• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Installing and Managing NetBoot Services in OS X Mountain Lion Server

    The NetBoot service has allowed administrators of Mac OS X computers to leverage images hosted on a server to boot computers to a central location since OS X was first introduced by Apple. Since the very first versions of OS X, the service has been called NetBoot. In the Server app, Apple has added a number of options surrounding the NetBoot service. It is now called NetInstall. The first step to configuring the NetBoot service is to decide what you want the NetBoot service to do. There are three options: Create a NetBoot Image: Allows Macs to boot over the network to a disk image hosted on a server. Create…