Nicholas, how do we lay our hands on Kid’s Games: May 2010 Disc of the
Month and Ultimate iLife & iWork Companion?
Stuart Breden
PO Box 132
Kalamunda WA 6926
Ph: (08) 9257 1577
Mbl: 0417 053 266
On 25/06/2010, at 10:56 PM, Nicholas Pyers wrote:
On 24/06/2010, at 11:00 PM, Stuart Breden wrote:
Currently I have a Windows server and a small Apple network.
At least the hard drive on the Windows server needs replacing.
I'm looking at a Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server but can't
understand why this Mac mini does not have a CD/DVD drive. Has the
necessary install DVD"s but no where to use them.
Why does this Mac mini not have a CD/DVD drive? How can you
upgrade the server software?
Apart from a very rare need to do a complete re-install, there isn't
much need for an in-build optical drive on a server machine.
Apple used the space it would use up in the case for a second hard
drive... which is much more useful on a server :)
Since the MacBook Air shipped a few years ago, Apple have supplied a
special application that allows machines without optical drives to
share on across a network - even allowing booting off the remote
optical drive.
Most updates now now via Software Update anyway... but when they
release a major release ie 10.8 then you just use the remote optical
drive option to do the install
Other alternatives include an external Firewire or USB DVD drive
(can be picked up for under $200 these days); Set another machine
into Target Disc mode and mount the DVD that way.
Don't fret that there is no optical drive... in fact I think we
might have to start getting used to it... I suspect Apple will do to
the optical drive exactly the same as what they did to the floppy a
few years ago! and sooner rather than later!
--
Nicholas Pyers (nicho...@appleusers.org)
Founder & Publisher, AppleUsers.org
http://www.appleusers.org/
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