

Create a NetRestore Image: Leverage NetBoot as a boot disk so that you can restore a computer that has been configured over a network.Create a NetInstall Image: Leverage NetBoot as a boot disk so that an image hosted on a server can be used to run a macOS installer.Create a NetBoot Image: Allows Macs to boot over the network to a disk image hosted on a server.There are three options available in System Image Utility (available under the Tools menu of the Server app in OS X Server): The first step to configuring the NetInstall service is to decide what you want the service to do. In the Server app, Apple provides a number of options surrounding the NetInstall service, based on Automator-style which we’ll explore further in this article. Since the very first versions of OS X, the service has been called NetBoot and so the name remains at the command line, but is listed as NetInstall in the Server app. The NetBoot service allows administrators of Apple computers to leverage images hosted on a server to boot computers to a central location and put a new image on them, upgrade them and perform automations based on upgrades and images.
