Important: It was noted by a reader last week that in El Capitan you need to bless a NetBoot server in order to use it. If you cannot start your Mac from your server perform the following task: Over ...

In a previous article, I introduced DeployStudio, a server application used to facilitate the creation, management, and deployment of images for OS X. It included information to help system admins get ...

This is the last episode on the NetInstall service, which will let us connect to a network home folder that the user can customize to their liking, using a NetBoot image that they can’t change at all.

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how Mac OS X Server’s NetBoot process allows Macintosh machines to boot by using a server-based disk image instead of booting via a local disk. Part 1 also ...

In a previous article, I explained how to create DeployStudio-compatible NetBoot images. You can use these images to cold-boot client computers into a network-based disk image, which in turn connects ...

Apple’s NetBoot technology has been a staple part of Mac OS X Server since the latter’s original release. NetBoot allows Mac clients to start and run applications using a server-hosted disk image ...