Holding down the Option key reveals all the drives, including NetInstall images, available for your Mac to startup from. Restart your Mac while holding down the Option key.To start your Mac using your NetBoot image: A selection mistake will result in a compete loss of data. If your client Mac is not a Mac that you have a backup of or which you can’t afford to lose the contents of, be very careful which image you select in the next exercise. Your operating system will be delivered to your Mac from your server and will be run over your network.Ī NetRestore Image will wipe the contents of your hard drive and replace it with the contents of the NetRestore Image. Note: Before we begin this section, it’s very important to understand the difference between a NetBoot and a NetRestore image.Ī NetBoot Image will make no changes to your local hard drive. Start your client Mac from the NetBoot image
If you don’t see your images, open the Server app and make sure the NetInstall Service is turned on.
To verify that these files are here, from the Finder on your server: You should also have added these two images to your server’s NetBootSP0 folder. 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.