Installing Leopard server on the servers that only come with Snow Leopard
Has anyone ever "downgrade" - installing Leopard server on the servers that only come with Snow Leopard installer disc??? Is there anything special involved?? Or can I just pop in a Leopard Server installation disc from previous generation servers and procede?? These servers are going to be a part of Xsan. And with my previous horrible experience with Snow Leopard and Xsan, I am really trying to avoid going through that again... Thank you!
The general answer is yes. But the conditional answer is that you must have the original installation media from the Xserve model before it started shipping Snow Leopard exclusively. This means you would need to have bought an Xserve as recently as December to have the combo OS pack as I believe Apple stopped shipping Leopard around early January (although that might be on BTO models so if you got one from the channel it may still have the original media kit). You need to be mindful of the machine's Boot ROM version. The change of one digit can cause some issues with older installation media.
If you don't have recent media kits, you "should" be able to construct a functional OS by building on other hardware and patching up to 10.5.8. Then cloning it to the new unit.
And, you've peaked my interest. What specific issue have you had with 10.6 and Xsan?
Hope this helps
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