Once this downloads, go find it in your Downloads folder and launch it. Click the ‘.zip’ link and grab yourself a copy of the app.ĥ. Scroll down again until you see the ‘Downloads’ section. Yes I could have directed you straight to here, but then you wouldn’t get to see all the information on Ben’s main site!Ĥ.

This will take you to the main GitHub page. Scroll down until you can the big ‘Download now’ button. There’s plenty of detailed information here that is well worth reading, so bookmark this and have a look once we’ve started the NetBoot Image creation.Ģ. Much like these blogs, it tries to make a repetitive, time consuming, and easy to get wrong task, into something that can be produced with a few simple clicks.Īs a long-time user of the Casper version, it felt appropriate to just use the Imagr fork! Step-By-Step: Getting a Copy of AutoImagrNBIįirst things first, we’ve gotta grab a copy of AutoImagrNBI. It isn’t fully automated, but does utilise some nice, user-friendly GUI buttons, as well as being very intuitive in use. Lets deal with this question first why use AutoImagrNBI? Well it is a project that Ben Toms (Mac Mule) has been working on for a while under the AutoCasperNBI banner, to help semi-automate the creation of new NetBoot images. I would strongly recommend using AutoDMG to produce this. Please Note: You will also need a clean, unbooted OS image. I will often be using Repo as shorthand for Repository throughout this series. Editing XML files (or OS X plist files).AutoNBI (such as AutoCasperNBI or AutoImagrNBI).Recommended knowledge (but not required): Part 5 will look at some possible use cases for Imagr with the current popular management tools. Part 4 will cover populating the Imagr repo with content and building a workflow. This part 3 looks to cover the creation of the client NetBoot set. Last time, we ran through the setup of the Web service to use as the Imagr Repo. Hi All, and welcome back to our series on configuring Imagr.

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