Update this somewhat with respect to NetBSD 1.3 swap features and NFS_BOOT*.

There is more work to do here.
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.\" $NetBSD: diskless.8,v 1.11 1997/06/16 07:50:35 mrg Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: diskless.8,v 1.12 1998/01/26 07:23:20 ross Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Gordon W. Ross, Theo de Raadt
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd October 2, 1994
.Dd January 25, 1998
.Dt DISKLESS 8
.Os NetBSD
.Sh NAME
@ -121,6 +121,15 @@ The procedure used by the kernel is as follows:
.It 3.1
The kernel finds a boot server using the same procedure
as described in steps 2.1 and 2.2 above.
In general, the GENERIC
.Xr config 8
files
for any particular architecture will specify options to activate in
the kernel the
same protocol used by the boot program for that
architecture, however, the kernel can
be compiled to use any of BOOTP, DHCP, or BOOTPARAMS. See
.Xr options 4 .
.It 3.2
The kernel gets the
.Tn NFS
@ -237,11 +246,15 @@ It can be as simple as copying and modifying the server's root
filesystem, or perhaps you need to get those files out of the
standard binary distribution.
.Pp
Note that, unlike SunOS, you need to create a mount point for the
Historically, it has been necessary to create a mount point for the
client's swap:
.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
# mkdir /export/myclient/root/swap
.Ed
In
.Nx
1.3, the swap file can simply be located on an NFS volume and specified
by path name in /etc/fstab.
.Pp
.It 8.
Export the required filesystems in