Installing Mac OS X server

A variety of installation methods are available for Mac OS X server. G5 Xserve and the later models of G4 comes with a built-in DVD drive that may be used for installation. Alternatively hard disk cloning by using Synchronize Pro. X or native OS utility 'Disk utility' may be used. Take out a disk from the target server and plug-in the source server. Use synchronize pro to create a bootable disk out of the imported hard disk. Put the disk back in the target server and use Synchronize Pro X again to clone it to other disks. Disk utility can be used to create RAID sets featuring the disk. It can also create partitions from single disk. Remote installation can be done by using 'Server Assistant' utility which is part of Server administration tools. The tools can be installed on either Mac OS X or Mac OS X server.

Startup option in system preferences allow to choose a disk to boot from.