Introduction (yourplatform-specific), Diskless NetBSD HOW-TO

Client hardware requirements

• Unsupported models

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• Quirky models

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• Bootrom version required

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• Which ethernet devices are supported

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Setting up the client hardware

• Selecting the correct ethernet media

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• Determining your ethernet hardware address

  You will need to determine the ethernet hardware address of your workstation. This is sometimes also known as the "link level address" or MAC. It is a twelve digit hexadecimal number (i.e. it uses 0-9 and A-F for each digit). For example, 08:00:09:09:45:84 is the ethernet address of my workstation.

• Default boot device order

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• Overriding the default boot device order

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How the bootrom starts loading from a diskless server

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A few things worth noting

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Begin setting up your bootloader

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