Deploying to Macs over the network

…Now that your server is set up and NetRestore is running, and you've…got an NBI set sitting in the correct place in your NetBootSP0 directory.…On your client system, you're going to want to start it up via that NBI set.…So on our system here, we're already booted, and we're going to go…up to the Apple, and we're going to pull down to System Preferences.…In System Preferences, we're going to go…to the Startup Disk System Preference pane.…Now because we're on the same network as our server, you'll see…right next to where it says Macintosh HD, you've got a different icon.…

It's a globe with an arrow pointing down that…indicates that it has a NetInstall set on it.…Select that and click the Restart button.…Click Restart again, and the system will reboot except rather than booting from the…internal hard drive, the system will boot from the NetBoot image across the network.…Several things are necessary for this to work properly.…You have to have the same ports open between your client…system and the server that you'd normally have open for DHCP.…