#How to netboot a mac install
#How to netboot a mac software

Installed, but when I try to install Internet Explorer (IE) 5.1, itĬrashed again. Programs onto the image - at least I thought I was going to installĪs I was installing AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), the iMacĬrashed. Installing SoftwareĪs soon as the iMac finished restarting, I started to install So I clicked 'copy', and it started copying the NetBoot HDĪs soon as it finished copying the image, the iMac restarted andīooted from the copied disk image on the server. All models that support NetBoot can run from Running an iMac G3/233, blue & white Power Mac G3, G4 iMac, eMac, Macs share the same disk image, so it doesn't matter whether you're 'NetBoot HD', and I decided to expand it by 200 MB. I had to decide how much I wanted to expand the The NetBoot CD in the server and run the NetBoot Desktop AdminĪpplication. I restarted it again, and it finally booted! Little bit upset, so I told myself this would be the last time System extensions - and then it crashed again. This time it got halfway through loading the Mac icon, but that was as far as I got before the iMac crashed. The iMac, and this time it found the network disk. Maybe the iMac would boot off of the network now. Warn me about that when I set it up, but I fixed it. There was the problem - the IP range I gave for net booting I went into Server Admin and looked at the DHCP/NetBoot Panel. Both were connected, so it must have been a I checked the ethernet connection on both the Of my iMacs to my ethernet network, restart it, and hold down the To know is what Dynamic IP range you want for the client machines.Īfter I set up the NetBoot system, all I had to do was connect one Setting up a NetBoot server is really easy: All it really wants Minutes, and then I had to run the Setup Assistant. I haven't had a monitor hooked up to it since September, rightīefore I started my 30 Days of Old SchoolĬomputing series), and I installed the NetBoot software, whichĬreates a bootable disk image for remote Macs. So I hooked up a monitor to my 9600 (it's a headless server, and (You can install OS X on a PCI Power Mac upgraded When I thought about it, theĩ600 I have that's running Mac OS X Server as a NetBoot Most of the machines I've received over the last few months haveīeen iMacs and B&W G3s.

#How to netboot a mac software

I used and burned a few CDs with several software packages on them Software onto a number of machines at once.Ī few years ago - when I got a dozen or so 5200s - I made a list of all of the programs I decided to find a better, faster way of installing all of my Of machines at once, it can become tiresome. Sure, it's fun to spend time setting up an OS and all of yourĪpplications some of the time, but when you're doing it on a number OS 9, and I've been spending a lot of time setting them up. I recently acquired quite a few Macs that run best in Mac