Configuring FreeBSD to run diskless		Oct 15/1994
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1) Find a machine that will be your server.  This machine will require
   enough disk space to hold the FreeBSD 2.0 binaries and have bootp and
   tftp services available.

2) Create a bootptab entry for the diskless FreeBSD machine.

	sample entry:

		diskless:\
        		:ht=ether:\
        		:ha=0000c01f848a:\
        		:sm=255.255.255.0:\
        		:hn:\
        		:ds=192.1.2.3:\
        		:ip=192.1.2.4:\
        		:vm=rfc1048:


3) Create a cfg.x.x.x.x file for your diskless machine.  This is now an
   ASCII file with netboot commands in it.

	sample cfg.x.x.x.x:

		hostname diskless.freebsd.com
		rootfs server.freebsd.com:/var/rootfs/diskless
		swapfs server.freebsd.com:/var/swap/diskless

4) On the server, export the root and swap filesystems to the client.  This
   usually involves putting them in the /etc/exports file and one some
   machines running /usr/etc/exportfs -av

5) Make a BOOTROM by copying netboot.rom to an EPROM, or copy netboot.com to
   a DOS diskette.

6) Boot the diskless machine and run netboot.com if you're using DOS.


Martin Renters				martin@innovus.com