Before I even begin, I would like to give credit where it is due. I used this article to guide me through the installation but I added a few steps along the way including how to do the installation from an External USB Hard Drive as opposed to an External DVD or USB Thumb Drive (Both are also options). I would also like to thank all of the folks that found all of the drivers mentioned and linked to in this post.

I should also mention (As mentioned in the article above) that the WiFi (Airport) does not work out of the box nor does the sound or power options (Sleep, Dim etc.) or the LAN connection. The wireless is an easy fix but I am still working on the others and will post my results, if any, when I find a solution.

Lets Get Started!

  1. Get a USB External Hard Drive if you do not already have one and Delete Partitions. Then create a 5 Gig FAT32 Partition. You can use the rest of the space as you see fit. I used the rest as an NTFS partition so that I could transfer files back and forth from my Vista Machine to the S10 (MAC) knowing that I would have no network connectivity to download WiFi Drivers.
  2. Download the following applications:
    a. Leopard HD Install Helper – HERE
    b. MSIWindowsx86.iso – Sorry, you will have to hunt this one down!
  3. Run the Leopard HD Install Helper. Select the Image (MSIWindowsx86.iso) and The Destination drive (The FAT32 Partition) and click the start button. You may notice that the app is in a different language or is all question marks. Included in the Zip file is a GUI reference image.
  4. Once you have accomplished the above tasks, Restart the S10 and During boot, Hold the “FN” key and push the “F11″ key (FN+F11 = F12 for Boot Menu).
  5. Select your USB external Hard Drive to boot. You will receive an error stating “No Operating System Found”, hit enter and you will be presented with the boot selection screen. Choose MAC Installation and Push Enter.
  6. Once in setup, Choose your language and click next.
  7. You should now be at the Welcome Screen. You now need to prepare your internal hard drive for the installation. Click “Utilities > Disk Utility”.
  8. At this point, you need to choose what drive to format and create partitions on. I went with the internal HDD which had XP Pro on it. erase/format the drive. I went with Mac File System (Journaled).
  9. After this step is complete, click the continue button on the Welcome Screen and select the newly formatted drive to install the OS to. Click install and go get some coffee, it will be a while.
  10. Once you reboot after the installation completes, you will be asked if you wan to transfer information from another Mac or backup and various other options. This typically results in an endless loop of rebooting regardless of your choice. You can bypass this step by booting with the -s option as follows:
    a. when you boot the machine and before you reach the login page, hit any key.
    b. You should now be at the terminal, type /sbin/fsck -fy and hit enter.
    c. Then type /sbin/mount -uw / and hit enter.
    d. cd to /Volumes/YOUR DISK HERE/var/db and type touch .AppleSetupDone and hit enter.
  11. After completing the steps above, type passwd to set a root password for the laptop. Do not forget this password. Type exit and hit enter to reboot.
  12. At the login window, login as root with the password that you just created. Go to System Preferences and create a regular user to your specifications. Log out as root and back in as the user you just created.

 

You are now running OS X on your Lenovo S10 but the WiFi still does not work. This is a relatively easy fix and can be accomplished using the instructions below.

 

  1. Unplug the USB drive from your new OS X Installation and plug it into a machine with Internet access.
  2. Download the Drivers from this thread – HERE and extract the files to your external hard drive on the second partition that you created. Plug the drive back into the S10 and copy the extracted file to your home directory.
  3. To install the Driver, open a terminal window and cd to your home directory if necessary. type sudo ./bcm43xx_enabler_0.5.1pre.sh and enter your password when prompted (Alternatively you can log in as root and follow the same procedure minus the sudo). Accept all defaults and reboot. You should now be able to connect to your wireless network.
  4. I then updated the sysytem with System Preferences > Software Update. It is safe to update to 10.5.5 and all other updates that may be available although You will need to run the network installation script mentioned above after the update. This also breaks the screen resolution requiring you to install yet another driver (Read On!).
  5. Download the video drivers HERE as well as Kext Helper HERE (and please, RTFM with Kext Helper!)
  6. Once you have downloaded those packages, unzip them and drag the Kext files into Kext Helper, type in your Root password and click easy install. Reboot.

 

That is as far as I have gotten with mine as well like the forum mentioned at the top and the guide that I followed. I am going to try to work on the sound as well as the Power Options and LAN connection over the next few weeks and will post any results in the future.

 

UPDATE:After alot of google searches, I got the audio to work on the S10 Under OS X. Thanks to THIS post. It was actually pretty easy to execute, just took a while to find the article linked above!:

You need the following applications:

Basically, all that has to be done is to Remove AppleHDA.kext if it is installed (System Drive > System > Library > Extensions). Install AzaliaAudio and Re-Boot. Install the Apple Developer Tools. Launch Audieee.

That’s It! Now your sound should work flawlessly. I also put Audieee in my start-up programs under my user preferences so it auto starts when I log in.

Jason (Digitalkid)
www.954network.com