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I fix Macs for a living and have been using Netbooting for 10 years as my faster, better version of booting a customers Mac off a USB utility disk.

I use NetInstall images too for installing the OS but I primarily use Diskless NetBoot images to diagnose and repair disk problems.

Netboot Mac To Mac

Or what is more often the case, on wifi-only networks, I just plug in directly mac to mac and use DHCP service also running on my laptop.

DHCP is easy enough to replace Im sure, but NetBoot serving doesnt seem as straight forward.

I did some googling but only found solutions that support NetInstall, and not diskless-NetBoot images.

And I tend to work on older computers more than new, so I still need NetBoot for years to come.

I am currently playing around with running 10.11 in a virtual machine on my laptop.

But thats not an ideal solution, id rather run a direct, native server.

I was eyeing DeployStudio but its not clear if that app IS its own NetBoot server, or if it just works with Apples NetBoot server.

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