Today I am sharing a tutorial on how to install OS X 10.6 on a DELL Latitude D630C / D630
Stuff you need
You’ll need to purchase OS X 10.6 at your local Apple store then you need to acquire the following distro “Mac OS X Snow Leopard Universal v3.5” please do ask where to get it, you know where to find it anyways.
Download this ..:: FILE ::.. indispensable for D630 and 630C.
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Download Bootloader2 to boot your installation disk and your new HD install.
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Lets install Snow Leopard!
1. Partition your USB drive or pen drive to have two GUID partition (if you are going to use this as main drive) or one partition if you already have a disk for the install and this will only be your install drive.
2. Install Bootloader2 on both partitions, move the boot file from my folder to your partition/s. It is an hidden file so oyu might want to use terminal
3. Using Windows or Disk Utility on OSX, restore the ISO in one of your partition which you selected as install partition.
5. Boot your D630 or D63C from USB and follow the OS X onscreen instruction.
6. When you see a
7. The installation will finish but you are NOT ready to boot into Snow yet.
8. Move on a computer that runs OSX either 10.5 or 10.6. Plug your USB with the installed 10.6 and move the contents of Extensions (found in the downloaded package) into your Extra/Extensions(of you new installation disk).
9. Now move the contents of Kext into your System/Library/Extensions( new installation disk).
10. Open Disk Utility, right click on your disk and get your unique ID aka UUID, copy this large number and paste it in two places, once in your file called (in your Extra folder of the new installation disk):
and the other is
10. Lastly, copy Kext Utility into your desktop, drop the Extra folder on the Kext Utility icon.
Do the same with your System/Library/Extensions folder. This last step will correct all your file permission and generates two Extensions.mkext files. Put one into
2. Install Bootloader2 on both partitions, move the boot file from my folder to your partition/s. It is an hidden file so oyu might want to use terminal
mv 'location of my boot file' 'root of your partition/s'
3. Using Windows or Disk Utility on OSX, restore the ISO in one of your partition which you selected as install partition.
5. Boot your D630 or D63C from USB and follow the OS X onscreen instruction.
6. When you see a
Customize
button on the bottom right, click on it and select every single kexts and deselect the snow bootloader since you already have Bootloader2.7. The installation will finish but you are NOT ready to boot into Snow yet.
8. Move on a computer that runs OSX either 10.5 or 10.6. Plug your USB with the installed 10.6 and move the contents of Extensions (found in the downloaded package) into your Extra/Extensions(of you new installation disk).
9. Now move the contents of Kext into your System/Library/Extensions( new installation disk).
10. Open Disk Utility, right click on your disk and get your unique ID aka UUID, copy this large number and paste it in two places, once in your file called (in your Extra folder of the new installation disk):
smbios.plist
under the field “UUID-GOES-HERE!”and the other is
Extra/Extensions/PlatformUUID.kext/Contents/Info.plist
10. Lastly, copy Kext Utility into your desktop, drop the Extra folder on the Kext Utility icon.
Do the same with your System/Library/Extensions folder. This last step will correct all your file permission and generates two Extensions.mkext files. Put one into
System/Library/Extentions
and the other into your Extra folder of the new installation disk. Mac Os For Dell D630 Laptop
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This is how it boots: