[X Servers] NetBoot Reimaging

[Chris Long]

We have started to use NetBoot just a bit in one of our labs.  
Hopefully the pending release of Quark 6 will allow us to move closer 
to that.  NetBoot works well for booting directly from a Mac OS X 
Server.  Updating the image seems to be the only step that is a bit 
rough.  However, if you are wanting to copy the data to the drive of a 
different computer, NetInstall or NetRestore would probably be the path 
you would want.  I haven't checked into these much, but I know there is 
an in-depth discussion available via Quicktime at

http://www.macosxlabs.org/webcasts/index.html

Chris


On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 11:28 PM, Thomas Zeilstra wrote:

> I want to create a NetBoot Image that will automatically reimage the 
> computer. Some questions:
>
> 1. Is this something that should be done with NetBoot or is NetInstall 
> a better choice? How about NetRestore?
> 2. Should the image (which is more than 2GB) be stored on the NetBoot 
> image itself or seperately on a server?
> 3. If the image is over 2GB, would breaking it up into 650MB .dmgpart 
> chunks be a workable solution?
>
> Basically, I have this idea of holding down the "N" key at startup and 
> waiting as being the only two steps in reimaging. Am I dreaming too 
> much? Anyone got it down that simple?