NetInstall Image Creator question

[#1]

Good Morning,

Here is my problem, I just got my first MacBook Pro that was installed with Lion. I reverted back and installed Snow leopard (10.6.8) so I could take advantage of the Thunder Bolt and other drivers. I then created a OS .dmg file to use for the Casper Netinstall Image Creator. I follow the directions and create a new .nbi file. Everything looks good, the .nbi file is in the correct folder, the server sees the new Netboot image and it is enabled.

But when I go to Net Boot a new machine I get the circle with the slash in it and it does not work! I tried this four times and still cant get it to read the new Net Boot image. What did I do wrong?

Thanks
Neal Smith | MAC Systems Engineer | Perrigo IT

[stevewood]

It's not clear from this, but where did you create the NBI from? Did you
run the Netinstall Image Creator utility from the same MacBook Pro or from
another machine?

You need to run everything from the same machine. So when you create the
snapshot using Composer, you need to be running Composer on that machine. Then when creating the NBI, run the utility from that machine.

Steve Wood
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