Make Your Regular Mac a NetBoot Server!

Step 6 Configure NetInfo Manager...

In this step, we are going to setup (but not start) the Network File Server (NFS). This lets the other computers on your network to see and use your NetBoot folders.

Launch NetInfo Manager, click the Lock in the lower-left corner and enter your root password.

Verify that the "/" item in the left-most column is selected and then click the New folder icon above it. In the lower area, change the name of name field's value to "exports".

Select exports in the second colume and click the New folder icon again. This time, set the name to /Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP0 and press the return key. Now click the New icon twice to add two additional property fields to this folder. Double-click the new_property tag and change it to opt then double-click the new_value and change it to ro. Basically, what we've done is to tell the Mac that this folder is Read-Only to network users. Enter Command-S to save these changes.

Don't quit NetInfo Manager yet. We need it for the next step...

Comments

[vajun]

Hi,

I am using Leopard now. And NetInfo Manager is no longer exists.Can i know what is the replacement for this. Especially this part 6 of Make your Regular Mac a NetBoot Server. i was not able to follow the steps for this part. Please share if you have info.

thanks in advance

[mbosch]

Thanks for taking the time to consolidate all this info in one place. However, I'm using Leopard , which no longer has NetInfo Manager. After searching around for a few days, it seems like setting up the NFS in 10.5 is easy ** if ** you know how to use terminal/unix commands. Can anyone help shorten the learning curve?

Thanks!