diff --git a/share/man/man8/diskless.8 b/share/man/man8/diskless.8
index d195b49f7370..9578139f8722 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/diskless.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/diskless.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$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