MacBook Air and ethernet boot?
Hi,
I need to deploy the MacBook Air image of hundereds of machines. But how I can capture and store the image on Mac Server and how to deploy since Air
dosn't has ethernet port.
Any alternative way?
Thank you.
N.A.Malik wrote:
Hi,
I need to deploy the MacBook Air image of hundereds of machines. But how I can capture and store the image on Mac Server and how to deploy since Air
dosn't has ethernet port.
Any alternative way?
Thank you.
A MacBook Air can NetBoot over WiFi, you can also add an Ethernet interface either the Apple USB one, or on the latest MacBook Air via Thunderbolt.
While most/all MacBooks can boot from WiFi you do then have to manually connect to the WiFi network since at the pre-boot stage it obviously has not had a chance to load any setting from the hard disk.
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