Recently, the computer I was using as my server started having some overheating problems. The good news is that the machine shut down before harming components, but with that machine running my domain controller I needed it running in order to get work done and to waste time surfing the Internet. The server was in a largish closet so I moved it to my office in the hopes that it would limp along. That kept it running, but the noise was atrocious! Its one thing to have a little white noise from a computer but it this was like sitting next to a jet engine with afterburners screaming.
My initial thought was to purchase another generic server box and stuff it into the closet. However, with summer coming up, I wasn’t so sure I could completely eliminate the heat dissipation problems in the closet. Installing a dedicated air conditioner inside my condo was definitely not going to happen. Gazing at my nearly silent main desktop machine, my lovely Mac Pro running Vista x64, I wondered if it would run Server 2003 R2 x64? Andreas Olsson reported in my post about getting Vista x64 running on the Mac Pro that he successfully installed, but without a wired connection, and ran it so I knew it would probably work. Scouring around the net, my wife managed to find a killer deal on an “open box” Mac Pro 2.66 Ghz machine with an NVidia card so I pounced. (She hated the noise even worse than I did!)
It was barely more complicated to install Server 2003 x64 on the Mac Pro than Vista x64. Here are the steps I took and links you’ll need in case you want to live the Server Vida Loca. I should note that I added the following additional hardware to the machine, 5GB RAM, and an additional two 500 MB hard disks.
Now I have a super quiet and cool running server that I can actually use in my office. In fact, my wife thought something was wrong when she first walked by because there was no more noise coming out of my office. That rates very high on the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor)!
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Interesting, but have you tried to install Server 2008 on your mac pro, I was thinking of getting a Mac pro 8core machine, its a good value workstation but wanted to know if there are any pitfalls, ideally Id like to install on a clean drive without bootcamp, maybe you would have some suggestions?
GP,
I don't know of any way to install without having a small OS X drive to handle Boot Camp. Also, I didn't try Server 2008. I have just mastered Server 2003 and didn't want to destabilize my life too much. Sorry.
- John Robbins
You all know my geek love for Apple hardware. Yesterday Apple released the official drivers for Vista
Great!! I really need this information to install an bootcamp based 2003 server. Should I select NTFS format disk since I can not find the option that "format disk to FAT32". Thanks for your reply!!
As I've written in the past , I've been using VMware (both Workstation 6.5 and Server 1.04) for what
If you've been reading my blog for a while, you have already seen my infatuation with using Apple hardware
Great article! I am seriously looking into using Boot Camp 3.0 with Windows Server 2008R2 to utilize Hyper-V. Any suggestions? Do you think the installation would be similar?
Chuck,
I *know* installation would be similar: https://training.atmosera.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2009/04/26/moving-from-vmware-server-to-hyper-v.aspx. :) I've already done it.
Note that if you have an Early 2008 or later Mac Pro you won't have to create the special bootable DVD as I did.
Hope it helps!
John Robbins
Hi,
I would like to install Windows Server 2003 on Macbook Pro (2011) machine. I believe I need to follow very similar steps to install, but could you please guide me how to install 2003 on mac please??
Reg,
SR.