Thread-topic: Leopard Installer discs - no CDs, DVDs only
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On 11/21/07 8:33 PM, "Anthony Foxcroft" <email@hidden> wrote:
> You thought about an external FireWire DVD drive? I have an G5 Xserve with a
> cactus DVD drive and Apple want way too much for a replacement so I¹ve hung a
> LaCie off it and it works like a charm. Also give you a degree of portability
> with disk images etc.
I've installed Leopard on my test server, which happens to be a CD-ROM only
Xserve G4, in exactly this manner. I had a salvaged DVD-ROM drive from a
discarded Power Mac G4, and I threw it into a 5.25" firewire drive case.
Booted from the DVD and Leopard installed without issue.
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Salve Regina University
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Newport, RI 02840
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