Peter Clapham wrote: > FWIW, I've had a macbook pro running fine under Ubuntu. > The procedure was pretty straight forward and various useful pointers > may be found here: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=198453 > Using rEFIt avoided elilo problems. > All worked well so I can't see any obvious proble using Ubuntu on an > Intel based Xserve. You'd think, but the final word from people who've tried it again and again is that Ubuntu/Debian/etc. won't install on Xserve no matter what tricks they tried. I think I'm going to take Canonical up on their offer to certify Xserve/Intel for Ubuntu, let them deal with it... either that or wait for OS X 10.5 Server (or try the beta like Chris Dagdigian suggested), maybe that will suffice for us. -- Lee Watkins, Jr. Director of Bioinformatics Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) Institute of Genetic Medicine Johns Hopkins Bayview Research Campus 333 Cassell Drive, Triad Bldg. Suite 2000 Baltimore, MD 21224 lwatkins at jhu.edu | www.cidr.jhmi.edu 410-550-7042 ofc | 410-903-2989 urgent_only