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NetRestore, Leopard10.5.6 and PPC
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saz
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May 13, 2009, 07:27 AM
 
Hello
Im' sure that I'm not the only one felling like hitting my head to a wall when it comes to getting PPC mac net installing from leopard server, Intel Mac have no problem, so it must be PPC archtict and Leo, Dose any body have a clue to what must be done?
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May 17, 2009, 01:36 PM
 
It's been a few years since I've done any work with netinstall, but I remember back in the Tiger days, it was necessary to have two separate netinstall images to boot the new Intel machines and the older PPC machines. (Tiger wasn't universal; it was one or the other.) Leopard is supposedly universal, but if you're having trouble, it might be worthwhile to keep two separate images, one built from an Intel machine and one built from a PPC machine.

More specifically, what goes wrong when you try to boot from PPC? Do the machines not find the image? Do they TFTP the kernel and crash when they try to start booting? Or are you having problems with the netinstall/netrestore procedure itself once the machines are booted?
     
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May 18, 2009, 10:39 AM
 
I'm having the exact same problem. They simply just don't NeBoot. I can't even get them to NetBoot off of PPC Tiger. Something about Leopard Server.

I actually have a OS X Client Management training course on Thursday, I plan on solving my NetBoot problems. I'll post here if I find out anything new.
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