I updated the JSS today to the latest and for whatever reason my netboots will not show up at all on client machines. I tried making a new AutoCasperNBI, no luck. Image is available over NFS. Here's a netboot log if that helps: netboot:state = "RUNNI... View more
Looking for some BSDPy Docker advice. I used this for a guide: [https://themacwrangler.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/creating-a-netboot-server-with-centos-7-and-bsdpy]. I tested this with my nbi and was able to successfully netboot between 2 VMs on my loc... View more
HELP!! HELP!!! We have recently started experincing some netboot issues. The issue has been discussed but can't seem to find an appropriate solution for this. We can't netboot from any 2015 devices it comes up with circle with diagonal line. 2.Older ... View more
Hey everyone, I know DeployStudio isn't a JAMF product, but I was hoping there was someone on here that may use it, that could help guide me in the right direction. I had a work flow that consists of:Target Select > 7 Scripts > Completed Workflow Now... View more
Hello Guys So, I have one issue here. After imaging a machine using Netboot and then Imaging.. it does its thing and then on reboot i see the apple welcome screen...i should be seeing the adobe temp account...any idea what i may be doing incorrectly ... View more
Ok, so netboot was working perfectly fine on our 10.7.5 server. DeployStudio was on v1.6.x (don't remember which exact build...). Sometime last year we got in some iMac Late 2015s and they would not boot, even after creating a new NBI with it. So we ... View more
Sometimes after the first reboot after using Casper Imaging, the network adapter isn't detected and some scripts and binding that require a working network connection will fail. Our imaging process still relies on Netbooting and using Casper Imaging.... View more
Hi all, What does one do if a package sometimes does not successfully install (or in the case of the below Mathematica.dmg, not copy) but Casper reports that it did? PostInstall 2017-01-16 17:35:52: Installing package LanSchool Student 2016.dmg PostI... View more
Hi everyone, I have just started imaging my school's fleet of 440 MacBook Airs through Netboot imaging and the imaging speed is maxing out at 15MB/s. When I open Activity Monitor I see that the process 'fontd' is writing between 30-40GB of data to th... View more
Happy New Year JN! My environment is experiencing strange NetBoot issue. Before I get to that let me give you the answer to "What has changed?" The University of NM closes completely over the holidays. This is a perfect time to perform upgrades, migr... View more
I'm seeing some strange behavior with the new touch bar MacBook Pro, JSS 9.96 and my just-created 10.12.2 AutoCasperNBI set. My very brief (10-12 packages) image completes, and then: 1/9/17 11:56:59 AM - Contacting the JSS 1/9/17 11:56:59 AM - Connec... View more
So Ive been reworking my netboot image for 10.12.2 and took it straight from the MacBook pro 15" w/touchbar that we just got in, and using a thunderbolt 3-thunderbot2 adapter and then a thunderbolt to ethernet adapter...Ive been able to get the machi... View more
Hi all, We are having issues configuring our netboot setup. We have the helper addresses in place and two subnets are working, but the netboot is not showing up on another range that is very close to the two that are working. We use dhcp options for ... View more
After upgrading to v4.1.0, I can see the nbi after option booting but as soon as I select it, the mac sits in a frozen state for about 20 seconds before it decides to boot to the already installed OS on the internal hard drive. Any clues on what the ... View more
There's been a thread or two discussing this issue, but I wanted a quick reference thread listing USB-C gigabit Ethernet adapters that are confirmed to be able to network boot the late 2016 MBPs with or without the Touch Bar. No assumptions* or guess... View more
Good evening everyone, I have an issue that doesn't seem consistent while we image computers for our laptop carts. We have two configuration profiles, one where we reinstall the OS and one where we just place our software on top of the existing syste... View more
Hello All, Just finished upgrading JSS to 9.96. This means it's time for me to create an updated NBI image with an updated Casper Imaging App. Used AutoCaserperNBI (Thanks to @bentoms for a wonderful piece of engineering) and Auto DMG to go through t... View more
Hi All, I am stuck with NetBoot. I just can't seem to image a computer with Casper Imaging and successful boot. Here is what I got.. I have setup a NetSus server (not the appliance) and create a NetBoot NBI with AutoCasperNBI I also have create a Bas... View more
Hello Everybody! We are looking to disable booting into our Netboot partition. A user managed to find his way to the Netboot partition on his workstation by holding the option key during startup - I think he was trying to throw a PRAM reset? Anyway, ... View more
We have been working through this issue with JAMF support and haven't gotten anywhere yet. We are running Casper 9.96, MySQL 5.6, Netboot server, JSS Server, File Server all 10.11. We've had issues with 5 computers imaging at once, or 15 computers. T... View more
I created an nbi dmg using AutoCasperNBI version 1.3.4, OS X Sierra and Casper 9.96, with the same settings that I have done with previous OS. What is happening, is that when at boot using a USB drive, it just never loads to the Desktop. But the actu... View more
Hey all we were chomping at the bit waiting for this release to fix the Configuration Profile bug that caused some users to auto-logout after 30 min. Still to early to tell if the fix is truly a fix. Anyways onto an issue I found. When trying to crea... View more
After upgrading to 10.11 on campus we wanted to find out which machines need our netboot server whitelisted to allow for booting remotely. I put together this quick EA that others may find useful. #!/bin/sh osvers_major=$(sw_vers -productVersion | aw... View more
i have a mac mini running 10.11 server . using it for netboot and file share distribution point. none of my newer (10.10 and above) equipment will netboot to it. i can see it when i boot holding option, but when i choose the netboot server they still... View more
Hello all, Apologies for my greenhorn nature in advance. I'm just finalizing an imaging structure for some new MacBook Airs here at our school. I've made a working image, tested it on older hardware, and it's working flawlessly. However, I ran into t... View more
This is just a heads-up out there for anyone else that comes across this issue. I recently spun up a new instance of the NetSUS appliance from the OVA file, version 4.1.0. I uploaded the exact same NetBoot image I was using on my previous NetSUS (ver... View more
Hi Every, I'm hoping someone may have some ideas on if anything network related could be causing issues with netboot working. I'm setting up a new server at an office that the network isn't setup like our normal offices and I'm suspecting it may be c... View more
My desktop team re-imaged a MacBook Pro 13" (2015) today. The inital NetBoot and Casper Imaging process runs fine with no issues. However, the laptop insists on rebooting to the NetBoot server instead of rebooting to the local drive to compete the im... View more
Hello,I'm new to JAMF Server imaging setup so please forgive me if my question is too basic or is a duplicate.We currently have 1 main JSS in a central site with 3 Mac Minis set up as NetInstall and File Share Distribution Points on 3 different subne... View more