Apple Mac OS X Server - Manual (Page 10)

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The following table suggests some of the partitioning options.
Partitioning a Hard Disk for Mac OS X Server
If the disk on which you’re going to install Mac OS X Server will also have at least one Mac OS
Extended partition, you first create all the partitions in Mac OS Extended format. When you
install Mac OS X Server, you select one of the partitions to be reformatted in Mac OS Server
format.
If you are going to install Mac OS X Server on an unpartitioned disk formatted in Mac OS
Standard or Mac OS Extended, and you want the disk to be entirely in Mac OS Server format
without a Mac OS Extended partition, then skip to Chapter 3 and install Mac OS X Server. If
you are going to install Mac OS X Server on a disk with Mac OS Extended partitions, and you
want the disk entirely formatted in Mac OS Server format, then follow the steps below to
format the disk.
Use a Mac OS utility such as Drive Setup (provided on the Mac OS X Server CD, in the
Utilities folder) to initialize your hard disk and create partitions. You can create up to eight
Mac OS Extended partitions on a single disk. You can have only one Mac OS Server partition
per disk.
To partition a disk, follow these steps:
1 Insert the Mac OS X Server CD.
2 Restart your computer while holding down the C key.
To set up one of these services... ...format the hard disk with these partitions:
Mac OS Server
partition Mac OS Extended
partition
A high-performance Apache Web server Entire disk
A high-performance QuickTime
Streaming server Entire disk
An Apache Web server or QuickTime
Streaming server that will share files with
Mac OS clients 1 GB minimum Remaining disk space
An Apple file services server 1 GB minimum Remaining disk space
A NetBoot server 1 GB minimum Remaining disk space
(must be at least 4 GB)
Warning Partitioning a disk erases all the information on that disk. Before you partition a
hard disk, back up any files you want to keep .