Lee Watkins schrieb: > Not much traffic here lately, must be meetings and summer doldrums... > > So here's a question to which I can't seem to find an answer: Has > anyone successfully installed any version of Linux on the latest > Intel-based quad-core (2 x dual-core "Woodcrest") Xserve boxes from > Apple? I keep hearing/reading that people (somebody, somewhere) have > done so but can't track down an actual person who has (our Apple > engineer says the same thing - lots of people who know a friend who's > done it or heard of somebody who's done it but nobody who can provide > details). Not a MacBook or a Mac Pro, but an Xserve. We have a stack of > these and the programmers around here would just as soon stick with the > Linux they know and love regardless of how swell OS X is. > > People claim that it should be straightforward using elilo (linux boot > loader) but I have yet to see anyone say "this is exactly how I did it > and it works on Xserve." The good folks at Ubuntu say they'd be happy > to have their engineers help us try make it work - for a price, of > course. These Xserves are pretty nice, compact and fairly inexpensive > servers that could make a decent linux cluster. More people might buy > them if they had the flexibility to run linux in addition to OS X, so it > doesn't seem like Apple's opposed to it, just not doing anything > actively to help (since they want to push OS X Leopard). > Any leads or actual experiences would be much appreciated. In the > meantime we've downloaded the beta version of VMWare Fusion to try it > (since we already use VMWare in various places anyway) and pre-ordered a > couple copies. At $39, what's not to like, esp. since it claims to > support the dual-core architecture. > > Cheers, > Lee > > Lee, sorry - cannot say anything about Xserve. I believe that the Xserve hardware is similar to that of the Mac Pro, but I may be wrong. FWIW, I'm running three Mac Pros (2 2*Dualcore, 1 2*Quadcore) under CentOS-5. Installation is completely straightforward: after unpacking the new box, I always update Mac OSX fully, and install the latest Bootcamp (don't know if this is necessary). After installation, there is only a single problem, namely that one of the USB ports (used for keyboard and/or mouse) interferes with the network card (I believe) - can be solved just by plugging into a different outlet. I don't know about ELILO, but grub works perfectly. HTH, Kay