16.3. Diskless Operation

Contributed by Martin Renters <martin@FreeBSD.ORG>.

netboot.com/netboot.rom allow you to boot your FreeBSD machine over the network and run FreeBSD without having a disk on your client. Under 2.0 it is now possible to have local swap. Swapping over NFS is also still supported.

Supported Ethernet cards include: Western Digital/SMC 8003, 8013, 8216 and compatibles; NE1000/NE2000 and compatibles (requires recompile)

16.3.1. Setup Instructions

16.3.2. Using Shared / and /usr filesystems

16.3.3. Compiling netboot for specific setups