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12.3. Diskless operation

Contributed by Martin Renters <martin@innovus.com> .

netboot.com/netboot.rom allow you to boot your FreeBSD machine over the network and run FreeBSD without having a disk on your client. Under 2.0 it is now possible to have local swap. Swapping over NFS is also still supported.

Supported Ethernet cards include: Western Digital/SMC 8003, 8013, 8216 and compatibles; NE1000/NE2000 and compatibles (requires recompile)

12.3.1. Setup Instructions

12.3.2. Using Shared / and /usr filesystems

12.3.3. Compiling netboot for specific setups


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