<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 31/03/2009, at 4:28 PM, David Wikeley wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi all,<br> I am wanting to install 10.5 Server on our old G4 Xserve but this only<br>has a CD drive. Apart from using an external DVD drive is there a way to do<br>the install?<br><br>I have had a look at Server Assistant which supposedly allows you to do<br>remote installs to a server, but this cannot see the server in question (ip<br>address, DNS name or browse).<br><br>Any other suggestions? I don't want to stop another server to do an install<br>via target disk mode.<br><br>-- <br></div></blockquote></div><div>A couple of suggestions:</div><div><br></div><div>1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>put a laptop with a DVD drive and firewire (!) into Target Disk Mode and plug it into the XServe via Firewire. the XServe will see the disk in the drive</div><div><br></div><div>2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(my favourite) Partition a drive into 3 partitions - 2 small (about 10G). Use Disk Utility to Restore the install media onto one partition. Use the OSX Client installer to Restore to the second partition.</div><div><br></div><div>Go nuts - put the combo updaters for both onto one of the partitions, use the remnant for backing up the server once its installed</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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