Q: Stuck on gray screen on install of snow leopard server....
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Feb 26, 2013 4:44 PMby Grant Bennet-Alder,You are not getting out of the gate on that Server Installer DVD.
My guess is that the version of Mac OS X on that Server disc is too old to boot your Mac. (It appears to require minimum custom 10.6.4 for a Mac Pro 5,1).
So instead, Install "regular" Mac OS X, Update it with Software Update, and then install only the "Server" software. There should be a separate sub-Installer that installs just the server-part, on top of a pre-Installed Mac OS X.
Post back if you need more help, I run Server 10.6.8 and can look on the release discs for stuff.
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Feb 26, 2013 5:16 PMby A Flinders,Just got off the phone with apple enterprise support......they think it's a faulty install disc, given the tactics I tried......
But now that I look at the install disk, and see that it says 10.6.3 Im getting worried....
Do they have a server install dvd for 10.6.4?
Do I call Apple support back and have them send me > 10.6.3 sever/nonsever snow leopard edition?
(it took me an hour to get to the point where they would send me a second disk, as they already sent me one already)..
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Feb 26, 2013 5:34 PMby Grant Bennet-Alder,The Server software consists of a perfectly ordinary 10.6 Install, PLUS: a multi-package off the Installer DVD, which will then update with software Update. There are TWO ways to Install Server:
1) Insert the Server DVD and tell it to Install. This is not working for you because your Mac Pro 5,1 shipped with 10.6.4 as a minimum.
2) Install regular 10.6, update to 10.6.8, THEN add the Multi-package Installer from the DVD that contains only the Server "magic", no OS.
I am hunting down the DVD and will add more info within an hour.
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by Grant Bennet-Alder,Feb 26, 2013 6:32 PM
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DesktopsI know the name of the package with the server "stuff" and where it is:
Mac OS X Server Install Disc /System/Installation/Packages/ServerEssentials.pkg
I am working on how to Install it.
Mac OS X Server 10.6: Installing Mac OS X Server on a Mac OS X computer
The movie version: Double Click on the Install Mac OS X Install Application on the DVD. If it cannot RESTART, the Button will say INSTALL and if you are running 10.6, when you click it will do just that.
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Feb 26, 2013 7:05 PMby A Flinders,Hmmm.....
When I insert the disk, I see this;
If I click "install" it will then restart the computer, and try and boot off of the DvD and then hang, as described..
Within the DvD the contents are;
Within the package contents of "Install Mac OSX Server" is;
So......I do not (unfortunatly) see this as a solution. (unless I'm missing something?)
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by Grant Bennet-Alder,Feb 26, 2013 7:11 PM
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Yes, you are missing something. You only get the Install Button (as opposed to the Restart button) When 10.6.8 is ALREADY on the Drive you are running from.
If you have the original-issue 10.6.4 that shipped in the Mac Pro box, that could also be used directly. If you bought this Mac as a server, it may have only shipped with a Server disc.
_OR_ You can get an "ordinary" 10.6.8 image on that disk by using a "Full Retail" Installer (these contain drivers for every appropriate Mac), Installing on another computer, then Software update to 10.6.8. Then swap drives or clone onto the Server startup drive, or start from an external.
Then use the article above to ADD server to the 10.6.8 already installed.
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Feb 26, 2013 7:10 PMby A Flinders,Hmmm......
"You can get an "ordinary" 10.6.8 image on that disk by using a "Full Retail" Installer (these contain drivers for every appropriate mac)"
So I need to request a non-server addition "Full Retail" snow-leopard installer DvD from Apple?
"Installing on another computer, then Software update to 10.6.8. Then swap drives or clone onto the Server startup drive, or start from an external."
I'm confused on why I would need to install it on another machine, then clone to my original. Wouldnt my machine be able to install a "Full Retail" snow-leopard DvD? Then I could upgrade to server?
(thank you by the way for your leg work)
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Feb 26, 2013 7:13 PMby A Flinders,By the way......the whole point of this was to have the installer handle the repopulation of my drives from my Time Machine back up....
If I have to install on another machine and then clone to my original machine, I would still have to repopulate from my TM backup manually, which defeats the purpose.
I have already reRAID'd my machine and put a bare bones version of my oringal system via a previously cloned drive (cloned to external usb and then transferred) (see oringal post)
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Feb 26, 2013 7:15 PMby A Flinders,"Yes, you are missing something. You only get the Install Button (as opposed to the Restart button) When 10.6.8 is ALREADY on the Drive you are running from."
It got hung up on install from the DvD BOTH when I had no system installed on the machine and when I had wiped the machine to have no OS on it.....
"If you have the original-issue 10.6.4 that shipped in the Mac Pro box, that could also be used directly. If you bought this Mac as a server, it may have only shipped with a Server disc."
I bought this as a server, could not find the original installer, and Apple sent me a 10.6.3 server installer...
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Feb 26, 2013 7:22 PMby Grant Bennet-Alder,Look at that article. It says if you have a Mac OS X 10.6 running on your Mac's Hard Drive, and double-click on Install Mac OS X Server Icon on the DVD, it will give you a INSTALL button instead of a RESTART button (beacuse you have a LATER version of Mac OS X already Installed on the Hard drive).
Do you have your "bare-bones" Mac OS X fully updated to 10.6.8? If not, I suggest you do that first.
I have pre-installed Mac OS X and then added the ServerEssential.pkg later. They used to have that package sitting out in the open, and it made this much easier.
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Feb 26, 2013 7:24 PMby A Flinders,"Look at that article. It says if you have a Mac OS X 10.6 running on your Mac's Hard Drive, and double-click on Install Mac OS X Server Icon on the DVD, it will give you a INSTALL button instead of a RESTART button (beacues you have a LATER version of Mac OS X already Installed on the Hard drive)."
Yes, that's what I see now, and it hangs as stated.
Even if it says "Install" when you click "Install" it then goes on to inform you, that it will restart to begin the installation (where it hangs)
BUT I also tried WIPING the entire system (no OS whatsoever), reformatting the drives using a bootable usb (so NO OSX running on my Mac's hard drive), and it still hung.
The bottom line is, no matter how you install, it has to restart the machine in order to unmount the startup disk, and boot from the DvD.
Booting from the DvD, makes it hang
"Do you have your "bare-bones" Mac OS X fully updated to 10.6.8? If not, I suggest you do that first."
Yes it is.
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by Grant Bennet-Alder,Feb 26, 2013 7:49 PM
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The current version of CharlesSoft Pacifist seem able to open the DVD, and the ServerEssentials.pkg is found. It appears ready to Install it if asked. I don't have a suitable spare with 10.6 available right now, or I would test it further.
