The Jake dual-boot Netbook Saga liveblog
October 16th, 2009, 8:55pm by JakeOK, here it goes. To get caught up. First bought the HP Mini 110-1020NR. Next, Kelvin supplied a Windows 7 RC disc. The next day, bought 2 8GB USB flash drives. Yesterday, used Win2Flash to put the Windows 7 installer onto one USB drive. Then, stopped at Fry’s and bought Snow Leopard for $24.99. Created an image of the Netbook and saved it to the ReadyNAS in case things get real messed up.
Today, created an image of the Snow Leopard Disk, and I’m currently restoring that image to the other USB Flash Drive.
I’ll update as things progress/ regress. Not sure I’ll be able to get a fully functioning OS X install today, as there are some bits that aren’t working just yet on the 110. So this may stretch out.
October 16th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
OK, first decision is how to partition. I’m thinking 40 GB for windows and 120GB for OS X, or I could create 2 30 GB partitions and have one 100 GB shared partition. Any suggestions?
Also, relying on these two guides for my work.
Snow Leopard Install Guide for Mini 1000.
Multi-Booting guide.
October 16th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Is this thing on? I keep hitting F5 and refreshing for the latest entry 🙂
Sounds cool– what did you use to image the netbook’s XP install? Also, I do thing a shared partition would be cool, but I guess it would need to be FAT32 formatted for compatibility. I think that means time machine won’t like it.
October 16th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
I forgot to blog dinner. Editing the USB image now.
October 16th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
OK, finished making my Snow Leopard USB disk. On to step 2!
October 16th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Now booting with the MacOS X USB drive.
October 16th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
OK, that didn’t take long. Immediate kernel panic, with uptime measured in seconds. Dam. I was hoping to at least be able to run Dis Utility. To be continued…
October 16th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
OK, decided to just upgrade XP to Win7. I’ll hold off on my next attempt until there are clear instructions for the Mini 110. Might be able to do Leopard now, but that doesn’t seem as much fun.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Can’t do an upgrade to Win7. Going to nuke the XP installation. Might try to partition stuff.
October 16th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Yeah, you gotta do a clean install from XP. I think the Win7 disk will let you make a new partition, so you could leave the XP install intact, but I don’t see the point. As long as you have a backup, just reformat the whole disk.
October 17th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Yeah, I nuked XP. Surfing quite well from Windows 7, set up Firefox for the 4th time in just over a week. I was trying to be a little too lazy w/ the OS X install. I’ll have to study up and figure out how doable it is right now.
October 17th, 2009 at 6:46 am
I’ve set up Firefox a couple of times in the past several days, too — Weave makes it a WHOLE lot easier. My netbook’s Firefox installation was the same as my work computer’s (and my Mac mini desktop’s) in about 30 seconds.
October 17th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Yeah, I’m running Weave. It’s the add-ons and Greasemonkey scripts that take all the time. Weave, Twitterfox (now Echofon), Flashblock & Greasemonkey are the must-haves– I actually installed Flashblock before I installed Flash!