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Using a Second Xserve System to Install Server Software

This is a simple method for installing or restoring software, but you must have a second

Xserve system with an optical drive to do it. You can install software with a second system

using either of these methods:

m The Terminal application and command-line tools

m Server Assistant

To use a second Xserve system and command-line tools:

1 Shut down your Xserve system and remove its drive module.

2 On a second Xserve system, unmount and remove one of the drive modules (or a blank

module) and insert the drive module from your system.

Note: You should not remove the startup drive module from the second system.

3 Insert the server install CD that came with your Xserve system in the second system’s optical

drive.

4 Use an administrator computer to log in to the second system as root.

See Chapter 17, “Tools for Advanced Administrators,” in the Mac OS X Server

Administrator’s Guide for more information about using command-line tools with the

Terminal application.

5 As the root user type the following command:

% installer

-pkg /Volumes/Mac\OS\X\Server\Install\CD/System/Installation/

Packages/OSInstall.mpkg

-target /Volumes/<the name of the disk to be restored>

-lang <English, Japanese, German or French>

6 While still logged in as root, open System Preferences on the second Xserve system and

select the original startup volume for that system.

You must change the startup disk because the remote installation set the drive you inserted

into the second system as its startup disk.

7 Unmount the volume on which you just restored the software.

8 Remove the drive module with the restored software from the second system, put it in your

Xserve system, and restart the system.

9 Replace the drive module or the blank module you removed from the second Xserve system

and restart that system.

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