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 The instructions on how to do a "NetBoot" may differ based on your need. The instructions on how to do a "NetBoot" may differ based on your need.
  
-  * Booting up some device for the first time, with the purpose of installing OpenWRT on said device, by connecting it by a network cable to some server/desktop/laptop serving boot images/OpenWRT images through tftp.  See [[NetBoot]] for details on that, as well as [[Documentation:Userguide:Installation:Installation methods:Netboot]]+  * Booting up some device for the first time, with the purpose of installing OpenWRT on said device, by connecting it by a network cable to some server/desktop/laptop serving boot images/OpenWRT images through tftp.  See [[NetBoot]] for details on that, as well as [[docs:guide-user:installation:installation_methods:netboot]]
   * Booting up a client (laptop/desktop/server), with the purpose of rescuing a broken boot process or installing an OS, by connecting it with wired cables to an OpenWRT router that will serve a rescue or install image over tftp.   * Booting up a client (laptop/desktop/server), with the purpose of rescuing a broken boot process or installing an OS, by connecting it with wired cables to an OpenWRT router that will serve a rescue or install image over tftp.
   * Serving boot images permanently from OpenWRT to some client (laptop/desktop/server) that does not have a boot media (possibly having the root partition on NFS or ramdisk).  See [[:docs:guide-user:services:tftp.pxe-server]]   * Serving boot images permanently from OpenWRT to some client (laptop/desktop/server) that does not have a boot media (possibly having the root partition on NFS or ramdisk).  See [[:docs:guide-user:services:tftp.pxe-server]]
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