If you ask me, it still leaves a lot of questions and potential issues unanswered. The NetBoot section of the OS X Admin Guide consists of 10 pages of vague instructions and unclear installation steps, with almost no actual guide on setting up NetBoot HD images or any of the other functions NetBoot supports.Ī PDF called 'Inside NetBooting', which has much more detailed information than the PDF that comes with the OS X Server, is available below. Note that if you don't have or don't want to buy a Mac OS X Server, a Linux Netboot server could be used to Netboot your Mac clients (assuming you know how to set it up properly). Alternately, you could try using an application like Pseudo that lets you run other applications as Root. Note: It's been reported that this problem can be circumvented by logging in as Root before running the NetBoot installer. I eventually discovered that the only way to get it to install properly was to update OS X to 10.1.1, then run the full installer of NetBoot 2.0.2 (NOT 2.0). So I tried updating the OS X Server to 10.1, and NetBoot 2.0 gave me the same error. For example, I tried to install NetBoot 2.0 on OS X Server 10.0.3, and couldn't (the only explanation I got was 'There were errors during installation, please try again.'). It is very picky about which version of NetBoot you use with which version of Mac OS X Server. I found that it was a huge pain to install NetBoot. If you'd like to install NetBoot on your own OS X Server, you're not quite so lucky. Installation If you bought a Server from Apple, NetBoot is already installed and ready to use.

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