Re: Diskless installs?

Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:15:13 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 11:16:01PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> I'm trying to help a friend who wants to install 10.1 i386.  In aid of
> this, I'm trying to set up to PXE-boot 10.1 diskless system.
> 
> I've got PXE booting working fine for 5.2.  So I started to set up
> 10.1.  But, looking at 10.1's INSTALL.more, I don't see anything at all
> by way of diskless install instructions.  Am I missing something?  Or
> is diskless installation now unsupported?  Surely not....

It is just quite uncommon on i386 and not exactly documented in there.
It is supported, see https://man.netbsd.org/NetBSD-10.1/i386/pxeboot.8

Martin