[tech] the Xserve

David Adam zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Mar 4 22:21:55 AWST 2015


On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, James Andrewartha wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, David Adam wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately it refuses to boot the iMac 10.6 discs (apparently requiring 
> > 10.6 Server Edition) and AFAICT it's not possible to buy any 10.7 media 
> > any longer. apparently there is no separate Xserve media for 10.7.
> > 
> > If anyone has either 10.6 Xserve or 10.7 installation discs that they 
> > could provide to UCC we'd like to get an OS X server up and going.
> 
> I asked the Apple guy at work, and he said there's no such thing as a 10.7 
> install disc, but he did lend me a usb spaceman with the installer. I 
> tried booting, but it got video corruption towards the end.

Target disc mode might be the way to go then?

Unfortunately Napoli isn't booting. Again. So we will require someone with 
a Mac laptop and a Firewire cable - the ones UCC have are all FireWire 400 
8-pin to 4-pin, which are enormously unsuitable.

[DAA]


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