Upgrading an xserve from Tiger to Leopard

[John Summerfield]

Daniel Hazelbaker wrote:

Thanks Daniel
> Boot off of the Leopard install DVD (on the XServe) and use Disk 
> Utility to clone the drive.  I don't recall exactly what the menu is 
> called, but after you select your language on the install DVD one of 
> the menu bar items (it might be Utilities) has "Disk Utility" in it.  
> Select the current Tiger partition, go to the Restore tab, and 
> "restore" it to your new drive.
>
> If Disk Utility gives you trouble (it occasionally has issues doing 
> this), fire up Terminal on the install DVD and use asr.
>
> asr -source /Volumes/OldTigerVolume -target /Volumes/NewBlankVolume 
> -erase
> *** Triple check what you are typing, this wipes out the old volume (I 
> once did it backwards but caught it before it erased).


I was hoping this would be possible. Is the result of this asr command a 
bootable disk? To clone a disk on Linux, I'd want it unmounted and 
therefore that form would not be possible.

I'm fairly paranoid about copying the wrong way, I've not done it yet.