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by dragonwriter 1042 days ago
The NeXTcube and NeXTstation did not come in diskless configs.

Diskless may have been an option when NeXT software was detached from NeXT hardware, though.

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I understand that couldn't be purchased without a disk but I kind of remembering booting cubes and slabs from a network file. This was probably 5 years after dropping hardware.
I did find mention of it in the docs! Perhaps it was supported, they just never shipped systems in that configuration.
It’s also part of the directions for running multiple motherboards in a single cube.

https://wiki.preterhuman.net/NeXTcube_running_68030_and_6804...