Basically what this page describes is how to set up your NFS filesystem such that the client will boot far enough to start a telnet daemon and let you log in to further configure the machine.
If your NFS server OS doesn't deal with this gracefully, then you will need to manually create the necessary device files, then run MAKEDEV all once your client is booted to get the standard set of device files. To manually create them, you need to look through your MAKEDEV file and determine which devices you need (probably ethernet, pseudo-terminals, null, stdin, stdout, and stderr). If you will be mounting the miniroot filesystem, you'll probably also need the vnode disk device files. Once you know what the major and minor numbers are for your devices, then you need to man mknod to determine the syntax of your server's mknod command, then make those devices.
Congratulations! Now you need to finish up by setting all of your diskless server daemons to automatically start when your server reboots. Either that, or you need to manually install onto your local hard drive.
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