2/19/09 Mac Admin Meeting You just want to get your files! - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

2/19/09 – Mac Admin Meeting

 You just want to get your files!  Firewire target booting deprecated  Mac OS X Server expensive/overkill  Features are built in to OS X Client

 http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Your- Regular-Mac-a-NetBoot-Server!/  http://www.macgeekery.com/hacks/hardwar e/make_any_mac_a_netboot_server  http://www.bombich.com/mactips/bootpd.ht ml  Some steps differ for OS X 10.5

 Install Mac OS X 10.5  Apply all updates  Install Server Admin Tools 10.5.6  www.apple.com/downloads  Install Property List Editor  Part of free Xcode download

 Use a non-networked test system  Moved to Directory Utility in 10.5  Reboot & login as root

 /Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP0  /Library/NetBoot/NetBootClients0  Sharepoint links using the ‘ ln ’  /private/tftpboot  Another symlink to NetBootSP0 directory

 Different in 10.5 (but easier)  Create text file /etc/exports  Add “/Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP0 – ro ”  Read only share  NFS autostarts

 Easier in 10.5  In System Preferences  Start File Sharing service  Share NetBootSP0 and NetBootClients0 ▪ Read only for “Everyone”

 Allows to show as a Network Startup Disk  Starts BSDP and DHCP services  Create /etc/bootpd.plist  I cheated with an internet script  Also need to set IP to static address  Start the bootps and tftp services

 Good info:  Need a clean, bootable volume  Outputs an .nbi directory which contains everything  Using Apple’s System Image Utility  Create NetBoot image  Save to /Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP0

 Open NBImageInfo.plist from .nbi directory  Use Property List Editor  Delete EnabledSystemIdentifers  Delete DisabledSystemIdentifiers  Set isEnabled to “true”

 Reboot the server  Connect server & client via Ethernet  On client  Open System Preferences  Select Startup Disk  Select the NetBoot volume and reboot