Netboot - AAMEE

From https://discussions.apple.com/message/12564961 , still having problems creating a image with adobe products installed in it, in that last post Kostas B told me about Adobe's deployment solution (AAMEE), that does create a pkg from the installer, but, every test i've ran so far. Using system image utility to create the image and when i add the created PKG to the Packages and Post-Install Scripts the the Customize Package Selection part does list Adobe Setup, but it's grayed out and Size is 0 bytes, after deploying from it, there isn't any adobe software installed.
The closest i gotten with this is creating another package with Package Maker and add the AAMEE package to Package Maker, SIU does report a size and it's not grayed out with that one, the software is installed, but, when i try to run them i just get a error telling me to re-install.
Has anyone been able to do this? Any other things i should look at, maybe with Composer? Dont have composer and dont really want to pay for it to find out that i'll end up with the same result -.-

Kudos once again to Mr. Zalenka, his knowledge and helpfulness.
You've not stated why you need the image volume to be RO. However, I've never seen a promise nor hint - let alone guarantee - that one can use a RO volume for this purpose.
Does it function correctly from start to finish using your workaround ?
Some NetBoot settings are indeed stored in NetInfo, for example the "DHCP" NetBoot mac-address filtering settings are stored in NetInfo, if you have a look I'd imagine you'll find the rest you're looking for there.

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Thanks again for your feedback. I had forgotten I left the "tftp://" on the IP address. Though, I've tried that multiple ways, starting with IP only. Also, per the bootpd man page (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man8/bootpd.8.html), <allow/> and <deny/> are lists for MAC address allowances and when nothing is defined everything goes through. These are there by default, though I will remove them and see what happens. Also, according to the man page, bootp_enabled enables on all connections when a boolean is set rather than an array. Though I will still change this also and see what happens. The array that comes after the netboot_disabled key is auto-generated by NetInstall when you turn the service on in Server.app.
Essentially, that plist comes from a fresh activation of NetInstall. I deleted the previous .plist, rebooted the server and when I turned on NetInstall, that's what was created, plus my bootp modifications.
All that said, you said that you assumed I started the relay with the 'debug & logging' options enabled. I haven't started the relay in any active sense. So far, I've just been modifying this .plist, and rebooting a bunch of times, but that's where I seem to get lost. Is there a way to actively "start" the relay? I'd love to look at these 'debug & logging' options. As for the 'Startup Disk' prefs on the client Mac, they do not show any significant change. Basically, they just don't see the remote server as a startup option. I have not gleaned any pertinent info from console, though I'm not sure I know what I'm looking for.
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I want to revisit this. You can also see my related posts here:
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