User`s guide

22 Chapter 1 Installation and Setup Overview
Chapter 2, “Before You Begin,” on page 39 will help you understand what you might
want to do now and what you can postpone until later.
During the planning stage, you’ll also decide which installation and server setup
options best suit your needs. The getting started supplement contains an example that
illustrates server installation and initial setup in a small business scenario.
Installing Server Software
Some computers come with Mac OS X Server version 10.4 software already installed.
Nonetheless, there are several times when you need to install server software, such as
when you want to upgrade from a version 10.2 or 10.3 server, change a computer
running Mac OS X version 10.4 into a server, or completely refresh your server
environment.
You can install server software:
 From the server installation disc
 From an installation image that you set up and store on disk, referred to as
automated installation
Chapter 3, “Installing Server Software,” on page 53 provides detailed instructions for all
the installation scenarios, which are summarized in the following sections.