XServe 1,1 2006 Cannot get an OS to Load

[Game64]

Hey All,

I'm kind of at wits end, I've bought a 2006 XServe for a spell. (50$). However it came with no hard drives. I'm trying real hard to load an OS on it however all i get is a blinking folder indicating no volume to load. Any thoughts?

Things i've tried:

Fedora on a USB Drive.
OSX 10.7 Install On a USB Drive.
OSX 10.7 Install flashed to a hard drive.

I mean I hold down alt/option on load and nothing even comes up or happens. Just goes to blinking folder.

 

[StormSamfisher]

What keyboard are you using? Windows Keyboard? or is it the flat Keyboard from apple. At work when I test apple computers the flat keyboard from apple sometimes wont work with ALT/OPTION but then I try an older apple keyboard it will work. Perhaps this helps good luck.

 

[coolspot18]

Hey All,

Fedora on a USB Drive.
OSX 10.7 Install On a USB Drive.
OSX 10.7 Install flashed to a hard drive.

Xserve 1,1 is a PowerPC machine with a 32-bit processor; you'll need to download an older version of Fedora (<17) and OSX 10.7 definitely will not run on it.

In anycase, the machine is so slow and so old, it's not worth the power to run it.

 

[codeus]

XServe1,1 isn't PPC, it's Intel Xeon and fairly decent performance.

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/xserve/specs/xserve-intel-xeon-2.0-quad-specs.html

I would probably use an external USB DVD drive and install from a Mac OS 10.7 or 10.8 image burned to DVD. Another option would be in target mode over Firewire from a laptop / desktop.

It may not be the latest / fastest but would still make a good web / cache / proxy / experimental server. And they look cool