RAID1 Installation of an Apple XServe G5
This is a re-post (an accidental click lost my last post), so it's shorter and less entertaining that it otherwise would have been.
I encouraged a friend to buy an XServe for his business, so it of course became my job to install it. I also told him to buy a second drive so we could set up drive mirroring. So far so good. Connecting Point in Melbourne were able to ship an XServe G5 to Sydney faster than we could get one in Sydney, and it faithfully arrived a few days later. All good so far. I performed the very simple remote installation assistant/wizard - nice and easy. Except it didn't ask me about disk partitioning. Hmm. The supplied OSX Server manual (which is marked as for MacOS X Server 10.3 and above) was fairly useless for setting up a headless XServe G5 with OS 10.4 (supplied). It contained useful suggestions like "connect a monitor to your server" and "consult the XServe manual for instructions on how to boot your XServe from the internal optical drive". The (fairly thick) manual supplied contained very thorough information on booting from an external optical drive, but not the internal one. I also couldn't install the OS X Server admin tools on my 10.3 Powerbook (which the manual promised that I could) - luckily my friend had 10.4 on his 12" Powerbook. That won't help his office once he goes overseas, but hopefully the iMac that we killed by running a 10.4 upgrade on it will be fixed soon! Thankfully, AFP548.com have a great article called Headless Xserve G5 installation instructions. The instructions are for 10.3, but the only difference in 10.4 was some slight name and location changes of the command line tools - otherwise it all worked perfectly. One thing that did have me freaked for a little while was that the installer command line tool counts up to %1.0000 - when it only got to %0.0500 in 5 minutes I thougt I was in for a long night! I still have to figure out how to do software updates and shutdowns remotely with an admin tool, since I don't want to ask my friend's staff to ssh in as root to their server... All in all it was a little disappointing. By far the easiest commercial Unix installation I have ever done, but I was really hoping that it would be a Mac quality experience which it just wasn't. 09:03 AM, 16 Aug 2005 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Short Link | Comments (1) 
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