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Well isn’t that nice! I was expecting tomorrow to be the release date for 0.8.2 final, but it’s out NOW! A huge thanks to meklort for his work. This release supports patching Snow Leopard, but I still don’t have it so my guide will be delayed two weeks or more. It has also been reported that 0.8.3 work has already begun.

Get it:
NetbookBootMaker Final
NetbookInstaller 0.8.2 Final

And just in time; I was going to begin rewriting the guides tonight! I’ll update the links in Method 1 first before working on Method 2. I also have an external DVD drive for tonight only, so that will be updated as well. Expect some changes on the site throughout the night and coming week!

I am so excited right now, you don’t even know. Ever since February I have been working on a fully-functional guide for installing Mac OS X for users who only have access to a Windows PC. I had made a significant advance back in March when I discovered TransMac, which could read the Mac OS X DVD and transfer an image to a USB drive. Problem was, this required a large storage device, considering that an extra 500 MB was tacked on thanks to Apple’s Boot Camp partition on the DVD also being read for no good reason. So a lot of people have had issues with this…

Well today I just managed to find a technique to trim off that extra Boot Camp junk so that Windows users can use any 8GB flash drive! I had to use an additional piece of software, HFS Explorer, along with TransMac. It isn’t obvious at all how to accomplish this, but if you are like me you will probably smack your head when you see how easy it actually is. Look for the guide this coming week!

Oh, and sorry if I haven’t replied to e-mails. I’ll catch up tonight.