#Apple netboot server install
Before setting it up, download the Install OS X El Capitan installer app into the /Applications directory from the App Store. The first step in doing so is to create a Network Disk Image of 10.9, or the 10.9 installation media (which is the Install OS X Mavericks bundle for this example). Use this option to restore an image that has been prepared.įor the purposes of this example, we’re going to use an OS X El Capitan (10.11) installer running Server 5 to boot an OS X computer over the network. Create a NetRestore Image: Leverage NetBoot as a boot disk so that you can restore a computer that has been configured over a network.Create a NetInstall Image: Leverage NetBoot as a boot disk so that an image hosted on a server can be used to run an OS X installer.Create a NetBoot Image: Allows Macs to boot over the network to a disk image hosted on a server.There are three options available in System Image Utility (available under the Tools menu of the Server app in OS X Server): The first step to configuring the NetInstall service is to decide what you want the service to do. In the Server app, Apple provides a number of options surrounding the NetInstall service, based on Automator-style actions, now calling the service NetInstall. Since the very first versions of OS X, the service has been called NetBoot.
The NetBoot service allows administrators of OS X computers to leverage images hosted on a server to boot computers to a central location and put a new image on them, upgrade them and perform automations based on upgrades and images.