Important: Read Before Installing
- An administrator account password that does not contain spaces or Option-keyed characters is required to install. The password may not be blank. If your password must be changed, then follow these steps: Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu. Choose Accounts from the View menu. Select an Admin account and click Edit User. Type your current password, and press Return. Change the password, and click OK.
- You may experience unexpected results if you have installed third-party system software modifications, or if you have modified the operating system through other means. This precautionary statement does not apply to the normal installation of application software.
- The installation process should not be interrupted. Monitor progress by clicking the Detailed Progress disclosure triangle. If a power outage or other interruption occurs during installation, use the standalone installer (see below) from Apple Software Downloads to install.
- This update can be installed on non-startup volumes, but that should be done only when the current startup volume has already been updated to Mac OS X Server 10.3.4. The simplest way to avoid issues from an improper installation is to start up from the volume that you wish to update.
- If you are updating from 10.3.2 or earlier and use a MySQL database, you must back it up prior to upgrade. See the Additional Information for MySQL section, below.
- If you are updating from 10.3.2 or earlier and have set up a loginhook, a custom serial port configuration, or have edited the "/etc/ttys" file for other reasons, you will need to back it up prior to installation of this update.This is because a 10.3.3 or later update overwrites the file with a new copy when updating from 10.3.2 or earlier. The new file will set the Xserve's serial port to communicate at 56Kbps. If your serial device cannot communicate at this speed, you must edit this file to reduce the speed.
Installation
There are two ways to update to Mac OS X Server 10.3.4: Software Update and Standalone Installer.
Software Update Installation
You may have been referred to this document by Software Update. For more information on this feature, see
How to Update Your Software.
Because some updates are prerequisites for others, you may need to use Software Update more than once to get all available updates.
Standalone Installer
An installer is also available from
Apple Featured Software.
Mac OS X Server 10.3.4 Update (Combo) updates Mac OS X Server 10.3, 10.3.1, 10.3.2, or 10.3.3 to the later version.
Remote Installation
If you need to install the update on a remotely located computer, you can do so using either the
Server Admin application or the "
softwareupdate" command-line tool. Choose the method that works best for you.
Enhancements Delivered with this update
Many enhancements are delivered with this update. Because this is a combo update, it includes those delivered with Mac OS X Server versions
10.3.1,
10.3.2,
10.3.3, and
10.3.4.
Additional Information for MySQL
Data stored in MySQL databases with the version of MySQL that is pre-installed Mac OS X Server 10.3.2 or earlier must be exported and re-imported in order to be compatible with version of MySQL that is pre-installed on Mac OS X Server 10.3.3 or later, in which a byte-ordering issue is fixed.
As with any upgrade install, you should back up your old data. In this particular upgrade, the following process is recommended to convert the data to the correct byte ordering:
Before the upgrade, use the terminal to export the data from your pre-10.3.3 database:
# mysqldump -p table > backup-file.sql
or
# mysqldump --opt database > backup-file.sql
After the upgrade, and after initializing the MySQL database, import the data:
# mysql -p table < backup-file.sql
or
# mysql database < backup-file.sql