Makes sense... I had forgotten the i3's were actually newer than the i5's.

So my process should actually be to build the netboot with the latest
version of the hardware you have available.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you are going to have to rebuild
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:59 PM, ckeenan <ckeenan at amherst.edu> wrote:
your NetBoot image on that i3 hardware.

1) Install and configure the OS on the i3.

2) Install the OS onto an external HD from the i3 using the Drop In Box DVD
that came with the i3.

3) Boot the i3 off of the external HD.

4) Use Composer to create an OS image from the external HD of the internal
drive on i3.

5) Run NetImage Creator from the Resource Kit and point at the image you
created in Step 4.

6) Upload that NBI file to your NetBoot server.

All of those steps HAVE to be done on the i3. Once you've created that new
image, it *should* boot all hardware, including the i5 and i7 hardware.

If you are using InstaDMG to build your images, you follow a little
different methodology that I can share if you need me too.

Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integer.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475

I built our netboot using a retail i5 MacBook Pro. I never booted it,
started it in target disk mode and captured a DMG of it. Then I fed that DMG
into the NetInstall creator and dropped the .nbi folder onto our server.
This has been booting all old and all new hardware for us. i5's and i7's
included. I haven't actually tried with an i3, but I imagine it would work.

Bob

Same advice Steve (and some other list members) gave me on my recent trip to the West Coast to resolve a similar issue at a client site. I would imagine an i5 or i7 image should boot an i3 Mac...but you know it's just not worth the time or trouble trying to find a way to get it to work. Steve's advice to redo the NetBoot and/or BaseImage on the newest hardware worked. We just chalked it up to Apple dropping the ball on the backward compatibility side.

Steve...how many beers do I owe you so far? :)

Don

If the MBP was 10.6.4, then that would have worked. Since these i3 devices
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Bob Feldhake <bob.feldhake.pyb3 at statefarm.com> wrote:
came out after 10.6.4, the drivers for them is not in the OS. Hence the
need to rebuild the NBI off of the i3 hardware using the DIB DVD that came
with the i3.

Once 10.6.5 comes out, the drivers for that hardware will be in the updater.

Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integer.com

The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475