Starting Up From an External FireWire Optical Drive
If you have an external optical drive with a FireWire port, you can use it to start up your Xserve G5 system from the Mac OS X Server Install Disc 1. Once you’ve started up from the external drive, you can use Server Assistant on a remote computer to install the software.
To start up from an external optical drive:
1Shut down your Xserve G5 system.
2Press the handle of the drive module to open it, which assures that the drive won’t be recognized during startup.
3Connect the external optical drive to the FireWire port on the system’s front panel.
4Turn on the optical drive and insert Mac OS X Server Install Disc 1.
5Start up your Xserve G5 system.
After a few moments, the system begins starting up from the disc in the optical drive.
6When you hear the disc in the optical drive beginning to start up the system, press the handle on the drive module to close it.
The drive module must be recognized as the system starts up so that you can install the server software on it.
7Use Server Assistant on a remote computer to begin installing the software on the drive module in your Xserve G5 system. (See “Remote Installation From the Server Install Discs” in Chapter 4 of Mac OS X Server Getting Started for details.)
8When the Installer restarts the server (after disc 1 installation is complete) and asks for disc 2, insert disc 2.
When disk 2 installation is complete, the server ejects disc 2.
9Use a second remote admin computer to run Server Assistant and configure the Xserve G5 system.
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