Confused with NetBoot

[Anonymous]

So I am currently planning an integration of macs into our current PC infrastructure. We will be doing a mixed server enviroment, with user authentication done in active directory, and desktop restriction through workgroup manager and open directory. I am currently looking at ways to handle imaging (installing OS and apps) our new macs. When I originally read about NetBoot, I understood it as basically a clone of Remote Installation Services (what we use to image our PCs), but now that I have come back to it I understand it as all machines boot off of a network image. This will NOT work for us, as 95% of the mac clients are ibooks connecting wirelessly, and running a network os to them would bog down our network. What solutions are there to install a preconfigured OS and software package to mac clients over a network?

[Mac_Tech]

Your best bet is to look into the bombich site and use the mix of ASR to create image(s), and then netboot and netrestore to deliver them.

As for the ibooks, we set-up a room with tables and, via a segmented network, push the images en masse. Wired, of course. We succumb to the deed every year.. just before the students return.

Good luck

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