Can’t create NetInstall image (maybe 10.6.6 is the problem?)

[Demani]

I haven’t done this in a long time, so maybe I’m missing something blatantly obvious. I just got a handful of laptops and a bunch of iMacs in that all need to get a standard install (will actually create two installer images), but as the latest models they won’t work with the last images I had made (usually I just get one or two machines at a time, but we haven’t gotten any in quite a while. so now there are a bunch) now is the time to revamp.
I figured setting up a NetInstall image would make the most sense, giving me more flexibility later. I have a 10.6.6 Mini Server dedicated to this, so the only thing I needed to do was create the image using System Image Utility. Connected a baseline install on a MBP in target mode to the Mini Server. Open SIU, but the only options are NetBoot and NetRestore- is it possible the SIU tool can’t yet recognize the 10.6.6 as a valid source image for NetInstall? Or am I missing something altogether different?

[dariusjs]

What are you using as the base? Is it an image of another system? As far as I can tell with Snow Leopard Server Image Install thingy, you can only do a Net Restore using an image of another system. We recently had a banch of recent model mac’s and the retail snow leopard DVD did not work.

Netinstall seems to only work if you have an original Retail DVD or Original disc that the mac came with, I also followed some instructions on the below KB page, but as of now I am still in the middle of it and don’t know if its fully working yet. I am trying to create a netinstall, add our custom packages and then make images for dekstops and one for laptops. I don’t really look forward to having seperate images for every seperate model of mac. The image on Macbook Air’s seems to be different than what is on other systems.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3496?viewlocale=en_US

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