[ydl-gen] YDL 5 installation on Xserve

[Bill Fink]

On Fri, 07 Sep 2007, Aaron Johnson wrote:

> Bill Mueller wrote:
> >>> Two questions:
> >>>     Have you tried a network install?
> >>>       
> >> That's the only thing I'm doing in actual fact
> >>
> >>     
> I have been asked to join this thread as one of the few members of the 
> TSS staff that regularly work with Xserves. I have gotten a G5 Xserve to 
> successfully install configuring software RAID via the GUI interface in 
> the installer for /, /boot, and swap the Apple bootstrap partitions 
> cannot be raided.  Is this a G5 or G4 Xserve you are working with and 
> are you using a text installer or a GUI installer?
> >> But really, I don't *want* to install to the external FireWire drive.
> >> I want to install to a mirror pair (aka Linux software RAID).  This
> >> should be first priority as far as I am concerned.
> >>     
> Installing to a external device is not supported in YDL 5.0.x to the 
> best of my knowledge, so this option is also out in general but I would 
> be more then willing continuing to figure out why software RAID 
> configured in the installer is not working for you.

Hmmm.  It was my understanding that installing to an external FireWire
disk was supported in YDL 4.1 (haven't actually tried it myself).  If
so, does this mean that this capability was dropped for YDL 5.0.x?

						-Bill