination: field. Click on the Restore button and | | | | USB Installer from the list and hit the Enter key. Wait |
| wait until the process completes. Quit Disk Utility | | | | until Darwin finish its countdown and boot into the |
| Note: If the Snow Leo Retail DVD image is not listed | | | | Mac OS X Installer Program. |
| at the left pane, simply drag the image there from a | | | | 2. Choose your preferred language etc. On the |
| Finder window, or Click on the Image... button beside | | | | Menubar, go to Utilities > Disk Utility. Format the Mini's |
| the Source field to navigate to the image's location in | | | | internal HDD as GUID & Mac OS Extended |
| your hard drive. | | | | (Journaled). Let's assume it's named as "Macintosh |
| HP compaq mini 110 won't power up | | | | HD". Quit Disk Utility. |
| My | | | | 3. Choose Mac HD as the destination partition for |
| 1. Launch NetbookBootMaker. Select "DVD Snow | | | | installation. You can click on the Customize button at |
| Leo" as target drive from the dropdown menu. Click | | | | the lower left corner to specify which components |
| on Prepare Boot Drive and wait till the patching | | | | you want to install. Note: Normally, I opt to exclude |
| finishes. Quit NetbookBootMaker | | | | printer drivers, all other languages, X11 to save more |
| 2. In a Finder window, Shift+Cmd+G to access | | | | hard disk real estate and include Rosetta (for MS |
| Volumes/DVD Snow Leo/System/Installation | | | | Office:Mac, it isn't Universal binary yet) and |
| Packages. You should see (3) three "OSInstall" files in | | | | QuickTime Player 7, but it's all up to you. |
| there: OSInstall.mpkg, OSInstall.pkg, OSInstall.pkg.orig. | | | | 4. Click on OK, then click on the Install button the |
| 3. Delete OSInstall.pkg. Rename OSInstall.pkg.orig, | | | | start installing Mac OS X on the HP Mini. Walk around, |
| taking out the ".orig" extension so it becomes | | | | grab some Starbucks, read a book, anything - just |
| "OSInstall.pkg". Voilà, you've made your own USB | | | | don't try to blow dry your hair anywhere near the |
| Installer. Note: NetbookBootMaker altered the default | | | | HP Mini while it's installing OS X hahaha ;). The HP Mini |
| OSInstall.pkg file so, basically, what we're doing here | | | | will restart after it's finished installing. Note: Installation |
| is just restoring the default OSInstall.pkg. | | | | won't stall anymore because of what we did a while |
| HP compaq mini 110 won't power up | | | | ago with the OSInstall files. |
| My | | | | |