User`s guide

Chapter 1 Installation and Setup Overview 27
If the target server lacks a keyboard, display, and optical drive that can read your
installation disc, you can use the optical drive on an administrator computer connected
to the target server using a FireWire cable.
You start the server in target disk mode, which makes the target server appear as a
FireWire hard disk on the administrator computer. (When you use this mode, you see a
disk icon for each partition of the server’s hard disk on the desktop of the administrator
computer.) On the administrator computer, you install from an installation disc onto
one of the mounted target server volumes. In this case, you need to complete one
installation before starting another one.
There are other ways to work with a target server that lacks an optical drive capable of
reading your installation disc. For example, you can start up the server from an external
optical drive connected to the target server using a FireWire cable. Or you can use the
optical drive of another computer connected to the target server using a FireWire
cable. Starting the other computer in target disk mode makes its optical drive available
as an external optical drive on the target server.
Administrator computer