OS-X Snow Leopard installation on Dell Inspiron 6400

I bought a cheap Dell Inspiron 6400 from Ebay with the intention of trying out OS/X Snow Leopard (10.6) on it.

Pre reqs:

- Dell Inspiron 6400 (preferably a Core 2 Duo).

- OS X Snow Leopard Retail DVD

- iBoot (http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com)

- Multi Beast (http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com)

- Kext Beast (http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com)

Drivers you need:

- AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext (if you have onboard Intel graphics)

- VoodooTSYC.kext

- AppleBCM440XEthernet.pkg

BIOS Settings:

Disable Multiple Cores. We will enable them in the end.

If there is SATA option, select AHCI mode.

Installation Steps:

- Boot from iBoot and on the selection screen swap the DVD with OSX Retail. Press F5 to refresh and select Mac OSX Installation. You should now see a grey screen which an Apple logo. If everything goes well you will see the first OS X installation screen where you select a language.

- In my case, the screen went black for some reason. I tried connecting to an external monitor and it worked.

- From the Menu, Select Utilities -> Disk Utility and format the HD with Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Also click on options to select partition type as GUID partition.

- Continue further and the installation will begin. This will take around 30 minutes to complete.

First Boot:

- Upon reboot, swap the DVD with the iBoot and boot from it. This is because there is no boot loader currently installed on the HD.

- When presented with the selection screen, select OSX or whatever you named your OSX partition.

- Once again, the display will output on the External monitor.

- If you have onboard Intel Graphics, copy the Intel 950 Graphics file 'AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext' to the Desktop and use KextBeast to install it. You can find this file on http://www.kexts.com/.

- If you have NVIDIA or ATI graphics card, you don't need a driver (kext) for it but instead enable the option in Multibeast (See below).

- Reboot and now you should see the output of graphics on the laptop LCD and if your external monitor is connected it will be configured properly.

- Now run Multi Beast and select the following options:

- EasyBeast Install

- Drivers & Bootloaders -> Kexts & Enablers -> Audio -> Universal -> VoodooHDA 0.2.1

- Drivers & Bootloaders -> Miscellaneous -> Voodoo PS/2 Controller

- Drivers & Bootloaders -> Miscellaneous -> Voodoo PS/2 Trackpad

- This should install the boot loader, and other important stuff.

- Reboot now using HD (Eject the iBoot DVD at this stage).

- Now install 'VoodooTSYC.kext' which will enable Core2Duo processor. Install it similarly by copying to Desktop and running KextBeast. Delete the .kext file from desktop after the installation.

- Now finally run 'AppleBCM440XEthernet.pkg' which will install the LAN drivers.

- Reboot and everything should be running.

Finally,

- Go into BIOS and Enable Performance -> Multiple Core option.

Now you have a fully functional OSX 10.6.3

You can download the 10.6.6 or 10.6.7 combo upgrade to upgrade your OS/X. Every time you upgrade, you will need to run Multibeast and select the options described above.