NetBoot Cannot See internal Hard Drive

I am using a Xserve G5 PowerPC G5, I use this for my netboot server. I am wanting to set this up so that I can run netboot on client machines and still see the local hard drive, however I want to be able to unmount it so that I can reimage that drive if I want or be able to run different tech tools on this. I was able to do this once or twice however I need for this to be a little bit more consistent. The image I am using runs as a diskless image, what I’m thinking is that I want to run this image diskless I just want the hard drive to be available for me to do whatever I need to do with this, any suggestions...

afp_2U2Vgc00040A0000oM0000VU-1.2c000003 on /private/var/netboot (afpfs)
/dev/disk0s2 on /private/var/netboot (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid)
That's very weird. You appear to have both the afp share AND disk0 mounted at /private/var/netboot. That shouldn't be possible.
mrenix wrote:
Ok so then my next question is how do I correct this???
As a workaround, you could try doing a 'mount -u /dev/disk0s2'
How did you create this image (i.e. what was the volume sourced from)? A NetBooted volume perhaps? Though I don't think that's possible... :/

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