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

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 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