Sorry for the delay.   Life is like that.    Hopefully I haven’t left anyone with a half-useful OSX MSI wind.  :)

At this point, you should have an MSI wind running OSX, but it’s probably not quite useful yet.   It should be working, but you may be running an older version of 10.5.    When I did this, I ended up running 10.5.2, at a point when 10.5.5 was current.    As a general rule, on non-Apple hardware, you don’t want auto-update running.    This is very true on the MSI Wind, since an auto-update could render your machine difficult to use.

For my updates, I’ve lived under the “let someone else do it first” philosophy.    By checking the web, I can see where people have had problems, and then react accordingly.   As things were, I was able to upgrade from 10.5.2 to 10.5.5 without much issue.   There are some hacked patches and ktexts that sometimes get overwritten.    Paul’s MSI Wind Driver Utility Pack (found here. After doing an OS upgrade, in theory, running the utilities in this distribution should get your machine back to a usable state. Make sure you have the utility pack on your compute before you do the upgrade, of course.

You may run into occasional pains. For instance, in upgrading from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6, some of the standard patches seem to both make the built-in keyboard and the display suddenly cease to function. This isn’t a problem if you know enough to have a USB keyboard and an external monitor handy. Otherwise, you could be very sad.

Paul has a very good write-up on doing the upgrade, as well as using his tools. on his site.

Tags: MSI, Wind