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Burn the DMG image file located in the “Resources” folder which is inside the Boot Camp Package. The Boot Camp package is in the utilities folder and is what you click on to run Boot Camp Assistant. Right-click over the Boot Camp Assistant app in the Utilities folder. Select “Show Package Contents” Open the Contents [...]

This tip is really a generic *Nix command so it should not only work in OS X but also in other flavors of UNIX such as Linux. In OS X a lot of the log files are auto-archived into compressed GZIP files in Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) and BZ2 files in Leopard (Mac OS [...]

To set up a MegaRAID with Raid 5 on an Xserve follow these steps: 1. Boot the server from OSX Server CD 2. Open the Terminal application 3. Type in the command megaraid -create auto 4. Close the Terminal application 5. Open the Disk Utility application 6. Create a new partition on the new RAID [...]

If on reboot the server does a consistency check of the RAID, this process can take a very long time. It may take upwards of 8 or more hours. There isn’t really any indication an Xserve is doing a consistency check on reboot. What happens is the Xserve boots to a gray screen or if [...]


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