Chapter 5. Using NetBoot for Deployment

Chapter Files

Deployment Planning Template.pdf, available at http://www.peachpit.com/acsa.deployment

 

Mac OS X v10.5 installation media

Time

This chapter takes approximately 4 hours to complete, but it could take much longer, depending on the complexity of your deployment.

Goals

Learn how the NetBoot service can provide a network-based operating system that can be used as part of your deployment solution

 

Create simple NetBoot and NetInstall images

 

Configure Mac OS X Server to provide the NetBoot service

 

Configure Mac clients to start from the NetBoot service

 

Create custom workflow-generated NetBoot and NetInstall images

In this chapter you will learn how to further accelerate the system deployment process by providing ...

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