I know you can install Tiger with a firewire cable from one computer to another if one dosnt have a dvd player, but can you install it with an ethernet cable as well?
You know I was thinking about something similar to this topic just yesterday. I love Firewire, but it isn't as fast as when I use Gigabit ethernet. In addition to Apple using Firewire for the Migration Assistant...they should offer it on Gigabit Ethernet too. Right now it takes 53 minutes to backup my 27GB music library using FireWire Target Disk mode to my PowerBook G4. With Gigabit Ethernet, I can transfer my 27GB music library in 22 minutes, plus I don't have to turn off my PowerBook.
That's funny, since both Firewire and Gigabit Ethernet both exceed the speed of hard disk read/write. Should be the same rate, but apparently FW has some overhead in your system (I get 40-50MB/s transfers using a desktop disk drive over FW, which is the max rate of the disk read/write). And you can enable firewire networking, so you don't have to turn off your computer/go into target disk mode.
Target disk mode is required, and you can't do that with ethernet. But with a netboot server and a properly constructed image you can install over a network. In fact the XServes even come with such a setup just for them. Look into NetRestore.
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