With the firmware installed, I’d been gearing up for how to actually install the OS.

First off, I should mention that, for odd reasons, I had a legitimate copy of Leopard that wasn’t going to use. If you’re doing this install, I recommend that you also obtain a legitimate copy of OSX Leopard. Apple sells it for $129, or you can get it here for $109, with free shipping. I’m not sure about the “New and Used” versions for $80, but you may decide to take the risk.

Having acquired a legitimate version of OSX, you’re now going to put it on the shelf. Search your favorite bittorrent site for a distribution called MSIOSX86.iso. This is a version of OSX that has already been modified to include the drivers necessary to make the MSI Wind run nicely on this hardware. The version I installed was based on OS X 10.5.2, and it may have been upgraded by now. There are ways to get your release upgraded to a current version. Right now, it’s all about having a starting point, and I’ll try to cover the upgrade at a later point.

Many people took to burning the OS image onto DVD, and booting from an external DVD drive. Not having one, and not wanting to spend $60 for one, I looked for other options. The best option I found was very similar to what I found for the firmware: Burn the ISO to a USB flashdrive, and boot from there. I found a great set of instructions on how to do that on Dan Cameron’s site.

The short form of what you’re doing to get OSX on to the drive in a bootable manner is to mount the ISO image as a file system. You then use Disk Utility to “restore” that image onto the USB drive. That will result in a USB drive that is (or should be) bootable on Apple Hardware. However, since you’re not using Apple hardware, you need to do a little extra work, which is not mentioned on Dan’s site. To make the drive bootable, you need to use Chameleon, which is one of the tools you can find at the OSx86tools site. Chameleon does all the appropriate magic for non-apple hardware to boot off the USB drive.

Now it’s just a small matter of booting off the USB drive and installing OSX. First, with the machine powered off, install the bootable USB drive. When the Wind powers up, go into the BIOS settings and tell the machine to boot off the USB drive as it’s first option, and save the bios settings. When the machine restarts, it should see the USB drive, boot off of it, and bring you up ready to install. At this point, it’s a normal OSX Leopard installation, and you proceed as you normally would.

I should note that my goal was to have a netbook running OSX. There are people out there who have set up their Wind to triple boot OSX, Ubuntu, and Windows XP. I considered this for a while, and then realized that OSX would really be the only OS to get used. I rarely need a windows box, and I have plenty of other Ubuntu resources generally available to me. It’s nice to have that option available though. If you’re interested in that, a simple websearch should lead you to someplace useful.

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