ripoflive Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 I just wanted to know if its possible to boot a mac partition over a network???? I know it sounds impossible but Im sure there has to be a way....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianoman Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 OSX Server supports this using the NetBoot and NFS protocols. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazymonkeypants Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 It's supported by all modern Macintosh systems; see the Mac OS X Server documentation for instructions on setting it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripoflive Posted January 31, 2006 Author Share Posted January 31, 2006 Dude, Mac OS X server isnt x86 so id be wasting my time. What I meant is getting 10.4.3 tiger to boot over a network (sorry should have been more specific)..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gdfath3r Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 Dude, Mac OS X server isnt x86 so id be wasting my time. What I meant is getting 10.4.3 tiger to boot over a network (sorry should have been more specific)..... Btw can be installed over X86...so is possible..if you go on one of major BT site you gonna find a file which is in size about 35 megs, which is converting your OSX install into a Mac Server.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripoflive Posted January 31, 2006 Author Share Posted January 31, 2006 Yes but that is ppc dude....I dont think its that easy.........I dunno im gonna try it anyway .............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddicus Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Dude, Mac OS X server isnt x86 so id be wasting my time. What I meant is getting 10.4.3 tiger to boot over a network (sorry should have been more specific)..... I read up on this a bit the other day on apple.com and it essentially said that you can create Multiple NetBoot images on your OS X server, for different configurations, even different builds, say for PPC or OS X for Intel. You should be able to create a server NetBoot image that will boot on x86 machines (provided your motherboard will play along). I'm not guessing that different images could be created for different platforms, it specifically mentioned Intel Based Macs. The one catch as I can tell so far is that while the server packages will install over your existing 10.4 install (be it PPC or Intel-check forum people have done it) the server apps will be PPC code, so it wouldn't be the fastest thing around, and every service might not start up correctly. I'm waiting on parts for my new Intel machine, when I have everything in I intend on giving it a go, both netboot from a PPC server and netboot from an Intel server. It'll be at least a week though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripoflive Posted February 10, 2006 Author Share Posted February 10, 2006 Thanx dude! Thats exactly wat I wanted to know....Some it can be done! Im gonna try it on my network and c if it works!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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