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Chapter 5 Installation and Deployment 105
4 If you haven’t already done so, prepare the disks for installation.
For more information about preparing the disks for installation, see “Preparing Disks for
Installing Mac OS X Server” on page 92.
If the target volume has the latest Mac OS X Server v10.5 or 10.4.11 installed, when you
run installer it upgrades the server to v10.6 and preserves user les.
If you’re not upgrading but performing a clean installation, back up the user and
settings les you want to preserve, then use diskutil to erase the volume and format
it to enable journaling:
/usr/sbin/diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ "Mount 01" "/Volumes/Mount 01"
/usr/sbin/diskutil enableJournal "/Volumes/Mount 01"
You can also use diskutil to partition the volume and to set up mirroring. For more
information about the command, see the diskutil man page.
Important: Don’t store data on the hard disk or hard disk partition where the
operating system is installed. With this approach, you won’t risk losing data if you need
to reinstall or upgrade system software. If you must store additional software or data
on the system partition, consider mirroring the drive.
5 Install the operating system on the target volume.
For example, to use Mount 01 in the example in step 4 to install from a server
installation disc, enter:
/usr/sbin/installer -verboseR -lang en -pkg /System/Installation/
Packages/OSInstall.mpkg -target "/Volumes/Mount 01"
If you’re using a NetInstall image, the command identies them as step 3 shows.
When you enter the -lang parameter, use one of the following values: en (for English),
de (for German), fr (for French), or ja (for Japanese).
During installation, progress information appears. While installation proceeds, you can
open another Terminal window to install server software on another computer.
6 When installation from the disc is complete, restart the server by entering:
/sbin/reboot
or
/sbin/shutdown -r
Server Assistant opens on the target computer when installation is complete. You can
now set up the server. For more information, see Chapter 6, “Initial Server Setup.”