Specifying a Default Image and Protocol

The NetBoot service is configured in Server Admin. Within Server Admin, the Images pane lists the available NetBoot images on the server, which can host up to 25 different disk images. Each image can be enabled, allowing client computers to use the image to boot, or each image can be disabled, preventing client computers from accessing the image. While you can have several images, you must specify one of the NetBoot images as the default image. When you press the N key on a client computer at startup, if the client has never started up from that NetBoot server before, the server will provide the default image to start up the client; hold down Option-N to use the current default.

For each image, you can ...

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