[kennedy]

I am looking to convert my network from Server 10.1.5 to Server 10.2 and use either Netboot or Network Install. I was hoping to find some wisdom here on the success of each. My searches seem to indicate that nobody uses them.

Anyone using either Netboot or Network Install?
Work well?
Any difficulties?
Any performance problems?
What size networks?

Anybody tried both and have a preference?

Anyone using these features at all?


Thanks.

[kennedy]

Nobody uses Netboot or Network Install?

And I thought those were the best reason to upgrade from Server 10.1 to 10.2... almost the only thing that made it worth the cost.

[Cipher13]

Well... speed is a major issue for netboot right now. iMacs don't have gigabit ethernet, do they? And realistically, 100base just isn't fast enough.

In my situation (school network), the client machines are iBooks and iMacs. Try netbooting 50 iBooks over AirPort (try netbooting one over AirPort... 1.5MB/sec? No thanks); even try netbooting 200 iMacs over a gigabit line (even though the iMacs only have 100 Mb, that isn't a bottleneck - the Xserve simply doesn't have enough bandwidth to give to all those machines. Ideally, it'd be a multi-Xserve rig, but... $$$).

Connectivity speed is what's holding it back.

Ironically, as I type this on the G4, the iBook on my lap is getting installed with OSX Server 10.2. I'm running it as a testbed.

I'll be testing the tolerability of a majorly stripped netboot system over a 100 Mb line, and the rest of the package in general.

My major aim is to get AUC running, actually. But hey, OSX Server may nullify that need - we'll see. I doubt it.