Upgrade OS on Xserve (late 2006)

We have an late 2006 Xserve, running Leopard 10.5.8.
I checked mac. OS support - should be 10.7.5
But when I try to update to SL or ML it does not work.
I tried to boot from DVDs, also with an external drive and USB-drive.
No luck. Any ideas?

Hi there,
The version of Leapord you probably have on there is 10.5.8 Server. You can't upgrade directly with the SL client you'd need the server version. That Xserve will only officially go to Lion rather than Mountain Lion. You can look on the internet for ways of getting Mountain Lion to install but it's not worth it.
Hope that helps
Beatle

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