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Specifying the default netboot disk image, Setting up multiple disk images – Apple Mac OS X Server (Administrator’s Guide) User Manual

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Clicking Discard removes the changes you’ve made to the disk image.

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Start the NetBoot client computer again, and log back in to all the server volumes.

12

Open NetBoot Desktop Admin.

If you want to keep a backup copy of the old disk image, leave the “Keep previous disks as
backup” option selected. Backup copies are stored in the Backup Images folder in the Shared
Images folder on the NetBoot server.

Note: Because there is only one Backup folder, the backup image saved at this time will
overwrite any backup image in the folder from a previous session.

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If you clicked Save in Step 10, click Restart. Otherwise, click OK.

If you click Restart, NetBoot Desktop Admin saves your changes, deletes the old disk image,
and then restarts the computer. Changes are available the next time a NetBoot client
computer restarts. If you click OK, NetBoot Desktop Admin deletes the old disk image.

Specifying the Default NetBoot Disk Image

The default disk image is the NetBoot disk image used when a user starts a client computer
using the N key. See “Starting Up Using the N Key” on page 507. If you’ve created more than
one startup disk image, use the Configure DHCP/NetBoot pane to select the default startup
image.

Note: If you have more than one NetBoot server on the network, there is no way to control
which disk image is used by client computers looking for the default disk image. The default
image of the first server to respond to the client’s NetBoot request is the one that will be used.

To specify the default NetBoot disk image:

1

In Server Settings, click the Network tab.

2

Click DHCP/NetBoot and choose Configure DHCP/NetBoot.

3

Click the Image tab.

4

Select the image you want to be the default.

Setting Up Multiple Disk Images

You can create as many Mac OS X disk images as you want using the Network Image Utility.
To create more than one Mac OS 9 disk image, make copies of the preconfigured disk image
you installed from the NetBoot, Mac OS 9 CD into the /Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP0
directory. Then use NetBoot Desktop Admin to modify the Mac OS 9 disk images as desired.

Use Server Settings to enable disk images and select the default disk image. See “Enabling
NetBoot Disk Images” on page 502 and “Specif
ying the Default NetBoot Disk Image” on
page 500.

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