Some NetBoot Servers do not support the NetBoot shadow files, & so a modified rc.netboot is needed.3rd Party Thunderbolt or USB adaptors might not always support NetBooting.
If you have any issues in setting this far, the following (despite it’s age) is still the best resource to help you in “ Troubleshooting the NetBoot process.” Apple also has some documentation available.Įnabling verbose booting on a client can show where in the process things are failing. NOTE: 10.10 is the minimum OS Imagr will run on. 10.10+ NBI’s can be created on 10.9+ Macs running AutoImagrNBI. With AutoImagrNBI the OS versions do not have to match. NBI’s created with AutoImagrNBI really should be created from a clean never booted Operating System disk image (read: OS.dmg). This can be tested by creating a vanilla NetBoot Image via System Image Utility, once created upload it to your NetBoot server of choice. Or via Boot Picker which is accessed by holding the Option key on startup. Your mac clients need to be able to see you NetBoot server & any NBI’s hosted on it. These images can be seen via the Startup Disk pref pane:
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However, instead of performing an install of Mac OS X, it will restore a system image to the local Mac.
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New to Mac OS X v10.6, a NetRestore image starts up to an interface that appears to be identical to the Mac OS X Installer.
The advantage to NetInstall is that you can pick and choose the individual packages that get installed, as opposed to performing a system restore, which always includes the entire contents of the system image. This is an alternative to pure system imaging techniques that restore a premade system image to the local Mac. Thus, NetInstall allows you to perform an installation of the operating system to a local Mac. In essence, you’re simply taking the original Mac OS X installation media and making it available on the network.
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This is because most Mac computers come with ample local hard drive space, and more often than not, are portable computers. Although this is an ideal configuration for systems that will remain running from the NetBoot image, it is not generally used for system deployment purposes. When started from a NetBoot image the Mac operates nearly identically to a locally booted Mac OS X client or server. A standard NetBoot image provides a typical computing experience, albeit one that is hosted from a NetBoot server.System Image Utility creates three types of network disk images: