Recently, iSCSI is getting popular. A diskless installation could support iSCSI,
too.
1) both for NFS and iSCSI boot a special initrd would be needed (loaded with a
kernel via PXE/tftp + parameters, allowing booting off network).
2) iSCSI devices behave essentially like normal block devices, so not much would
be needed to change in d-i after a successful initiator connection is established
3) for NFS, it's even simpler - no partitioning etc.
I even wrote a simple step-by-step guide on how to boot off PXE/iSCSI:
http://wpkg.org/Diskless_/_remote_boot_with_Open-iSCSI
Of course, adopting it in a Debian installer is a completely different thing.
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Tomasz Chmielewski
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