[Casper] Netboot newbie

[Miles Leacy]

Note that you can specify netboot servers, and even specific images through
the JSS.  See Casper Suite documentation, pages 328-331.
You don't need to do anything special with routers if you specify where to
netboot from.  Its only in the default netboot situation where a netbooting
computer broadcasts to the network looking for a netboot server where you
run into routing issues.

You can use the bless command to specify your netboot server and/or image.


2008/11/3 James Partridge <james.partridge at oucs.ox.ac.uk>

> On 3 Nov 2008, at 01:14, Jim Oring, Jr. wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of experimemting with netbooting and am very
> interested in what others are doing to make this a seemless process.
>
>
> One important thing to keep in mind is the steps you need to take if you
> are going to be NetBooting across subnets. Mike Bombich (as usual) has
> written the definitive descriptions of the whole NetBoot process, and things
> to watch out for):
>
> Troubleshooting the NetBoot process: <
> http://www.bombich.com/mactips/netboot.html>
> NetBooting across subnets: <http://www.bombich.com/mactips/nbas.html>
>
> The key step is for whoever administers your network hardware to make sure
> that routers on any subnets that will have machines NetBooting can pass BSDP
> traffic. If this works then everything else follows pretty easily.
>
> I'd also recommend looking into a good administrative method for managing
> which machines are allowed to NetBoot and which aren't. Apple's MAC address
> filtering is the right thing to do (imo) but the interface for managing MAC
> addresses in Server Admin is, well, a bit rubbish really. If you have a
> large number or a high turnover of machines allowed to NetBoot then it's
> really easy to lose control of the MAC address filter.
>
> In general, though, I'd say read those two articles by Mike Bombich. I've
> never seen anything better for understanding the NetBoot process. If you are
> NetBooting both PPC and Intel machines then pay close attention to the
> sections about NetBooting multiple architectures.
>
> Cheers
>
> James
>
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