System information

32 Chapter 2 Installing Mac OS X Server
What You Need to Install Leopard Server
To install Leopard Server, you need a Macintosh desktop computer or server with:
 An Intel processor or PowerPC G5 or G4 (867 MHz or faster) processor
 At least 1 gigabyte (GB) of random access memory (RAM)
 At least 20 gigabytes (GB) of disk space available
 An active connection to a secure Ethernet network
A standard or workgroup server needs significantly more disk space—such as a high
capacity external hard drive—if you want to back up the server using Time Machine.
(Time Machine backup of server data isn’t supported for an advanced server.)
A built-in DVD drive is convenient but you can attach an external FireWire DVD drive or
a Mac that has a DVD drive and is operating in target disk mode instead.
A display is optional. You can install and administer Mac OS X Server on a computer
that has no display by using an administrator computer. For information, see
“Preparing an Administrator Computer” on page 36.
Some encoding operations require a compatible graphics card.
Your server doesn’t need to be located where someone has constant access to it. When
you need to perform administrative tasks, you can use any Mac that you’ve set up as an
administrator computer.
Unless you have a site license, you need a unique serial number for each server. You
must use a Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard serial number, which begins with XSVR-105.