UndeadMeat
Registered
Hello everyone,
I am the new technology support person for a small school district running quite a few Macs. I have some general knowledge of the OS X environment, but I don't know the server side of the Mac world much. I am getting pretty frustrated trying to setup net installing on our 10.3.9 Server. Up until now the person who was in my position before me re-imaged every Mac using Carbon Copy Cloner and a firewire cable. One at a time... It took forever to do a single lab. I started looking around and discovered that OS X Server has the ability to serve out images over the network and it is possible to install a standard image on a bunch of computers at once. I tried to follow the directions from Apple and Mike Bombich as best I could but I must have missed something. Here's what I've done and what happens to me:
I have started AFS, NFS, and NetBoot services on the server (I have another server that will be handling DHCP). I used Disk Utility to create an image of a Mac that is properly configured. I moved that image to the Server, mounted it, and used Network Image Utility to create a NetInstall set. I see that it put it into /Library/Netboot/NetbootSPO and that it made that directory a share. I went into the Netboot service and set the new image as default. Now, when I boot an iMac I hold down the Option key and then select the network image that shows up on the screen. I get the grey screen with the spinning globe, then the spinning circle, then I get the blue screen like OS X is about to start but nothing else happens. It just stays as a blue screen with a spinning circle for ever. I am totally stumped.
I really appreciate any help you can give me, or places you can point me that might help.
Thanks a lot,
Nathan
I am the new technology support person for a small school district running quite a few Macs. I have some general knowledge of the OS X environment, but I don't know the server side of the Mac world much. I am getting pretty frustrated trying to setup net installing on our 10.3.9 Server. Up until now the person who was in my position before me re-imaged every Mac using Carbon Copy Cloner and a firewire cable. One at a time... It took forever to do a single lab. I started looking around and discovered that OS X Server has the ability to serve out images over the network and it is possible to install a standard image on a bunch of computers at once. I tried to follow the directions from Apple and Mike Bombich as best I could but I must have missed something. Here's what I've done and what happens to me:
I have started AFS, NFS, and NetBoot services on the server (I have another server that will be handling DHCP). I used Disk Utility to create an image of a Mac that is properly configured. I moved that image to the Server, mounted it, and used Network Image Utility to create a NetInstall set. I see that it put it into /Library/Netboot/NetbootSPO and that it made that directory a share. I went into the Netboot service and set the new image as default. Now, when I boot an iMac I hold down the Option key and then select the network image that shows up on the screen. I get the grey screen with the spinning globe, then the spinning circle, then I get the blue screen like OS X is about to start but nothing else happens. It just stays as a blue screen with a spinning circle for ever. I am totally stumped.
I really appreciate any help you can give me, or places you can point me that might help.
Thanks a lot,
Nathan