Diskless Netboot on NetBoot/SUS Appliance

[akanuteh]

I read that Netboot/SUS appliance supports diskless net booting but when i netboot I could not unmount the local hard drive. Are there any ways to getting that shadow file on the net boot server or using RAM for it?

I am running the NetBoot on VMware ESX4.1

[jeremy_spolande]

Did you get an awser here? having same issue. suddenly the appliance isn not much use.

[ryway09]

I am also having this issue, I really do not want to revert back to using Server.app for this.

Please reply!

[winningham_2]

Here is how I fixed my issue...
1) Within my Netboot.nbi directory, I navigated to my NBImageInfo.plist and looked for <key>SupportsDiskless</key>. 2) Using your favorite editor (TextWrangler.app or nano for me), edit that key's value from <false/> to <true/> and save. 3) My changes look like the below:
<key>SupportsDiskless</key> <true/>

Now when I launch Casper Imaging, I am able to let auto run/prestage take off without having issues unmounting the target HD (Macintosh HD).

Does this happen to work for any of you?