Possible to Netboot an ISO?

[bmittleider]

I have been asked to dual boot our MacBooks with OS X 10.6 and Windows 7. Independently I can deploy OS X using DeployStudio and Windows 7 using either WDS or MDT. My hurdle comes with trying to get into MDT LiteTouch from the Mac. I have a DVD of LiteTouch that I can boot to and run and it boots into MDT and works as expected from there. I need to boot that cd from the network as I don't want to load a cd into 100+ MacBooks. Is there any way to netboot that iso of the MDT LiteTouch?

[tarquel]

Couldn't you capture that ISO as a boot wim and add it into WDS somehow as a boot image?

 

[just thinking out loud there, being I dont use WDS natively]

 

Ta.

[plexer]

I boot several iso's from my wds/mdt server.

 

The wds first boot image has been replaced with a syslinux setup.

 

Ben

[plexer]

WDSLINUX - Syslinux Wiki

 

Ben

[tarquel]

Saw you use that in another thread.... might give that a go myself. I'm sure the techies here could benefit from it most likely, although (without looking into it), I'd need it in a Press F12 to initialise the menu [like the current boot into WDS/SCCM does].

 

[bmittleider]

I guess I didn't make my question clear enough. I need to boot a MacBook (or any Intel Mac) but Macs don't do PXE. I can boot the LiteTouch from a CD on the Mac so I was trying to find a way to boot that CD from the network on the Mac. PC's work fine and I don't have any problems there.

[tarquel]

if the Mac's hardware doesnt do PXE, then i dont see how you can aka ur stuck to using a CD or USB pen.

 

Does its BIOS have no options in the network card area to do PXE booting? Theres a setting Dell's have called Boot w/ImageServer instead of PXE, but not sure what thats about [aka havent needed to find out ].

 

Puzzling stuff....

[themightymrp]

Not sure if this will help but there might be something you can mess about with:

 

Getting a Mac to PXE boot from Citrix Provisioning Server

 

Ignoring the Citrix part, this might work

[plexer]

Saw you use that in another thread.... might give that a go myself. I'm sure the techies here could benefit from it most likely, although (without looking into it), I'd need it in a Press F12 to initialise the menu [like the current boot into WDS/SCCM does].

 

 

Tarquel that's how it works for us to select network boot on some machines, if the machine is set to always boot from the network first I use a default option which defaults to boot the hard disk after a configurable timeout.

 

If Macs don't do pxe then you are a bit stuck.

 

Having a quick look at that thread looks possible as you are in effect loading up a pxe bootable disk like we had to do in the old days when pxe wasn't a function of the nic.

 

Ben