[ydl-gen] YDL 5 installation on Xserve

[Aaron Johnson]

Bill Fink wrote:
> 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
>   
Unfortently yes, This feature is no longer supported.  My apologizes for 
any inconvince this may cause.

Aaron