OSX on Mini Final Status

After months of screwing around with trying to get OSX installed on an HP Mini 110, I'm giving up for now. Here's what I have unsuccessfully tried:

1. Netbook Installer Method 
2. Netbook Installer 2 Method 
3. Using a USB DVD player with a Chameleon Bootloader
4. Making a Snow Leopard LiveUSB
5. Imaging my running VMWare image onto the disk

At this point, I'm just going to upgrade to a larger disk and run OSX in a Virtualbox. There are too many other cool things I can do without spending another month imaging and reimaging USB keys and hard drives.

Hopefully a newer easier method will emerge.

OSX on an HP Mini

For the last few weeks, I've been working on deploying OSX on an HP Mini 110-3030NR. I've run into some (really tons) of issues and clever tricks and will spend the next few days posting about them in the hopes of helping others attempting the same process.

Here's what I've got:

• The HP Mini (awesome netbook by the way) - currently running Windows 7 Starter. I've upgraded the RAM to 2GB and not much else.
• A working VM image running OSX (I used the Snowy_vm method). Make sure you shut off power management and if can't get it to work, try it on a different computer. It wouldn't work on my i5 but had no problem with my core duo.
• A retail copy of Snow Leopard
• one 80GB USB drive (I originally tried this with an 8GB SD card but found it too small to hold the installation DVD
• one copy of Netbook Installer

I'll post back once the OS is installed.