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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Diskless FreeBSD, how?
Date: 4 Jul 1996 12:35:42 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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ve@k96.kapitza.ras.ru (Vladimir Eltsov) writes:

>Hello,

>I have FreeBSD 2.1R up and running without problems. Now I want to make
>diskless setup based on this. (Well, almost diskless: booting from floppy
>would be OK). NFS/bootp/tftp/rarp and whatever else nesessary server will 
>be Solaris 2.3 box.

>I would appreciate any advices, directions, pointers to such info.

Check out the Handbook and the FAQ, we're using FreeBSD to run diskless
xterms here, and found all the info we needed in those places.

	David.