Re: Diskless installs?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 07:15:13PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> 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

And for UEFI + pxeboot you don't need pxeboot(8) but can use UEFI to load
/usr/mdec/bootx64.efi (or bootia32.efi, but that is unlikely) directly.
Note that the 32 or 64 bit version does not depend on the system you are
going to boot (both versions can do i386 and amd64), but on the UEFI
implementation.

Martin