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    installing Fedora on a G5 Xserve without an optical drive?

    The Xserves came in two flavors, a "Queen Bee" type with video, optical drive, and two hard drives, and a "worker bee" flavor that had only one hard drive, no video, and no optical drive. The theory was that you installed the OS onto the second drive of the Queen, and then swapped it with the...
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    installing Fedora on a G5 Xserve without an optical drive?

    Unfortunately, I'm stuck with Fedora Cora 7, because that's the OS we're doing some PPC testing on. I've tried an Ubuntu live CD, and it fails the same way, it displays the CD as a viable boot option, but then drops me back into the "select boot device" menu with screwed up colors. I get...
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    installing Fedora on a G5 Xserve without an optical drive?

    Hi, I'm trying to install Fedora Core 7 on a bunch of dual G5 Xserves that don't have optical drives. I've tried installing over the net (a technique that works on the Mac-minis) and tried pulling the drives and installing them from the Mac-minis using a USB enclosure (which works when...
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