Re: Diskless installs?

Mouse <[email protected]> Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:36:38 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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

As far as I can see that talks about PXE booting; I didn't see anything
about diskless installation, about how to get from "I have
i386/{INSTALL.*,binary/,installation/}" to "I have a bootable diskless
system".

I can of course unpack sets, but my experience with older versions
leads me to expect that there are various other things that need to be
done after unpacking the sets to produce a bootable system.

> And for UEFI + pxeboot

Mercifully, I do not have to deal with UEFI on these machines.

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