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Building a BSD Netboot Server (O'ReillyNet)

In this O'ReillyNet article the author describes one method of installing FreeBSD-5.2.1-Release as a server for diskless clients. "As I've confined myself to a single alternative, it's important to lay out some conditions. First, the method here differs from the canonical version in the way it uses rc files in the FreeBSD distribution. For example, diskless stations won't put their file systems in virtual memory; instead, they will use NFS to mount file systems as read-only (/ and /usr) and read-and-write (/etc and /var)."
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