Can I install the ordinary Snow Leopard onto a Mac Mini Server?

I have a just-purchased 'Mac Mini with Snow leopard Server' (i.e. the model with two hard disks and no superdrive). I also have a copy of Snow Leopard - the ordinary version, not the server version. Although you might think this a weird thing to do, I may want to install 'ordinary' SL onto the Mac Mini. Is there likely to be any problem with that (I am hoping that the result will be more or less identical to purchasing an ordinary Mac Mini, except that I would have 2 disks instead of one and a superdrive)?

I've just discovered this question has already been answered:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2303656

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