为你细数温哥华线上线下的故事

I wrote a post on how to install Snow Leoaprd on ASUS P5L-MX motherboard, but some people claims that Google translate doesn’t do a very good job, so I am going to write it in English again. For people who understand Chinese, you will see it’s pretty much the same thing.

ASUS P5L-MX is quite an old board, but it supports most of the things we need for Snow Leopard. If you happen to have this board and don’t know what to do with it, why don’t you follow my post and install a Snow Leopard on it?

What I have for this post:

• ASUS P5L-MX motherboard
• Intel Core 2 Duo E2180
• 2x 2GB DDR2-667MHz
• nVidia 9400GM Video card
• Seagate 500GB 7200.12 SATA Hard drive
• Already-running Mac OS X
• A Snow Leopard installation disc or image file
• Snow Installer
• AzaliaAudio
• Attansic L1 LAN

The process is extremely easy:

1. Run your Mac OS X and format your hard drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format:
2. Insert your Snow Leopard installation disc, or mount up your Snow Leopard image:
3. Choose “Go”–>”Go to Folder” from menu bar:
4. Type in ”/Mac OS X Installation DVD/System/Packages/” (Quotation exclusive), and then double click “OSInstall.mpkg” (NOT OSInstall.pkg).
5. Then it’s quite straight forward, just follow the steps and click next one by one. To increase the successful rate, please don’t select the printers drivers if possible as you could install a specific driver for your printer later on.
6. When the installation is done, please don’t restart your machine since you will need to do the most important patch. Unzip your Snow-installer, you will find there is a file called installnow. Open your Terminal and type in

sudo /PATH TO SNOW-INSTALLER/snow-installer/installnow

(Note: PATH TO SNOW-INSTALLER is your real address, please don’t just copy and paste this line into your Terminal or you will fail 99.99%. To make it easier, you can just drag and drop your installnow file into your Terminal window after you type in sudo .)

Type in your password and then enter, follow the guide you will reach this end. When installnow file processed, you are pretty much finished the installation. Now you can swap your old hard drive out and put in the newly-installed hard drive in (unless you would like to use dual boot)

When you enter the system, just patch your system with the audio and Lan kext and you are good to go.

PS: Credits to those who donated their knowledge and time spent on the hackintosh community.