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What’s the best, safest way to remotely install & deploy 10.4 server on a network with no existing, running 10.4 server? The Netinstall with Netboot option would require an existing 10.4 server running, so that option is out.
It looks like Server Assistant might do the trick, but I’m unsure of what ports need to opened up on the firewall in order to allow it plus I have the install DVD here with me, not on-site. I would prefer building everything up first and deploying an ASR image, but I’m uncertain of how to deploy that image remotely.
If it comes down to it, I’ll just go on-site to install. I just thought that some of you all might have some experience with this and could offer your advice. Thanks.
I’m just too uneasy about installing this remotely, so I’m going to take your advice and go on-site with an image on a FW drive.
The only question that I have now is what’s the best way to create an image that you’ve created on one particular machine, say a Powerbook, but need to install on an Xserve (both PPC)? Will ASR take care of the hardware differences automatically when I create the image (of course booting from a different startup disk)? Or do I have to use something like CCC to copy everything, remove the hardware specific stuff, and then create an ASR image out of that copy? I worry about this part because I’ve noticed that Netboot/Netinstall ask you to specify targeted hardware.
Sorry for all of the amateur questions, but I’m coming from quite a few years in the Linux & Solaris world. Some of these Mac-specific details escape me.
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