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3 Setting Up NetBoot Service

This chapter describes how to set up NetBoot service to make

boot and installation images available to clients.

Use Server Admin to configure the NetBoot service in conjunction with System Image

Utility to create and edit images.

Setup Overview

Here is an overview of the basic steps for setting up NetBoot service.

Step 1: Evaluate and update your network, servers, and client computers as

necessary

The number of client computers you can support using NetBoot is determined by the

number of servers you have, how they’re configured, hard disk storage capacity, and

other factors. See “Capacity Planning” on page 46.

Depending on the results of this evaluation, you might want to add servers or hard

disks, add Ethernet ports to your server, or make other changes to your servers. You

might also want to set up more subnets for BootP clients, depending on the number of

clients you support.

You might also want to implement subnets on this server (or other servers) to take

advantage of NetBoot filtering.

To provide authentication and personalized work environments for NetBoot client users

by using Workgroup Manager, set up workgroups and import users from the Mac OS X

Server Users & Groups database before you create disk images. Make sure you have at

least one administrator user assigned to the Workgroup Manager for Mac OS X client.

Step 2: Create disk images for client computers

You can set up Mac OS X disk images for client computers to start from. To create

Mac OS X disk images, you use System Image Utility. See “Creating Images” on page 27.

You might also want to restrict access to NetBoot images by using Model Filtering. See

“Creating NetBoot Images” on page 27.

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Apple 95014-2084 User Manual Page 43