Files required by diskless client

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Can someone please make known which files are necessary for a diskless operation.i.e files needed by the diskless client.
 
I had a look at the handbook

It is not clear which files are required in the root file system.
 
Most instruction for Diskless FreeBSD are obsolete

The handbook still has the documentation for pre-5.4 FreeBSD. It is pretty misleading for any later version. I posted some detailed instructions for diskless FreeBDS at

http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html

or you could look at the 2nd edition of the book "Absolute PreeBSD". As far as I can tell, all other instructions in print or on the web are for the earlier versions of FreeBSD and won't work with 6.0 or later.

Daniel Feenberg
 
I would go with a normal base distribution and strip it down to my needs. For example I delete unnecessary binaries. But as nobody knows which files you ever might need or not, nobody can give you a strict advice. But you will learn a lot about FreeBSD if you start with an almost empty root filesystem and see what is not working...
 
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