Re: Linux on Xserve, anyone?

[email protected] Tue, 7 Aug 2007 16:07:00 -0500 (CDT)
Newsgroups gmane.science.biology.informatics.clusters
Message-ID <[email protected]>

will they boot off a usb stick?  you could try putting debian-installer on 
one and give it a go....

--e


> 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.