Upgraded Wind MacBookNano to 10.5.7 100%
Uncategorized May 15th, 2009 by Shai Perednik
Today I took the plunge and updated my MSI Wind runnnig 10.5.6 to 10.5.7. Normally I would have waited longer before applying a major update. However with recent reports of 5hr battery life on the 6cell u100 I decided to update.
Following this post everything went through fine. I had to remove ffScroll and SmartScroll, reaply the Trackpad driver included in the driverpack and not I’m back @ 100%. No hickups.
Interesting thing is after the update my TimeMachine update was 3.2GB and is still backing up.
Below is the post i followed via the MSI Wind Forums
Download Link: (Current version 1.5)
MSi WindOSX86 Upgrade Pack v1.5
The above driver pack only has the 10.5.7 Update pack to allow you to install the 10.5.7 Combo update and the 10.5.7 Update pack and after your restart you will still have full access to your Trackpad and Keyboard. It doesn’t matter if you are running 10.5.4 or 10.5.6, just follow the instructions and you can easily upgrade to 10.5.7.
New notice in this installer
Here’s what’s included in the PDF guide:
Guide to install 10.5.7 Combo update on MSiWindOSX86 build
Prerequisite:
<follow the Guide included in the download>
Downloads:
The Driver pack with instructions
The Apple 10.5.7 Combo update (Apple web site)
Ready to install:
Download and then install the Apple 10.5.7 Combo update.
DO NOT RESTART!!
Now run the appropriate installer. This will install the missing PS2 kext’s so that when you restart you will have your keyboard and trackpad.
It is now okay to reboot; click whichever “Restart” button you like, it doesn’t matter.
Just to clear up any misconceptions, here’s a screen shot of my system while I was performing the update:
Almost done:
As you may or may not know, with almost any combo or “point” update, your system will restart, begin to boot up but then restart a second time. This is completely normal and to be expected.
Once you are back on your 1024×600 desktop with a working keyboard and trackpad, you may notice you do not have any sound control in the menubar. Perfectly fine and will be fixed on the next reboot. You should notice on the this shutdown that it shows the familiar “Preparing Boot Caches” dialog box. That too is expected and just what the doctor ordered to fix the sound.
Final boot:
You’re done!
21-May-2009: Revised the download to one driver pack. Updated the ApplePS2Controller.kext so that it will display the Trackpad settings in the Mouse/Keyboard prefpane.
10.5.6 Updates:
21-May-2009: revised installer and UNSELECTED the Trackpad option, added new notice regarding Trackpad and dual booting.
20-May-2009: revised the installer and UNSELECTED the Networking option so now you HAVE to select the Networking option (I can’t believe this has caused so many problems!)
14-May-2009: revised networking file, fixed framebuffer file, added battery kext
Tags: 10.5.7, Apple, Build, Leopard, Mac, MSI, MSI WIND, OSX, wind, XP
Hey the link does not work. is there a way to download it or to get it sent to me?
You’ll have to google it. Unfortunately not all these links are 100% legal so they come and go.
Which particular link are you looking for, I’ll see if I can find it.
me too. i recently had to wipe my wind and reinstall from 10.5.6 and now i cant get back to 10.5.7. Well i can but i’m stuck with 800×600 res. and the graphics kext that i use to try and fix it mess my screen up! This is the original driver pack that i used to install 10.5.7 but i cant seem to find them anywhere!
better yet if you can just tell me how to update straight to 10.5.8 that would be awesome!
This link won’t work:
http://code.google.com/p/cybergreghost/downloads/detail?name=MSi%20OSX86%20Upgrade%20Pack%20v1.5.zip&can=2&q=
Says I don’t have permissions?
You can find all the files that user uploaded @ http://code.google.com/u/gregmeach/updates.
Googling for that file returns several places that have it:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=MSi+SX86+Upgrade+Pack+v1.5.zip&aq=f&oq=&aqi=