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Re: Diskless installs?

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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

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          Re: Diskless installs? Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net> - 2025-08-07 21:04 -0700
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