Booting with NIM

Review the different ways you can use boot images with NIM.

Booting in maintenance mode
If you need to perform maintenance on a standalone machine that is not part of the NIM environment, the system must be booted from a bootable tape or CD/DVD-ROM.
Performing boot diagnostics on NIM clients
Hardware diagnostics can be performed on all NIM clients using a diagnostic boot image from a NIM server, rather than booting from a diagnostic tape or CD/DVD-ROM.
Initializing and booting a diskless or dataless machine
Use this procedure to configure and boot a machine as a diskless or dataless client in the NIM environment.
Booting over a router on an FDDI
Boot over a router on an Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) only if the router supports all-route broadcast.

Parent topic: Network Installation Management