Install Second NetBoot Server

[wangl2]

Hi guys,
Can anyone point out KB articles which instructs how to set up a second NetBoot server?
Or can anyone give some suggestions on things I need to be aware of when setting up a second NetBoot server?
Thanks.

[Bukira]

Not sure what you mean, you just install a Netboot server the same way as the first, you can install as many servers as you wish,

cmyers@uclan.ac.uk if you need more help or mean something esle

[donmontalvo]

We've got bunches of NetBoot servers, but certainly no more than one per subnet.

As long as the servers are set up properly (changeip), and the NBI's are set with high enough value to enable [EDIT] load balancing (give NBI value of 4096 to 65535)[/EDIT].

Don

[mm2270]

There's nothing stopping you from creating another Netboot server (or many more), as long as the server has a unique name.
Also, you can create and host as many NBI images from a single OS X Server as you want, but each image has to have a unique ID #, and only one can be designated as the "default" Whichever one that is, doing an"N" key boot up will make the Mac attempt to boot from that image. In cases of older hardware that cannot use the image on your default, it should locate one of the other available NBIs and boot from that, as long as it can. Back in the day when I had a mix of PowerPC and Intel hardware, I had one for each architecture. The Macs always figured out which one to boot from when holding down the N key.

[wangl2]

Thanks criss,
I've got the second NetBoot server working, pretty straight forward. @Don, how do you make sure it's doing Multicast? I really would like that. Last time I was told by JAMF support that Multicast is not supported. It will be very helpful if I can make Multicast working.
@Mike, I did something really silly the other day. I copied the .NBI folder to another NetBoot server, it came up in the image tab but didn't work. It looks like the NetBoot image has to be created from System Image Utility and you can't just copy it. I am curious how do you delete the image you don't want because I can't find a option to remove it. Do you just delete the .NBI folder from Finder?

Thank you everyone!

[donmontalvo]

@wangl2 My apologies, I meant "load balancing", not "multicast"...I updated my post.