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To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: diskless(8) 
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 17:45:10 +1000
From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
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On Sun, 7 Apr 1996 18:49:50 -0700 (PDT)  Mike Pritchard wrote:

> Can someone who does diskless booting under FreeBSD please
> review this diskless(8) man page obtained from NetBSD and
> see if it reflects reality, and possibly even add some FreeBSD
> specific info to the man page where appropriate?  Thanks.

This is one of the divergent areas in the two systems, unfortunately,
but since I've been playing with NFS diskless on both *BSD systems
I'll write it up.

There are minor differences in the names of files etc that tftp looks
for, and some more major differences in the interaction between the
boot code and the kernel.

If any kernel hacker cares to update the diskless boot code we could
use the documentation as is, of course!

Regards,

Giles