Make Your Regular Mac a NetBoot Server!

Step 5 Create NetBoot Share Folders...

In order to supply the images to boot from, we first need to define the folders to get them from. We'll worry about filling the folders later...

If you have plenty of room on your Mac's boot drive, setup the directories in the /Library folder (That's the folder called Library that you see when you open the drive itself, not the Library folder in your Home folder! If you use another drive, substitute "/Volumes/<drive name>" everywhere I use "/Library" in throughout this Instructable.

Open the /Library folder (or other drive) create a new folder (Command-Shift-N) and name it NetBoot. Open it, and create two more folders named NetBootSP0 and NetBootClient0 respectively. We're only going to be using the NetBootSP0 folder in this Instructable. The other is created for completeness.

Now we need to create Sharepoint links so that the Netboot server can find these folder. Open Terminal and type the following:

cd /Library/NetBoot
ln -s NetBootSP0 .sharepoint
ln -s NetBootClients0 .clients

Note the period prior to the sharepoint and clients. This make them invisible links.

Before continuing, drag the NetBootSP0 to your Dock, next to the Trash can. This will make it readily accessible to access later when you need it.

Comments

[emihackr97]

it says: -bash: -s: command not found what can i do?

[LasVegas]

That's because '-s' is not a command. You didn't issue the 'ln' prior to the -s?