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  • January 25, 2007 at 1:35 pm #368098
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    I’m trying to use Netbooting for occasional client maintenance, maybe imaging. My netboot image has lots of tools like Disk Warrior and Symantec. Problem is, when netbooted, clients are still using the local volume for something and it can’t be unmounted. I thought this was the point of “diskless” mode. Clients are creating shadow files on the server, so what’s the local disk being used for?

    Server/Library/Netboot/NetBootClient0 & Server/Library/Netboot/NetBootSP0 are being shared out via NFS and AFP per the defaults.

    I have two netboot images (Intel & PPC), so I’ve not defined either as a default, the client just picks the right one. Do one or both need to be defined as the default?

    Interesting, Disk Warrior won’t touch the local volume, says “Directory cannot be rebuilt, this disk contains virtual memory”.

    Can’t seem to find a Netboot manual, besides the fell-good “Tech Brief” pdf.

    Any ideas?

    January 26, 2007 at 4:06 pm #368106
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    [QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u][p]What makes you think you’re actually doing a diskless netboot beyond the fact that it’s checked in the interface? 😀 [/p][/QUOTE]

    I used the following command to retrieve netboot settings; both the images appear to be in diskless mode. Shall I look somewhere else?

    $ sudo serveradmin settings netboot

    netboot:netBootImagesRecordsArray:_array_index:0:SupportsDiskless = yes
    netboot:netBootImagesRecordsArray:_array_index:1:SupportsDiskless = yes

    Interesting however that the gui refers to the images as index 2 & 1, but appear above as 0 &1.

    February 1, 2007 at 1:36 pm #368172
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    [QUOTE]
    Are there AFP sessions for NB users when you boot the clients?[/QUOTE]

    No, and I was curious as to why not. Nonetheless, clients do create the shadow files on the server. So, perhaps my problem is related to AFP sharepoint, not diskless netbooting. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

    February 1, 2007 at 10:31 pm #368188
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    Figured it out. I switched the AFP authentcation method from Kerberos to Standard. Now netboot clients are mounting the afp volume, saving shadow files to it, and the local volume can be unmounted as expected in diskless mode. Now to figure out why Kerberos is broken…

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