Netboot Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Roll your own Netboot server on Linux

by Michael Rose (Dec 8th, 2006)

It can't be denied; NetBoot is cool. Even though Apple's network startup technology is mostly aimed at big educational and corporate deployments, it can be helpful in a small gaggle of Macs as a tool for diagnostic boot or machine imaging. There's a price to be paid, though: by default, you need Mac ...

Universal OS X, NetBoot OS X, courtesy of MacOSXHints

by David Chartier (Mar 31st, 2006)

Of all the people who could create a Universal OS X boot disk (*cough* Apple *cough*), is anyone surprised that MacOSXHints (as far as I know) got there first? Top it off with the fact that they also created a NetBoot image and, well... now they're just making everyone else look bad (*cough!*). This ...

TUAW Tip: keyboard shortcuts during Mac OS X startup

by David Chartier (Mar 27th, 2006)

For today's TUAW Tip, I thought I'd cover some of the basic essentials for starting up your Mac, especially for recent switchers who feel naked and lost without their BIOS. I compiled the list I have here from Magical Macintosh Key Sequences (which Dave mentioned last September), Apple's ...

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