Apple Server Diagnostics - Manual (Page 16)

b On the computer with the optical drive, open System Preferences and click Sharing.
Select “DVD or CD Sharing.”
c On the server, open a Finder window and select Remote Disc (under Devices on
the left). Select the computer with the disc inserted. If the disc isn’t listed, click
“Ask to use.” On the computer with the disc inserted, click Accept when a dialog
appears asking if you want to give permission for your server to use your DVD drive.
After doing this, you can use the disc as if it’s inserted in the server.
2 On the server, open AppleServerDiagnosticsHD.pkg (located in /Diagnostics/
on the disc).
3 Follow the onscreen instructions, and at the Select Destination step, choose a volume
that has at least 30 MB of space available and doesn’t have Mac OS X Server installed.
4 If you’re asked to authenticate, authenticate as a user with administrator privileges.
Installing Server Diagnostics Mac OS X
Before you install Server Diagnostics Mac OS X, make sure that your storage device
uses the GUID Partition Table partition scheme and that it has an empty volume with
10 GB of available space. For more information, see “Setting Up a Storage Device for
Server Diagnostics Installation” on page 12.
If you perform this task to install Server Diagnostics Mac OS X on an internal volume
on the server, you need administrator access to the server. If you perform this task
to install Server Diagnostics Mac OS X on a portable storage device, you can use any
computer that you have administrator access to.
Installing Server Diagnostics Mac OS X involves three steps:
Install Mac OS X Server with minimal options selected Â
Copy Server Diagnostics Mac OS X from the  Admin Tools disc to /Applications/
Configure Mac OS X Server Â
By dedicating a minimal installation of Mac OS X Server for use with Server Diagnostics
Mac OS X, you reduce the risk of server processes interrupting Server Diagnostics
testing.
To install Server Diagnostics Mac OS X:
1 If the server has an optical drive, insert the Mac OS X Server Install DVD, open the Install
Mac OS X Server application, click Restart, and authenticate if necessary. If the server
doesn’t have an optical drive, do the following:
a Insert the Mac OS X Server Install DVD in a computer with an optical drive and has
Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server version 10.5.2 or later installed.
The computer must be on the same subnet as the server.
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