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@@ -103,7 +103,9 @@ practice [that doesn't work at the
moment](http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17341).)
You can provide the subhurd with a network card by passing a `-f` option to
-`boot`.
+`boot`. For instance, if you have a second network card `/dev/eth1` in your
+host hurd, pass `-f eth0=/dev/eth1` to make it appear as device eth0 in the
+subhurd.
Now the subhurd should boot just like a normal Hurd started directly from GRUB,
finally presenting a login prompt. The `boot` program serves as proxy for the