[ydl-gen] YDL 5 installation on Xserve

[Bill Mueller]

Booting from firewire/USB is a function of your machine. If your 
machine can handle it, so can YDL.  It'll just take a little
extra effort.

We are discussing using the default Graphical Installer not
supporting direct installs to an external device (removing
the "extra effort" noted above).

The original problem pertaining to software RAID is also a
point of this discussion.

Clear enough?

 
On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:36:07 -0400, Derick Centeno <aguilarojo at verizon.net> wrote:
> Geez!  What are you guys doing with MY favorite OS!
> 
> Questions:
> Suppose something happens to my internal Powerbook DVD drive.  I have
> an external unit which houses a Lightscribe drive with Firewire and USB
> ports.  The situation is I've got to reinstall YDL 5, can I do it?
> 
> Or will have to drop down and install YDL 3?  I don't think YDL 3 knows
> what a powerbook 1.67 GHz system is nor does it know anything about
> Airport Extreme. Is there a different solution I'm missing?
> 
> What about a different problem... my internal pb disk crashes.  I've
> got plenty of drives running around, my internal DVD in the powerbook
> is ok.  Now, can I do a fresh install of YDL 5 onto an external HD
> with either Firewire or USB ports and have it boot from that external
> disk?
> 
> I recall running YDL 2 (or was it 3) by tranferring an internal HD to
> an external HD firewire enclosure.  YDL 5 can't boot from either an
> external USB or Firewire enclosure? 
> 
> I'd like to be crystal clear on these points.
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> Personally, I wouldn't mind that a decision was made to drop Firewire
> and support USB instead, but I'd like to know what my options are
> before an emergency comes up.  I'd rather not wait to write to the list
> and await a solution since should any of the situations I presented
> happen ... I won't be able to send a notice at that time.
> 
> So I hope that there is a solution... anyone??
> 
> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:32:49 -0600 Aaron
> Johnson <ajohnson at terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
>> Unfortently yes, This feature is no longer supported.  My apologizes
>> for any inconvince this may cause.
>> 
>> Aaron
> 
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