install on xserve

[Bill Fink]

On Thu Dec 5 2002, Bill Fink wrote:

> On Thu Dec 5 2002, Tim Landschoot wrote:
> 
> > >>>the mouse and keyboard are locked out.  I guess it's a "security"
> > feature.  :-(
> > 
> > I noticed this is the case when I boot OS X on the Xserve.  But it does
> > not appear to lock out the mouse and keyboard in YDL. Anybody have it
> > lock in YDL?
> 
> You're probably right.  I was having a lot of different problems
> with doing the install on the XServe and may have blurred some of
> them together.  Now that you mention it, that particular problem
> with the front panel key lock locking out the keyboard and mouse
> may have been only when I initially tries using OS X on the server
> before actually starting the YDL 2.3 install (using the special
> XServe ISO image).

Just a quick followup.  I just did some tests on our XServe, and
verified that the front panel key position (locked versus unlocked)
has absolutely no effect on use of the mouse or keyboard.  The only
hickup I noticed was that with the special YDL 2.3 XServe ISO image
using the text-install-safe, the very first keyboard input appears
to be ignored but subsequent keyboard input works fine.

						-Bill