Important: It was noted by a reader last week that in El Capitan you need to bless a NetBoot server in order to use it. If you cannot start your Mac from your server perform the following task: Over ...

In our last episode we created two images: A NetBoot image to start an entire operating system over a network and a NetRestore image to restore a block-for-block image of an existing Mac. You should ...

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how Mac OS X Server’s NetBoot process allows Macintosh machines to boot by using a server-based disk image instead of booting via a local disk. Part 1 also ...

One of the most interesting technologies in Mac OS X Server is NetBoot and its close cousin, NetInstall. NetBoot allows you to start up a Macintosh computer from a network disk image rather than using ...

I'd been aware that it was _possible_ to do this for a while, but hadn't actually tried until this afternoon. It turns out, it's rather easy to do, although I cheated and borrowed an already made .nbi ...

The title explains most of it, but here goes the rest:<BR><BR>Server:<BR>Mac Mini G4, OSX Server 10.4.9. Netboot is enabled.<BR><BR>When powering on the G3, I hold the N key and I see a blinking ...