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Step 3: Image the Source Computer
Configuring the NetBoot Service
Step 1: Configure the NetBoot Image
Deployment Solution
This computer is ready to be imaged. In
(page 223), we use the imaging utility, hdiutil, to capture and store an image of this
computer.
1.
Connect to your NetBoot Server and mount a NetBoot share. Typically, this share
would be NetBootSP0. Connect (command + K) using a command similar to the
following:
afp://server_ip/NetBootSP0
Replace server_ip with the IP address of your server.
2.
From the terminal on the source computer, run the following command to capture
and store the disk image:
hdiutil create -srcfolder / /Volumes/NetBootSP0/SystemRO.dmg
3.
Convert the existing read-only image to read-write using the following command:
hdiutil convert /Volumes/NetBootSP0/SystemRO.dmg -format UDRW -
o /Volumes/NetBootSP0/System.dmg
When this operation completes, you can delete SystemRO.dmg.
4.
Add an additional 1 GB padding to the image using the following command:
hdiutil resize -size newsize /Volumes/NetBootSP0/System.dmg
Replace newsize with the current size of your image plus 1 GB.
If necessary, you can determine the current image size using a command similar to:
ls -alh /Volumes/NetBootSP0/System.dmg
You are now ready to configure the NetBoot Service.
NetBoot is a service which runs on OS X Server to provide Mac computers with an
automation operating system. To configure the NetBoot service complete the following
procedures:
Step 1: Configure the NetBoot Image
Step 2: Start the NetBoot Service
Complete the procedure for the version of OS X Server you are using to host the
NetBoot service:
10.5
(page 223)
10.4 or Previous
(page 224)
10.5
1.
On the OS X Server hosting the NetBoot service, double-click
NetBootSP0/System.dmg
Step 3: Image the Source Computer
(page 223)
(page 225)
to mount the image you captured in the previous step.
Mac Imaging
/Library/NetBoot/
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